Texas Historical Marker

Yates Hotel

Rankin · Upton County · placed 1964 · Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

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Upton County, Texas

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Built as showplace by Ira Yates, for boom crowds drawn by his $15,000,000 gusher of 1926, on dry ranch with which he was "stuck" in swap off of a general store. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1964

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