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566 Buffalo-Ebony Cemetery From Goldthwaite, take FM 574 about 20 miles west to county road. Follow county road north about 1 mile. According to oral tradition, this cemetery originated when two sheep herders camping in the area died and were buried here. The oldest marked grave, ...

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14521 Caradan Cemetery FM 575 N After the Civil War families settled in this area, originally called Lookout. A.F. Smith deeded two acres of land in 1889 for a public school. Arthur ... 17851 Center City Baptist Church Center City community, NE corner of CR 249 and CR 250 In 1875, Reverend Noah Turner Byars, a former blacksmith who served with Sam Houston during the Texas Revolution, founded this church and served ... 6034 Center City Cemetery Center City community, S side US 84 110 feet W of CR 332. Cemetery is about 0.5 mi. SW. (One half-mile southwest) The Center City Cemetery began with the burials in 1874 of Julia M. Bishop and M.E. Hughes, the adult and infant daughters ... 783 Center City Community Center City community, S side US 84 100 feet W of CR 332 Settled in 1854 by the families of William Jenkins and David Morris (1811-89), this community was called "Hughes Store" after W.C. Hughes and his ... 14776 Center City United Methodist Church Center City community, NE corner US 84 and CR 249 In the early 1870s, shortly after the founding of Center City (first known as Hughes Store), a circuit riding preacher ministered in the area. Charter ... 1031 Confederate Veterans Memorial of Mills County Highway 183, Courthouse Square, Goldthwaite. C.S.A. 1861-1865 James Thomas Guthrie Pvt 13th TX CAV Co. E David Morris Frontier Protection Wm. D Rudd Co. D 45th Reg Inf Daniel H. Trent Co. E, ...

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1160 Dam and Well Goldthwaite City Park, north part of the park close to SH 16 and Commercial Dr. When the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad reached this area in 1885, company officials platted the town of Goldthwaite and built a reservoir to ... 12362 Democrat Cemetery 14 miles north of Goldwaithe on SH 16, then 10 miles west on FM 218 Although settlement of this area dates to 1878, this graveyard was not established until the turn of the 20th century. The earliest documented grave ... 16752 Duren Cemetery 22 CR 128 In 1876, Philip David Duren bought 390.5 acres here and built a log home. He later brought his family, including newborn daughter Willie Lee, from ...

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1754 First Methodist Church of Goldthwaite 1011 Hutchings Street, (1312 5th Street) Goldthwaite Methodists trace their history to the mid-1850s, when circuit-riding preachers began traveling to the area to minister to early permanent ...

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2199 Goldthwaite Eagle 5th and Fisher, across from courthouse square. In 1885 William H. Thompson (1842-1896) started a weekly newspaper, "The Mountaineer", which closed but was reestablished in 1894. He sold it in ... 13152 Goldthwaite Memorial Cemetery 1 mi. southwest of Goldthwaite Goldthwaite Memorial Cemetery In 1888, three local men bought land for use as a cemetery; the first burial was that of Houston Roberts. The Odd Fellows ...

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13253 Hamilton-Soules House 32 S FM 1047 Thomas Edgar Hamilton (1878-1933) moved with his family to Mills County in the early 1890s. In 1898, he wed Nettie Ethaline Sargent (1879-1950), ...

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12157 Jackson Massacre 14.2 mi. W of Goldthwaite on FM 574; 3.3 mi. NW of FM 573 Settlers Moses and Lydia Jackson set out one morning in October of 1858 with four of their seven children to spend the day with friends. As they ... 2823 John Williams Williams Ranch Cemetery, from Mullin, take County Road SE about 4 miles. (February 6, 1804-August 4, 1871) One of the earliest permanent settlers of Brown and Mills counties, North Carolinian John Williams migrated to ...

