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Why Stop In Motley County???

May 31, 2006 by admin

Motley County is located in the Caprock Foothills on the eastern side of the Texas High Plains. It shares the Quitaque Peaks with neighboring Floyd County. The three peaks overlook the “Valley of Tears” where Comancheros from New Mexico traded with the Comanche and Kiowa people for horses and captive whites stolen on the ranches of Central Texas.
Another landmark is the Roaring Springs Waterfall, an oasis where Native Americans camped for eons of time. It is now a 500-acre playground where golfing, swimming, camping and picnicking take place.
The Motley County Courthouse fronts on Dundee Avenue, named for Dundee, Scotland, in honor of the former owners of the gigantic Matador Ranch. The early settlers came to the county to work for the matador and other area ranchers and stayed to settle the county.
Wildlife abounds in the county with an abundance of white-tailed deer, mule dear, turkey, bob-white quail and wild hogs. Hunting lodges are available for the hunters.
The community of Roaring Springs hosts the bi-county (Motley and Dickens) Old Settlers Reunion and Rodeo which has been observed annually since the 1920s.
The communities in the county participate in the “70-mile garage sale” each May which crosses three county lines, Dickens, Motley and Hall.
The town of Matador hosts the “Boondockers” each spring. Members of this dirt bike club from West Texas race their bikes along Hackberry Draw within the city limits of Matador.
In the Flomot area of the county, the Burleson Memorial Roping and the Washington Cattle Company Bluegrass Fest are held each spring.
The town of Matador is home to the 1930s Bob Oil Well (a forerunner to a modern-day truck stop), the Motley County Museum, and the Motley County Library.
County Judge Ed Smith

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