Historical Marker
Frye-Puryear Home
Historical marker location:
CR 22, 1.5 miles from SH 152, Wheeler, Texas
( From Wheeler, take S.H. 152 about 7.5 miles east; turn north onto county road 22 about 1.5 miles to private ranch driveway on east side of road)
Marker installed: 1964
Built 1884. Native stone, windows and lumber hauled 200 miles south from Dodge City, by Henry Frye, 1877 settler who had bought land of buffalo hunter and dugout dweller Dick Bussell. Had first wood floors in county. Mail came out from Mobeetie to Frye Post Office here, 1897-1909. (1964).