Dickens Springs

Dickens, Dickens County, Texas

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My father, Walter James (Jim) Stephenson used to tell me of the times he would ride his horse to the Dickens Springs when he was a young boy in the late 1920s and early 1930s. I've (Jenk Stephenson) been there a few times over the years, but never went there with my father, unfortunately. I've never taken any pictures until my trip of October 2021, almost 100 years after my father went there as a boy. I can't say how much it has changed, but the water still flows.

The water still flows
A few days before my 76th birthday I returned to the Springs to get a few pictures.	The sign that is along the side of the road - on the north side - 6292	The plaque that is placed there-6293
A plaque you can read - 6294	Along side the highway entrance - 6295	Once you travel along the dirt road you arrive at the dirt parking lot to a small picnic area. - 6287
The dugout plaque - 6288	At the end of the parking lot you find the historic remains of a dugout. - 6290	Looking inside the dugout. - 6289
Near the Tee Pee picnic take are the stairs that decend to the springs. - 6286	There are three sets of stairs down the hill to get to the springs. - 6285	More stairs. - 6284
The last stairs. - 6283	Back on the highway towards Guthrie is this roadside park	According to my father this water was running when he was a small boy--more than 100 years as of 4-22-2023