Marker Inscription
From Canyon, Hwy 87N to West Texas A&M Equistrian Center, located just south of Buffalo Stadium. Go through locked gate cemetery just west of Hwy 87
Cemetery
T-Anchor Ranch
Walk among the Texans who came before.
About this site
T-Anchor Ranch is a cemetery in Canyon, Randall County. It is one of 6 cemeteries documented in Randall County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 49 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 35.0060, -101.9154 near Canyon. The nearest cataloged historic site is Col. John I. Gregg 1872 Battle Site (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Randall County, Buffalo Courts, and Panhandle-Plains Museum.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7381000703. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
This small burial ground near Canyon served the T Anchor Ranch, one of the pioneering ranches of the Texas Panhandle. The ranch began in the fall of 1877 when Leigh and Walter Dyer and Samuel Coleman drove about 400 cattle to Spring Draw and built a log cabin, and by 1880-81 its cowboys had fenced 240,000 acres in the area's first use of barbed wire. When Randall County organized in 1889, six of its first officers were T Anchor employees.
Sources: historic.onegenealogytrails.com
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