Roping Horses for Sale near Fossil, OR

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Quarter Horse Stallion
Color - Bone - Disposition - Conformation - Barred Sky Line a. k. a. "Cott..
Dayville, Oregon
Gray
Quarter Horse
Stallion
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Dayville, OR
OR
$500
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About Fossil, OR

The Fossil post office was established on February 28, 1876, on Thomas Benton Hoover's ranch along Hoover Creek. He named the place Fossil after finding fossils in a clay-like rock formation on his ranch. In 1881, Hoover and Thomas Watson opened a store near the confluence of Butte and Cottonwood creeks and moved the post office to the store. When the city was incorporated in 1891, Hoover became the first mayor. After creating Wheeler County in 1899, the Oregon Legislature chose Fossil as the temporary county seat.