Welcome to Dickens County . . . Its Land and People.
This is beautiful ranch land that is rich in wonderful history. I hope you will find this site helpful in your search for your ancestors and find the charm that Dickens County possesses. We are very proud to be sponsoring Dickens County and this site will be continually updated. Any information beneficial to this site is welcome, please e-mail Linda Fox Hughes
If you would like to sponsor a county in the TXGenWeb, whether you are a resident or not, please contact our State Coordinator Shirley Cullum. This site is proud to be a part of the USGenWeb Project; if we have violated copyright laws, privacy laws, or redneck laws, please contact us and it will be corrected.

Its Land...

• History of Dickens County
• Maps and Land Survey   Location of Dickens in Texas; Map of entire County, showing population and altitude. Link to a very detailed map of Dickens showing communities and canyons.

Its People

• Letter of Welcome   Historical Commission Chairman Sends "Greetings"
• Online Roundup   Links to Personal Webpages of Family Histories with a Dickens Brand.
• Remembering Pearl Harbor   Story of Survivor.
• Honored Dickens Heroes   Those who gave their life for our Country.

• County Officials   Past through Present.
• Duck Creek in the 1800s   A journal by Jo A.P. Dickson in 1877 on Duck Creek.
• Dickens County Its Land and People HISTORY BOOK
• Our Wonderful Contributors

Its Places

• Dickens County Courthouse   addresses, information on records, History and Building of Courthouse.
• County Jail   Picture, history, story of jailbreak.
• Dickens Historical Museum
• Cemeteries of Dickens County - "Boothill"  
         Cemeteries of the county, histories, burial listings including obituaries and biographies.

• City Folk   Towns and Communities of Dickens County
• Landmarks
• Historical Markers of Dickens County   Link to Pictures of most.
• Dickens Springs - Pictures
• Schools of Dickens County

Its Records

• Rootsweb Websites for Dickens County     County Resources with Search Engine.
• County Lookup Volunteers   Volunteers with tracking information.
• County Resources   Places to look, people to see.
• Dickens County Bookends   Bibliographies of Dickens County.
• Newspapers of Dickens County, TX   Name of paper, years published and microfilm dates.

• Marriage Records
• Census Records   Neighbors lived 20 to 30 miles apart.
• Birth Records
• Death Records    
• Dickens Military   Veteran Tribute and Service Records of WW I and II, Korea and Vietnam

• Postoffices and Postmasters of Dickens County, Texas
• Southwest Collection Records of County   A partial list of what I have found there so far.
• Trivia on County   Facts on first and last happenings in Dickens County.
• Microfilm Rolls Available
• Search WPA Life Histories in Texas
• Rootsweb Social Security Death Index

• Spur Homecoming set October 16-18, 2008
• Community Network
• Spur Chamber of Commerce
• Hwy 70 Association
• Calendar of Events   Check out events and add your FAMILY or CLASS REUNIONS.

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DICKENS COUNTY HISTORICAL MAPS NOW AVAILABLE. Send name and address of where to send map (donations happily accepted) to:

Dickens County Historical Commission

c/o Dickens County

P.O. Box 179

Dickens, TX 79229

OR

call Harry Bob Martin 806-294-5401

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