Details for Tee Pee City
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5345012939
Data
| Marker Number | 12939 |
| Atlas Number | 5345012939 |
| Marker Title | Tee Pee City |
| Index Entry | Tee Pee City |
| Address | US 62/70 |
| City | Matador |
| County | Motley |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 348495 |
| UTM Northing | 3764160 |
| Subject Codes | settlements; ghost towns |
| Marker Year | 1936 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | roadside park, 10 mi. E of Matador and E of CR 247 |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 1936 Texas Centennial historical marker |
| Marker Text | Camp of early buffalo hunters. Only settlement west of Henrietta, north of Fort Griffin and south of Fort Elliott (now Mobeetie) 1875-1880. Headquarters of Texas Rangers under Captain G.W. Arrington at intervals, 1879-1881. Abandoned about 1886. First white child born in Motley county was Nora Cooper born here in 1882. S.N. Armstrong, pioneer merchant, buried near this site. Erected by the State of Texas 1936 |