Marker Number |
14862 |
Atlas Number |
5507014862 |
Marker Title |
Yellowhouse Canyon |
Index Entry |
Yellowhouse Canyon |
Address |
Cesar E. Chavez Dr. |
City |
Lubbock |
County |
Lubbock |
UTM Zone |
14 |
UTM Easting |
236860 |
UTM Northing |
3720607 |
Subject Codes |
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Marker Year |
1936 |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
Marker Location |
Mackenzie Park, Cesar E. Chavez Dr. southeast of I-27 service road, east side of the road near Canyon Run Dog Park |
Private Property |
No |
Marker Condition |
In Situ |
Marker Size |
1936 Texas Centennial |
Marker Text |
Known to Spanish explorers of the 17th and 18th centuries - Described by Albert Pike who visited the region in 1832 - The last battle in Lubbock County between white buffalo hunters and the red men who had called the plains their own occurred on this site in 1877 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 |