When the homesteaders settled southwest Spink County in the eighteen eighties, they found a very unusual rock on the highest hill in the area. The exact location was in section nine of Buffalo Township, ten and one half miles southwest of the new town of Tulare. A person could stand on this second highest hill in Spink County and look north ten miles and see the slightly higher hill, Bald Mountain. That spot in section twenty-one of Exline Township is seven and one half miles southwest of Redfield. The two hills are unusual in the generally flat land of Spink County. While standing on the hill where the strange rock was found you could look south and see Wolf Creek empty into Turtle Creek.
This remarkable stone has grooved markings on two sides that have remained in existence for a very long time. The historians and archeologists who have looked at this stone cannot place the time the markings took place but agreed it happened before the existing Indian tribes were in this area.
Eventually the owner of the high hill pasture land where the rock rested helped move the twenty-six hundred pound rock about five miles east to his sister and brother-in-law's farm. It stood in that Garfield Township farm yard until permission was given to move it to Tulare.
