Historical Marker
Willow Springs
Historical marker location:
SH 18, S of Kermit, Kermit, Texas
( From Kermit, take Hwy. 18 about 12 mile S.)
Marker installed: 1964
6.6 miles east in Sand Hills. Water hole vital to Comanche, explorer. "Judge" A. Hayes found charred remains of 40-wagon train massacre in 1901. Ox bows, human bones, flintlocks, other relics of the ill fated and unidentified group in Sul Ross State College Museum at Alpine. (1964).