You Are Here - Fairfield Lake State Park (Springfield) - Fairfield, TX
N 31° 46.888 W 096° 03.395
14R E 778733 N 3519985
A useful "You are here" is at the restroom in the Springfield camping area at Fairfield Lake State Park, Fairfield, TX.
Waymark Code: WM16AXH
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2022
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Fairfield Lake State Park is a beautiful 1460 acre park northeast of Fairfield, TX. Opportunities for fun include swimming, boating, fishing, hiking, biking, horseback riding (on your own horse), picnicking, camping, and there's even an interesting Historic Texas Cemetery dating to the 1850s.
Placed by Texas Parks & Wildlife, this sign is a map of the park, with a Legend provided for identification of useful services and features, and some insets with helpful tips for visitors. Those who pay close attention to the message boards at some of these restrooms can find a little bit of history about who lived here, what they did, and what conditions were like before the lake replaced Big Brown Creek and the Trinity River. Here, one can read about the bootlegging operations that were popular during Prohibition, and as to the campsite's name, "Springfield" was Limestone county's first county seat, in the area of Fort Parker a county away to the southwest. There was a road through this area -- some of it still visible -- that was called the "Old Springfield Road", and it became "old" when Springfield burned and was replaced by Groesbeck.