Balmorhea, Texas
Balmorhea was etablished by a firm of land promoters in 1906. The town site was in the center of a 14,000-acre tract watered by the famous San Solomon Springs. Today Balmorhea remains a center of irrigated farming.
Balmorhea was etablished by a firm of land promoters in 1906. The town site was in the center of a 14,000-acre tract watered by the famous San Solomon Springs. Today Balmorhea remains a center of irrigated farming.
At historic San Solomon Springs, facilities include motel with meeting room, camping and trailer sites, rest rooms with hot showers, shaded picnic areas, and playground. Huge walled swimming pool is fed by the springs at rate of 22-26 million gallons daily. With 62,000
Balmorhea, TX State ParksDedicated to life and legends of frontier Southwest, museum includes rustic structure that was early trading post serving bot...
Guided tours of homestead built in 1875 as replica of earlier home destroyed in 1868 flood. Was political and social center o...
Once among largest springs in Texas, now site of Olympic-sized swimming pool....
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