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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZFS_pitchfork-ranch_Dickens-TX.html
Irish-born Jerry Savage established an open range ranch at this site about 1879. In 1881, St. Louis businessman Eugene F. Williams and Texas cattleman Dan B. Gardner purchased the ranch and in 1883 joined forces with landholder Sam Lazarus to form…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z8C_dickens-county_Dickens-TX.html
Formed from Young and Bexar
Territories
Created August 21, 1876
Organized April 15, 1903
Dickens, County Seat
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z68_dickens-cemetery_Dickens-TX.html
The only cemetery to serve the town of Dickens. This graveyard began in 1891, the same year the town was founded. Mrs. C. F. Jones, wife of pioneer settler and town barber C. F. Jones, died in 1891 and was buried by her husband at the foot of a hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z67_dickens-springs_Dickens-TX.html
At one time, water covered this area. Sandstone, the prominent rock around this site, is porous, causing exposed strata at canyon rims to form a natural drainage outlet for upland aquifers, making possible the existence of these springs. Situated …