OLD TOWN WELL
San Augustine, Texas "'The Cradle of Texas"
Dug to a depth of 27 feet by slave labor in
1860, the well is lined with circular brick used
in that day. The well supplied citizens of this
early day Texas town on the King's Highway
with water for drinking, cooking and fighting
fires. R. N. Stripling, a druggist in San Augus-
tine for 60 years, restored the old well in 1963,
when he cut a hole in the lobby of his store
over the old well.
T. A. Wright Photography, Sulphur Springs, Texas
87958
