Historical Marker
T-Anchor Ranch Headquarters
Historical marker location:
4th Ave and SH 217, Canyon, Texas
( Located outside Panhandle Plains Museum (4th Avenue) on eastern grounds, Canyon.)
Marker installed: 1967
Built by Leigh R. Dyer, 1877, of logs cut from Palo Duro Canyon. Oldest surviving house in Texas Panhandle. Dyer did first Panhandle farming. Sold 1878, to Gunter, Summerfield and Munson. Became center of area ranching and development.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1967.
The discovery of oil in 1901 near Beaumont, Texas, sparked an oil boom that transformed the state's economy and led to the rise of the modern petroleum industry.