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Big Spring State Park

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1936, Henry Newton, landscape architect; Joseph Dodge. 1 Scenic Dr.

The 382-acre Big Spring State Park occupies part of the Cap Rock Escarpment within the city limits of Big Spring. It was the location of the natural spring from which Big Spring takes its name. Because of the presence of water, this site was an oasis in this treeless dry land and attracted indigenous and European-American occupation. Between 1934 and 1936, the Civilian Conservation Corps Company No. 1857 built the three-mile-long Scenic Drive loop road, which ascends a two- hundred-foot-high bluff, as well as the park’s entrance piers, a concession building, a shelter house, the park keeper’s house, other facilities, and landscape elements from limestone quarried on the site.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

West Texas Veterans Administration Health Care System (Veterans Administration Hospital)
Runnels Academy (Big Spring High School)
Potton House
Howard County Courthouse
Petroleum Building

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Big Spring State Park", [Big Spring, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SL18.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 397-397.

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