Explore Daingerfield State Park: A Historical and Natural Gem
Published: 1976
Updated: September 14, 2025
Daingerfield State Park is off State Highway 49 two miles east of Daingerfield in south central Morris County in Northeast Texas. The park is situated within an area that was a center of iron manufacture where factories made guns and other metal products during the Civil War. Timber, also in demand, resulted in deforestation. Private owners deeded more than 500 acres to the state in 1935, and the park was a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) project. From 1935 to 1938 CCC Company 2891 developed the park, and CCC Company 1801 (an all-Black unit) took over work after that until 1940. Crews replanted native trees, such as pines, oaks, and maples, in the park and built an earthen dam to impound an eighty-acre lake, known as Little Pine Lake. They constructed cabins, a boathouse, swimming beach, roads, steps, picnic areas, a pier, and trails.
Popular activities at the park include hiking, birding, fishing, swimming, and picnicking. The flora is mixed pine and hardwood forest. Park facilities include fifty-eight campsites, three cabins, a lodge, picnic sites and playground, hiking trials, a boat ramp, and a park store. Major renovations occurred in 2011.
Bibliography:
Cynthia Brandimarte with Angela Reed, Texas State Parks and the CCC: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013). Daingerfield State Park, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/daingerfield), accessed September 13, 2025. Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Wright Steely, The Civilian Conservation Corps in Texas State Parks (Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1986).
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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Laurie E. Jasinski, “Daingerfield State Park,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/daingerfield-state-recreation-area.
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