Hughes' Springs

Moses Hughes reached Lampasas after a long road. Born in South Carolina in 1819, he left Talladega County, Alabama, in 1834 with about seventy relatives bound for Texas, and the family settled near Washington in January 1835. In the Runaway Scrape of 1836 they fled as far as the Neches River with one small mare. In 1837 he and his parents were charter members of the first Baptist church west of the Trinity. He married Hannah Berry in 1840, and in 1856 he built a two-story stone house seven miles west of Lampasas.

What the plaque says

Hughes' Springs One of the Lampasas sulphur springs named in honor of first settler in this vicinity in 1853, Moses Hughes, whose wife regained health through its waters.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 1.8 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Colorado Bend State Park — 20 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.
• Inks Lake State Park — 26 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 27 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.

More markers nearby

• First United Methodist Church of Lampasas — 0.9 mi
• Lampasas County — 1.3 mi
• Lampasas County, C.S.A. — 1.3 mi
• Hanna Springs — 1.3 mi