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Tee Pee City

Matador · Motley County · placed 1936

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Motley County, Texas

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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

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