Bringing Legends to Life Dickens County, Texas Our Heritage       Our Heart       Our Home TXGenWeb Genealogy     USGenWeb Genealogy             TABLE OF CONTENTS            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 Vote for your Favorite County The Mike Basham Memorial TXGenWeb Award was initiated to recognize the efforts of the county sponsors providing outstanding resources and assistance to county visitors. If you would like to nominate any county for this award - make your nomination on this form. 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. Obituary Records of Dickens County There are places we all come from — deep-rooty places— that make us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again— and can go home again. Not to recover home, no.    But to santify memory.   Though hard it is to explain, the old legend is correct....there is treasure there.   Robert Fulghum 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. Neighboring Counties: [ Floyd ] [ Motley ] [ Cottle ] [Crosby ] [ DICKENS] [ King ] [ Garza ] [ Kent ] [Stonewall] Master List of All Texas Counties Map Based List of All Texas Counties 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 Community Network Spur Chamber of Commerce Hwy 70 Association Annual Garage Sale Calendar of Events   Check out events and add your FAMILY or CLASS REUNIONS. HOT OFF THE PRESS! 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 Go to USGenWeb.           Go to TXGenWeb. USGenWeb Archives Index Dickens County Archives    Wanted Dead or Alive Query Board Message Boards at GenForum How to Contribute Information to this site: If you have family history information that you would like to send from your computer to mine, please use the following address: TXDICKEN-admin@rootsweb.com ^. .^ \/ Happy Huntin´             Don't Spur the Horse if you don't know where you're going. 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