​Site of
John and Maggie
Weatherly Half-Dugout Site
​(1 Mile West)

Marker Text: ​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. (1978)

Marker No: 4818

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 35.656872, -101.406067

Location: Frank Phillips Junior College, 1303 West Roosevelt Street, Borger