Painted Rocks Historical Site Inc.

The Painted Rocks Historical Site, Inc. (PRHS) was established in 2025 to protect and preserve 1,500 pictographs and petroglyphs covering a thousand-foot expanse of a limestone bluff fronting the Concho River in Concho County. Beyond stewardship, our mission is to share the site with current and future generations, as well as provide research and educational opportunities to students, scholars, and to those with historical connections to the land. 

PRHS is building upon the stewardship ethos of the Campbell family, which began when Fred and Cora Campbell invited noted researchers, Forrest and Lula Kirkland, to record the rock art in the mid-1930s. Since then, the family has opened the site to curious visitors, archaeologists, rock art researchers, and descendant communities. Last year, over 400 visitors toured the site. 

Most notably, PRHS serves as a dynamic entry point into the larger (his)story of the Concho River valley. Indigenous rock art, historical graffiti, and archaeological deposits preserved on the grounds offer a tangible lens through which visitors can understand the broader forces that shaped our history – the presence of Indigenous peoples, Spanish colonialism, German and Anglo immigration, frontier expansion, and numerous military campaigns.