Sulphur Springs, TX

Sulphur Springs is the county seat of Hopkins County in northeast Texas. In 1857, the city set aside land for Bright Star University, a reminder of its early civic ambitions. Today the public library's collections, including the Leo St. Clair Music Box Collection and Sinclair World War II Collection, give the town some unusually specific cultural texture. Sulphur Springs feels like a classic northeast Texas county seat: courthouse square, schools, churches, agriculture nearby, and a few memorable surprises tucked into ordinary civic life.