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Home Texas Scurry County Snyder Greene Springs and Site of Archeological Discoveries
     

Greene Springs and Site of Archeological Discoveries

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US 180, about 12 mi. E of Snyder, Snyder, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 43' 46.36302999996", -100° 41' 57.7550799996"
 
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    Located at a place occupied by man for centuries, these springs compose the first, live (running) water that flows into the South Fork of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River. The waters, which collect in large potholes in a sandstone formation, have produced a constant flow since first discovered by settlers. For many centuries before, they were also visited by Indians. Food grinding holes and petroglyphs (rock carvings) on the sandstone creek walls give evidence of this early use. Since 1964, explorations by the Scurry Chapter, South Plains Archeological Society, have produced many artifacts such as stone knives and scrapers, beads, potsherds, and arrow points. In the nineteenth century, military units under Capt. R. B. Marcy (1849) and Gen. Robert E. Lee (1856) camped at Greene Springs. Somewhat later, buffalo hunters, freighters, and emigrants moving west and north stopped for water at this beautiful place. The springs were named about 1881 for J. I. Jim Greene, a horse rancher who moved here at that time. Greene and his family lived in two dugouts until their first house was built in 1890. Remains of the dugouts are still visible today in a nearby hill. (1968)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Greene Springs and Site of Archeological Discoveries Historical Marker Location Map, Snyder, Texas