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'''The White Deer Land Museum''', located at 112 South Cuyler Street in the center of the small city of Pampa, [[Texas]], is a two-story red brick building which was the third location of the former White Deer Land Company. The building has its original tin ceilings, tile floors, and [[furniture]].Over the years, the museum has expaned into adjacent buildings with new connecting corridors.<ref name=waymarking/>

'''The White Deer Land Museum''', is located in a two-story red brick building at 112 South Cuyler Street in the center of the small city of Pampa, [[Texas]]. The [[museum]] occupies the third location (1916) of the former White Deer Land Company. The building has its original tin ceilings, tile floors, and [[furniture]]. Over the years, the museum has expaned into adjacent buildings with new connecting corridors.<ref name=waymarking/>

The White Land Deer Company was organized from the bankrupt Francklyn Land and Cattle Company, the chief stockholder of which was Archibald Philip Primrose (1847-1929), the fifth Earl of Roseberry, the prime minister of [[England]] from 1894 to 1895.. At the time in the 1870s and 1880s, British investors were speculating heavily in lands and cattle in Texas and much of the American West.. The White Deer Company was managed by [[T. D. Hobart]], George Tyng (c. 1839-1906), Cecil Payne Buckler (1885-1967), and Montagu K. Brown (1878-1964). The four managers surveyed the holdings, laid out farms and ranches, sank wells, and built hundreds of miles of [[barbed wire]] fencing. White Deer owned land equal in area to the state of [[Rhode Island]], 631,000 acres in Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, and Roberts counties. In the [[drought]] of 1910, the company  made available to local farmers $100,000 in loans to buy wheat seed. Upon the discovery of [[oil]] on White Deer land in 1921, the firm retained half of the mineral rights on land sold. The company was liquidated in 1957. This building also formerly housed a Masonic lodge, post office, medical and dental offices, and has accommodated religious services as well.<ref name=waymarking>{{cite web|url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM730G|title=White Deer Land Museum, Pampa, Texas|publisher=Waymarking.com|accessdate=January 27, 2020}}</ref>

The White Land Deer Company was organized from the bankrupt Francklyn Land and Cattle Company, the chief stockholder of which was Archibald Philip Primrose (1847-1929), the fifth Earl of Roseberry, the prime minister of [[England]] from 1894 to 1895.. At the time in the 1870s and 1880s, British investors were speculating heavily in lands and cattle in Texas and much of the American West.. The White Deer Company was managed by [[T. D. Hobart]], George Tyng (c. 1839-1906), Cecil Payne Buckler (1885-1967), and Montagu K. Brown (1878-1964). The four managers surveyed the holdings, laid out farms and ranches, sank wells, and built hundreds of miles of [[barbed wire]] fencing. White Deer owned land equal in area to the state of [[Rhode Island]], 631,000 acres in Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, and Roberts counties. In the [[drought]] of 1910, the company  made available to local farmers $100,000 in loans to buy wheat seed. Upon the discovery of [[oil]] on White Deer land in 1921, the firm retained half of the mineral rights on land sold. The company was liquidated in 1957. This building also formerly housed a Masonic lodge, post office, medical and dental offices, and has accommodated religious services as well.<ref name=waymarking>{{cite web|url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM730G|title=White Deer Land Museum, Pampa, Texas|publisher=Waymarking.com|accessdate=January 27, 2020}}</ref>