Mackenzie Scout Trail

The chapter that set this granite belonged to a statewide society with a habit of marking roads. The Texas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in 1900 with five chapters, and in 1920 it marked the Old San Antonio Road with granite stones every five miles along 600 miles of the route. It took part in the Texas Centennial, the year this stone went up, and during World War II helped with plasma drives and fund-raising for the Red Cross and the USO. By 1992 it had 17,000 members in 184 chapters.

What the plaque says

Mackenzie Scout Trail This marks one route of the Mackenzie Scout Trail extending from Camp Supply, Crosby County to Fort Sumner, New Mexico and used by the Army, 1872-1875, by buffalo hunters, 1876-1878, and by cattlemen 1878 until the fencing of the range. Erected by Nancy Anderson Chapter, N.S.D.A.R. 1936. This block of granite is from the wall that encloses the grave of Nancy Anderson, 1750-1827, near Chester, S.C. (1964)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Buddy Holly Center — 0.4 mi
  The city's museum of Buddy Holly and West Texas music in a 1928 railway depot, with the house where the Crickets worked on That'll Be the Day moved next door.
• American Windmill Museum — 1.2 mi
  Lubbock's park of restored water-pumping windmills and early wind chargers, more than 70 of them turning outdoors and the rare ones under roof, with a megawatt-era turbine overhead.
• National Ranching Heritage Center — 2.3 mi
  A Texas Tech outdoor museum where ranch houses, barns, windmills and a depot from across the ranching country were moved one by one onto a single park beside the campus.
• Lubbock Lake Landmark — 3.7 mi
  A bend of Yellow House Draw on Lubbock's north edge where digging has found nearly 12,000 years of people on the Southern High Plains, layer on layer, from Clovis to the 1880s.

More markers nearby

• Colonel T. S. Lubbock and Texas in the Civil War — steps away
• Lubbock County — steps away
• Congressman George Mahon — 0.4 mi
• First Methodist Church of Lubbock — 0.4 mi