People had been aware of the Lampasas springs long before the town was built around them. A legend has been told of St. Juan, who led an expedition from San Antonio in 1735; it was a very dry year, and there was no water at all in the Colorado River. His party had split up to search for water, and everyone was about to die of thirst, when the frustrated priest threw his crucifix to the ground and cursed the inhospitable land. Water came bubbling...

“There’s a magic about this place. Its whisperings have been carved in granite for two hundred million years. Human kind has made it home for millennia. This is the heart of Texas Hill Country. It is solid. It is stable. It is a bastion of eternal beauty.”