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3388 Mills County Mills County Courthouse grounds Formed from Brown, Comanche, Hamilton and Lampasas counties. Created March 15, 1887. Organized August 30, 1887. Named in honor of John T. Mills, ... 12916 Mills County Courthouse Courthouse, 1011 Fourth Street Mills County Courthouse Mills County was formed in 1887, and citizens built a county jail in Goldthwaite the following year. In 1889, Goldthwaite ... 3389 Mills County Jail Highway 183, Courthouse Square, Goldthwaite Mills County Jail, 1888. First structure built by newly organized county, before county seat was chosen. 16895 Mills County State Bank on corner of Parker and Fourth Streets MILLS COUNTY EXPERIENCED MUCH GROWTH FROM 1887 TO 1917 AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GULF, COLORADO, AND SANTA FE RAILWAY IN THE REGION. AS GOLDTHWAITE ... 17497 Mohler Cemetery S 370 FM 3023 Ambrose Bull bought part of the Moses Hughes tract in Nov. 1859 and was among the first settlers in the Bulls Springs community. War of 1812 veteran ... 12158 Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery 15 mi. NE of Goldthwaite on FM 2005 to FM 575N on CR 237 Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church was organized in July 1899 with nineteen charter members in the community of North Bennett. The new church adopted ... 3532 Mullin United Methodist Church RR 5735, 1 block south of intersection of US 84 and RR 5735, Mullin. Charles Mullins, for whom this town was later named, came here with cattle in 1857. By tradition, a Methodist circuit rider preached at his home. ...

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3606 North Brown Cemetery From Goldthwaite, take SH 16 about 5 miles north, then go west on local road 1 mile, then north 1 mile on second local road. Named for creek followed by homeseekers, this burial ground originated about 1857 when death struck at a nearby campsite. In the 1870s North Brown ...

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4047 Pleasant Grove Cemetery From Goldthwaite, take Highway 572 SE about 12 miles, then go south on county road about 1 mile. Named for the live oaks banking Simms Creek, Pleasant Grove was settled by Civil War veterans from both the North and South. The farm of Tom Berry ...

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12159 Ratler, Texas and the Renfro Dam FM 574, 10 mi. W. of Goldthwaite Mary (Robins) and J. W. Jones built a dam of live oak logs and sandstone on the Colorado River about 8 miles south of this site between 1876 and ... 22686 Regency Suspension Bridge CR (near extinct town of Regency, 4.4 mi. S) This area's first Colorado River bridge was built in 1903 between Mills and San Saba counties to serve ... 14584 Rural Communities of Western Mills County int of FM 574 and FM 573 Pioneers migrated to western Mills county to take advantage of the area’s rich soil and ample water supply. The community of Regency, (originally ...

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4556 San Saba Peak Roadside park 6 mi. SE of Goldthwaite on NE side of US 183. Marker is mounted on stone base. Rising to an altitude of 1,712 feet, San Saba Peak is an oblong promontory with rimrock edges on the north and west sides. The Spanish governor of ... 12683 Site of Chesser Valley Community 3.9 mi. SW of Mullin on FM 575, at intersection with Williams Ranch Road Near this site is the Chesser Valley, named for early settler John Dan Chesser, whose home became the focal point of a small rural community by the ...

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5391 The Old Town Well, Goldthwaite Courthouse Square, Highway 183, Goldthwaite. Mr. Peyton died from poison fumes in digging this well; Ben Cox was also overcome; Deed H. Mayer rescued Mr. Cox and brought up Mr. Peyton's body; ... 22685 The Regency Suspension Bridge SH 16 (near extinct town of Regency, 22 mi. SW) This area's first Colorado River bridge was at Regency, on Mills-San Saba county line. Built 1903, it served ... 5426 The Settlement of Williams Ranch US 84, Mullin. Once a prominent frontier town, Williams Ranch grew up around the homestead of cattleman John Williams (1804-1871), who came to this area in 1855. ...

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17308 Williams Ranch Cemetery 4.5 miles SE of Mullin THIS HISTORIC CEMETERY OVERLOOKS THE NATURAL SPRINGS THAT WERE ONCE THE FRONTIER SETTLEMENT KNOWN AS WILLIAMS RANCH ON LAND GRANTED TO WILLIAM W. ...

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5955 Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church 1374 SH 16 N In the 1870s and 1880s many settlers of German ancestry began arriving in this area. In 1889, under the leadership of The Rev. R. Seils, Zion Evangelical ...