Details for Frye-Puryear Home
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5483002076
Data
Marker Number | 2076 |
Atlas Number | 5483002076 |
Marker Title | Frye-Puryear Home |
Index Entry | Frye-Puryear Home |
Address | CR 22 |
City | Wheeler |
County | Wheeler |
UTM Zone | 14 |
UTM Easting | 396631 |
UTM Northing | 3926800 |
Subject Codes | houses, residential buildings |
Marker Year | 1964 |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | Yes |
Marker Location | Off CR 22 on private property |
Private Property | Yes |
Marker Condition | |
Marker Size | Medallion and Plate |
Marker Text | 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. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1964 |