Cuthbert Traditional Cache
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Small camo covered container. As this is West Texas, please watch
for snakes.
Cuthbert died shortly after World War II. It was born in 1890 and
its parents were a Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Bozeman. The Bozemans were the
first residents in the area that was about fifteen miles northwest
of Colorado City. Mr. Bozeman built a home, a store and a wagon
yard to serve the teamsters. A year later, Bozeman secured a post
office and named it Cuthbert after a friend, Thomas Cuthbertson.
Bozeman's wife, Ellen, was the first postmistress. As the years
went by, people started moving into the area and a community began
to form with most residents engaging in farming and cattle raising.
In 1920, an oil well was drilled about a mile north of Cuthbert
that was the beginning of commercial oil production in the Permian
Basin, one of the largest oil fields in the United States. After
World War II, rural roads were improved in the area making it
unnecessary for area residents to drive over dirt and otherwise
unimproved roads to Cuthbert for mail and groceries with Colorado
City only fifteen minutes away. That proved to be fatal for
Cuthbert. Today, the town does not have a single inhabitant.
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