Site of Dozier Schoolhouse

Dozier grew on land that had belonged to the Rocking Chair Ranch until the ranch broke up. After 1900 more farm families moved into the north of the county; C. H. Helvey built the first general store in 1904, and Mrs. J. S. Caperton became the first postmistress the same year. School bonds in 1913 paid for a larger building, and a $6,000 brick school followed in 1929. In 1930 Dozier had three general stores, two gins, a church, a barbershop, a garage and sixty people. The community counted thirty in 2000.

What the plaque says

Site of Dozier Schoolhouse In 1893, the men of the newly-settled Dozier community built a one-room schoolhouse to serve the educational needs of the children of that town and the surrounding farming and ranching area. Seigniora Russell (Laune) served as the first schoolteacher. The school building, also used for church and community activities, was moved within this vicinity three times before it was torn down and rebuilt in 1913. The rural school consolidated with Samnorwood in 1934, although an elementary school remained at Dozier until 1941. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tower Station and U-Drop Inn — 12 mi
  Shamrock's 1936 Conoco station and cafe at the corner of Route 66 and US-83, sketched in the dirt with a nail, named by a schoolboy and saved by the town.
• Devil's Rope and Old Route 66 Museum — 18 mi
  Barbed wire and the Texas road in McLean's old brassiere factory: the fence that closed the open range, from the salesmen who sold it to the Panhandle ranches it divided.
• Phillips 66 Station, McLean — 19 mi
  A 1929 cottage-style Phillips 66 station on First Street in McLean, the town I-40 went around last and whose Route 66 business district stayed much as it was.

More markers nearby

• Nicholson School — 6.1 mi
• Site of Lutie School — 7.7 mi
• The Red River Plunge of Bonnie and Clyde — 10 mi
• Rocking Chair "Ranche" (1883-1893) — 10 mi