Details for Renderbrook Ranch
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5335004242
Data
| Marker Number | 4242 |
| Atlas Number | 5335004242 |
| Marker Title | Renderbrook Ranch |
| Index Entry | Renderbrook Ranch |
| Address | SH 163 |
| City | Westbrook |
| County | Mitchell |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 314364 |
| UTM Northing | 3556961 |
| Subject Codes | ranches/ranching; Native Americans |
| Marker Year | 1965 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | Yes |
| Marker Location | From Westbrook take SH 163 south to Spade Ranch gate. Marker is on private property. RTHL medallion for ranch headquarters 1964, marker with inscription 1965. |
| Private Property | Yes |
| Marker Condition | |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | Founded in buffalo and Indian days of 1870's by Taylor Barr. Owned 1882-1889 by D.H. and J.W. Snyder. They built "White House" headquarters; sold ranch, 1889, to Isaac L. Ellwood, an inventor of barbed wire, in DeKalb, Illinois. Ellwood paid in wire for Spade cattle from Donley County, to stock ranch. Added Sterling and Coke lands to original 130,000 acres; to distinguish this from range bought 1902 near Lubbock, called this Renderbrook (from name of spring where Indians shot a U.S. Cavalry officer in the 1870's). Ellwood heirs still run Spade brand on 2 ranches. (1965) |