Eagle Springs Stage Stand

Travelers named the spring before they praised it. In 1849 Robert S. Neighbors called it Puerto de la Cola del Águila, Haven of the Eagle Tail. A year later Lt. S. G. French found that the water "did not run, but merely oozed out of the ground" into holes dug to collect it, and in 1867 Maj. Edward Meyer reported "a limited supply of not very good water." Mescalero Apaches used the spring too; in 1854 they took the stock of a wagon train camped here. By 1976 the flow was about a third of a pint a second.

What the plaque says

Eagle Springs Stage Stand A station (1854-1882) for the stage coaches and wagon trains of the Overland-Chihuahua trails, which linked the East to the pioneer West, brought heartening mail and passengers, and supplies, and quickened the life of this remote region, then far out on the lonely fringes of frontier civilization. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hotel El Capitan — 16 mi
  Henry Trost's Spanish Revival hotel of 1930 in Van Horn, named for the cliff at the end of the Guadalupe Mountains, restored and back in business as an inn.
• Hudspeth County Courthouse — 20 mi
  The only courthouse in Texas built entirely of adobe, in the Sierra Blanca railroad town where Southern Pacific and Texas and Pacific crews met in 1881.

More markers nearby

• Culberson County — 12 mi
• San Antonio-California Trail — 12 mi
• County Named for Texas Confederate Colonel David B. Culberson — 16 mi
• Van Horn Wells — 19 mi