Site of Town of Cuthbert

The Handbook of Texas says D. T. Bozeman built a wagonyard as well as his store, that the post office came in 1891 with his wife, Ellen, as postmistress, and that the first school lasted only four years. In 1904 Bozeman put a telephone switchboard in his home, and Ellen served as operator. In 1936 Cuthbert had a post office, two businesses and twenty-five people, and its school was consolidated with Colorado City's. Better rural roads after World War II drew its trade to Colorado City, and by 1974 only a cemetery and scattered farms remained.

What the plaque says

Founded in 1890 by D.T. Bozeman, teacher and merchant, on a main wagon road, 16 miles northwest of Colorado (City). Town was named for Bozeman's neighbor, T.T. Cuthbertson, first postmaster was Mrs. Bozeman. A good well by Bozeman's general store attracted freighters. First Cuthbert school opened in 1893. First rural telephone line in county was built in 1898 from Bozeman's home to Colorado (City). In 1907, Cuthbert boasted Bozeman's store, G.W. Womack's general store, a gin, blacksmith shop, barber shop, church, and school. Post office closed, 1959. (1969)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heart of West Texas Museum — 12 mi
  Colorado City's museum in a restored downtown house, from a mammoth dug up at Lake Champion in 2001 to an Ice Age bison and the wartime telegrams sent to a local family.
• Lake Colorado City State Park — 12 mi
  A mesquite-plains park on a lake built in 1949 to cool a power plant, southwest of Colorado City, where controlled burns are bringing back the grassland and 300 bird species pass through.
• Scurry County Museum — 15 mi
  Snyder's county museum on the Western Texas College campus, with the rifle used to shoot the white buffalo, an 1878 chuckwagon and the millionth barrel of the Canyon Reef oil boom.
• Hotel Settles — 30 mi
  Big Spring's fifteen-story hotel of 1930, built on ranch oil money, once the tallest building between Fort Worth and El Paso, empty and roosted in by pigeons for decades and now restored.

More markers nearby

• Coleman Ranch Field Discovery Well — 1.6 mi
• Ira — 7.1 mi
• Site of Westbrook School and Church — 9.5 mi
• Dunn — 10 mi