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DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas
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DRIPPING SPRINGS, TEXAS:
Dripping Springs, on U.S. Highway 290
twenty-five miles west of Austin in northern
Hays County, emerged as a community center
before the
Civil War. The first settler in the area
is thought to have been a man named Fawcett,
who arrived about 1849. Other families began
farming the valleys of Little Barton and
Onion creeks in the early 1850s, and in 1857
Dripping Springs opened what became a
permanent post office. By 1884 the town
supported several businesses, including a
steam gristmill and cotton gin, and a
population of 130. Education was provided by
a public school and by the Dripping Springs
Academy, which opened in 1881. The
settlement's location on the Austin to
Fredericksburg road made it a durable
community center, and despite a population
decline during the
Great Depression, Dripping Springs
developed into the principal town in
northern Hays County during the twentieth
century.
Trivia
Johnny Cash wrote
and recorded a song
called "Down at Drippin'
Springs."
Dripping Springs is
home to
singer/songwriter Sam
Beam (Iron
& Wine)
Dripping Springs is
home to author and
member of the Dixie Duo
Jessica Colla.
Dripping Springs is
the birthplace of E. D.
Hill, a former host of
"Fox and Friends" on the
Fox News Network.
The name "Dripping
Springs" is actually a
misnomer; the town's
spring clearly maintains
a steady trickle.
