Pole Trailer

Manufactured by the Spencer Trailer Company in Augusta, Kansas. This was used to haul tubing (the narrow pipe located on the trailer) or casing (wider pipe). Tubing and casing is the various pipe that is used inside the hole.

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Model K Star Spudder

This is a Model K Star Drilling Machine, also called a "spudder".

Drilling machines such as this one were used for two purposes:

1. To drill the initial hole for a rotary-drilled well.

2. To drill a complete oil well at shallow depth ...

Ending Slavery in Washington

Civil War to Civil Rights

To your right at the end of Indiana Avenue is Washington's first City Hall/Courthouse. Across Sixth Street is the H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, a successor to the original courthouse.

The Old City Hall/Courthouse opened ...

Big Flat – Big Bar

This plaque is between the two sites first mined in ’49. The rush came in 1850, when John Weaver & Co. ditched water from Lil’ Weaver Creek, now Big Bar Creek taking out $100,000 in gold at Big Flat. Elizabeth ...

Black Mountain College

Est. in 1933; closed 1956.

Experimental school with

emphasis on fine arts &

progressive education.

Campus was 3 mi. NW.

Marker is on W State Street (U.S. 70) near W College Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Portales

Population 9940 - Elevation 4004 ft.

Portales derives its name from the porch-like appearance of a cave entrance at nearby Portales Springs. It developed as a major peanut producing region in the early twentieth century, after the Pecos Valley Railroad opened ...

Blackwater Draw

Blackwater Draw consists of several important archaeological sites that have yielded much information about the big-game hunting way of life. Some of the animals that were hunted, like the mammoth, are long extinct. Eastern New Mexico University's Blackwater Draw Museum ...

Junction City Centennial

1896 – 1996

[Upper Marker:]

On this site in 1852 a group of early settlers formed a mining community. The called it Milltown after the Seeley and Dowles water powered sawmill located near the mouth of Canyon Creek. In September 1861 this ...

Weaverville Basin Gold Discovery Site

In the bend of Rich Gulch near its junction with Ash Hollow five miners worked the winter of 1849-50, with the use of a log hollowed out to make a rocker. The rich pocket yielded five pounds of gold per ...

Clovis

Population 31,194 -- Elevation 4,260

During the 1700s and early 1800s, Comanche Indian buffalo hunters used trails that passed near here. In 1907 the Santa Fe Railroad established Clovis to serve as the eastern terminal of the Belen Cutoff, which would ...