The Start of Sipe Springs
The article details the founding of Sipe Springs in 1873 by Cal Watkins J J Smith M W Hall and Rev James Buckmaster forming a town site company two miles south of the present site squatters held rights only and the name was decided after a Worcester dictionary showed Sipe with two dots equals soap or seep and spelling was set as Sipe Sprngs a correction protested by old timers over mispronunciation by a tenderfoot and a porter scene is noted.
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Rockey Stewart
Sipe Springs
Cal Watkins
J. J. Smith
M W. Hall
James Buckmaster
Cal Wat
Kins
Worcester
Sipe
Deserted Town of Sipe Springs Remembered
Carolyn Burdette Sipe chronicles Sipe Springs once thriving oil boom town now ghost town. Discusses 1918 19 boom growth 1922 fire losses banks shops and rail line. Notes late 1920s population figures and gradual abandonment blamed on water water shortage and oil decline.
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Carolyn Burdette
Sipe Springs
History of Sipe Springs Town and Boom Years
Gay Cagle recounts Sipe Springs origins from 1872 when M H Hall opened a store and built a cottage. The town grew with a dozen structures, five schools, hotels, banks, churches, and a palace drug store until a 1911 fire. Oil boomed 1919–1920, then decline left Sipe Springs a ghost town remembered by residents.
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Gay Cagle
M. H. Hall
Sipe Springs
Hall
Callahan
Concho Counties
Foster
Elias Ploll Sr
Palace Drug Store
Sipe Springs The Years After The Boom
A portrait of Sipe Springs once a West Texas trade and milling hub peaking around 1919 1920 with a population near 1000 and a Bank. The town declined after overexpansion bank failures oilfield layoffs and a 1922 fire before fading away as residents left and rebuilding stalled.
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Wendi Gibson
Sipe Springs
West Texas
State Bank of
Ghost town echo of Sipe Springs fading away
In 1919 1920 Sipe Springs boomed then collapsed after an oil surge and big fire. Now a single store gas station church and cemetery mark the town once a milling trading hub with 1000 to 1600 residents. Three widows an old maid and a couple run the store as residents recall a bustling past.
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Teresa French
Sipe Spings
Clerry
Widder
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