Draw Well of the Weatherly dugout - Borger, TX
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YoSam.
N 35° 39.378 W 101° 24.436
14S E 282080 N 3948497
Stone prairie low slung pioneer house, called a dug-out out on the prairie.
Waymark Code: WMP2DT
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/16/2015
Views: 5
County of well and marker: Hutchinson County
Marker Erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Date Marker Erected: 1978
Location of Marker: 1303 W. Roosevelt St., west campus, next to stone building behind chain-link fence, Frank Phillips Junior College, Borger
Well is now dry, was told by security I needed a permit from the schools President to enter the fence. I went to the admin. office and was told NO. Unless I lived in the county or had a kid in school no one was allowed to visit the dug-out.
Historical plaque text:
Half Dugout Site of
John and Maggie Weatherly
This structure is a copy of a half-dugout erected in 1898 near this location by John (1865-1944) and Maggie Weatherly (1875-1968). The High Plains offered no native stone or timber for building materials. Instead, settlers lived in dugouts, built into the thick sod. Well-insulated, the dugouts were cool in summer and warm in winter. When building supplies became available, more elegant homes were erected. The Weatherlys were pioneer ranchers and civic leaders. Borger was founded on their original homestead after oil was discovered here.
If you visit this site I wish you more luck and a better repore with the security and employees of this junior college. I could not get permission to ge inside the fence, and therefore no close up, nor additional photos.