Hot Springs
a.k.a. Boguillas Hot Springs
W of Rio Grande Village, Big Bend National Park, TX"Hot Springs" or "Boquillas Hot Springs," as they were at one time known, had apparently been known to the Indians and other inhabitants of the region for some time before J. O. Langford acquired the place in 1909. Reputed to have medicinal qualities, this was just the place Langford, a man of poor health, was seeking. He developed the area as a health and recreational resort and continued to operate it as such until 1942 and the establishment of Big Bend National Park, with the exception of a 14year period between 1912 and 1927 when border unrest made the area unsafe. The influx of tourists initially attracted to the Big Bend area by Langford's resort was to a great degree responsible for the movement to establish the area as a National Park. Langford's establishment was the first such resort to attract visitors in sizeable numbers. As an early and important center of tourism for an area that soon became a major National Park, Hot Springs have local significance.
Local significance of the site:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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