"The Buried City"

Later archaeologists read the site differently from its discoverers. David T. Hughes, who dug here from 1985, argued that the villagers were not Antelope Creek people but a separate society, perhaps Caddoan-speaking and related to the Wichita or Pawnee. They farmed Wolf Creek's floodplain and higher plots where brush diversions spread the rain, and Ogallala springs kept the creek running all year. Hughes suggested groups of seven or eight houses stayed about twenty years before the people moved along the creek, and that drought or newcomers ended the villages around 1500. The land is private, with no public route.

What the plaque says

"The Buried City" In 1907, Dr. T. L. Eyerly, Floyd V. Studer and other archaeologists discovered here "The Buried City." These pueblo ruins were built by the Panhandle Pueblo Indians who were agriculturists, stone house builders, pottery and basket makers. Dr. Warren K. Moorehead partially excavated this ruin in 1919-1920. Some archaeologists and historians agree that the well-built stone houses were in ruins when Coronado explored this region in 1541. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of the Plains — 15 mi
  Perryton's four-acre museum of the wheat country at the top of Texas, with an 1899 depot, five historic buildings and a life-size Hank the Cowdog, whose author grew up here.
• Canadian River Wagon Bridge — 26 mi
  The longest pin-connected bridge in Texas, 3,255 feet of Parker trusses across the Canadian River at Canadian, built for wagons in 1916 and reopened as a footpath in 2000.
• River Valley Pioneer Museum — 27 mi
  The Hemphill County museum in Canadian, a Santa Fe division town of 1887 on the river breaks that held one of the first commercial rodeos in Texas and voted itself dry in 1903.
• The Citadelle Art Museum — 27 mi
  A 1910 Baptist church saved from demolition in 1977, made into a family home filled with art, and given to Canadian in 2009 as one of the Panhandle's few art museums.

More markers nearby

• Site of the Trading Post — 2.5 mi
• Ochiltree Cemetery — 9.0 mi
• Ochiltree Townsite — 9.0 mi
• Sheriff James Sidney Talley — 9.2 mi