SIPE SPRINGS

Above: A Sipe Spring street scene from a postcard mailed in De Leon in 1910.

Below:  The State Bank of Sipe Springs closed toward the end of the oil boom due at least in part with the embezzlement of funds as the owner departed town. 

Above left:  An unidentified Sipe Springs store.  Lower:  An architect’s rendering of the Sipe Spring school .  Right:  A hotel.

Left: King and Leonard’s Garage and Service during the oil boom.  A theater is on the right with the arched entrance.

Left:  The first oil rig arrives in Sipe Springs.  Center:  A stock certificate of the Sipe-Tex Oil Company.   Right:  A biplane in Sipe Springs during the oil boom.

Right: The old Masonic Hall before it burned in the late 1980s.  It is pictured to the right of JJ Blair’s in 1919 during the oil boom.

Sipe Springs is one of the oldest communities in Comanche County. It was named for the seeping springs in the area.  The community has moved three times in its history.   This is believed to be the second location sometime around 1900.