Historical Marker
Medicine Mound Depot, 1910
Historical marker location:
1802 US 287, Quanah, Texas
( Highway 287, Quanah at intersection of Highway 282 (SH 6) & Highway 297-Quanah)
Marker installed: 1964
Built by Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway as passenger and freight station, in area where Chief Quanah Parker's Comanches prayed and rolled in gypsum, believing it was healing dust.
Later, Santa Fe Station. Site of holdups and shooting. Has bullet holes, but escaped a 1935 fire that burned entire town. Retired from use, 1959; was moved via Highway 287 to its present site.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1964.