Browder Springs

Before the spring served a city, it served a family. Lucy Jane Browder and her sons Isham and Edward each held Peters Colony land, and Isham moved his household out to Browder Springs in 1852. The Dallas Pioneer Association says the brothers hauled freight from Jefferson, including lumber for Dallas houses. Edward became a surveyor and the county's first district clerk, serving from 1850 to 1864, and later the first secretary of the county pioneer association. Isham joined the Eighteenth Texas Cavalry and died in October 1862, a month after returning home.

What the plaque says

Browder Springs Named for Browder family originally owning this site. Springs played key role in founding of Dallas and were principal source of water before a pumping system with city mains was installed. During drouth of 1909-10, springs were reopened to supply a million gallons of water a day. 1968

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — steps away
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 1.2 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 1.2 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 1.5 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• Cherokees in Dallas — steps away
• City of Dallas — 0.5 mi
• Crockett, John McClannahan — 0.6 mi
• Nicholas Henry Darnell — 0.6 mi