Once known as Langford Cove, the settlement that would become Evant was established by Asa Langford and his family in 1855. Langford was the postmaster of the first post office, 'Cove', established in 1876. The town's history took a significant turn when Evan T. Brooks, an Alabama man, purchased land from Langford in the late 1870s. In 1881, Brooks donated 60 acres for the town's development, and by 1884, the community was renamed Evant in his honor. Over the years, Evant grew, reaching a peak population of 550 in the 1950s, and was formally incorporated in the mid-1970s with a population of 540.

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The town's name, Evant, was chosen in honor of Evan T. Brooks, who played a pivotal role in its development. In the late 1870s, Brooks purchased land from the original settler, Asa Langford, and later donated 60 acres for the establishment of the town. The community, which was previously known as Langford Cove, changed its name to Evant in the 1880s as a tribute to Brooks' contribution.

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The founding of Evant dates back to 1855 when Asa Langford and his family settled in what was then called Langford Cove. It wasn't until the late 1870s and early 1880s, with the involvement of Evan T. Brooks, that the town began to take shape. Brooks purchased land from Langford and donated 60 acres for the town's development, leading to the renaming of the community to Evant in his honor by 1884.

Gholson, Benjamin F.

1860

(Nov. 17, 1842-April 3, 1932) Born in Falls County. Son of early Texas settlers Albert G. and Elidia Anderson Gholson. After 1858-1859 service with Texas Rangers, he re-enlisted in company under Capt. J. M. Smith, and in 1860 aided in the rescue of Cynthia Ann Parker, kidnapped by Comanche Indians in 1836. Served in 2nd Regiment, Texas Cavalry in Civil War. Married Jane Adaline Langford. Prominent stockman, was active in the Texas Ex-Rangers Association.

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Evant

1855

The town of Evant traces its history to an earlier settlement in this area. Langford Cove, founded in 1855 by Asa Langford (1820-1870), was located adjacent to and partly within the south boundary of the present town of Evant. A United States Post Office was authorized in 1876 under the name Cove. Evan T. Brooks and his family arrived in the area in 1876. In 1881 Brooks platted a townsite which was filed in Hamilton County records as Brooksville. The same plat appeared in Coryell County records in 1884 as Evant, so named from a combination of Brooks' first name and middle initial. Streets and blocks were carefully planned, including a town square. The Cove post office was transferred to Evant and renamed in 1885. In 1878 a one-room plank schoolhouse was erected on land donated by Asa Langford in 1875. It was replaced in 1888 by a stone structure which, with additions and modifications, served Evant Independent School District until 1976. Over the years, businesses were established and churches and community groups were organized. The citizens of Evant voted to incorporate in an election held in December 1976. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

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First United Methodist Church of Evant

1874

Organized by the Rev. Joe Price between 1874 and 1876, in Langford's Cove community (later renamed Evant), the Evant Methodist Episcopal Church began with seven charter members: Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Winters, Mr. and Mrs. G.T. Winters, Mr. and Mrs. Edington, and Miss Elam. After a short time, the Rev. Mr. Price returned to his home in Mississippi. The congregation continued to hold prayer meetings led by W.C. Winters and occasional visiting pastors, including M.M. Weaver and W.H. Carr of nearby Levita, the Rev. Dr. Perry of Hamilton, the Rev. Bill Davenport and the Rev. Osgood Shook. First meeting in members' homes and under brush arbors, they eventually began to hold prayer meetings in the small local schoolhouse. In the spring of 1879 a camp meeting was held at Cottonwood Springs. New families began moving into the area, including the Murehead family from Rhode Island and the Thomas family from Wales, Great Britain. They began a Sunday school and invited area young people to join them in Methodist worship. As they grew in numbers, they joined the Methodist church. In 1884, the Baptists built the first church building in the community. The Methodists shared the structure with other denominations until 1905, when they erected their own building. It was moved across the street in 1937 due to highway development. The Methodist Church in the nearby Vista community joined with Evant Methodist in 1949 and they dedicated a new brick building that year in a ceremony led by the presiding bishop. The congregation's growth reached its 20th century peak in 1963 with 201 members. The Evant United Methodist Church continues in the traditions of its founders. (2000)

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Hamilton - 2025 Texas 2A Division I state football champion

2025

Hamilton defeated Joaquin 21-7 for the 2025 Texas 2A Division I state football championship.

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Moore, Billy [Tiny]

1937

Billy "Tiny" Moore, mandolinist and fiddler, was born on May 12, 1920, in Hamilton County, Texas. Moore's mother and grandfather taught him piano, fiddle, and guitar during his childhood. As an adolescent he backed his mother in her band and played with a group of friends known as the Clod Hoppers. After hearing Leo Raley play one of the first electric mandolins, Moore adopted the instrument. His first electric mandolin was built by Raymond Jones, a friend who lived in Port Arthur, Texas. Given the nickname “Tiny” because of his large size, Moore performed professionally with a group called the Port Arthur Jubileers. Beginning in 1937, Moore traveled the South and played mandolin in several bands. In Mobile, Alabama, he played in Lloyd Ellis's Jazz Trio, and in Rayne, Louisiana, he accompanied a Cajun band called the Rainbow Ramblers. He moved to Houston before 1943 and played in the Crustene Ranch Gang band, which regularly appeared on local radio stations. Moore enlisted in the United States Army Air Force and served from 1943 to 1945. After the war he joined western swing legend Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. In 1946 and 1947 Wills and the Playboys recorded the Tiffany Transcriptions , in which Moore played electric mandolin and fiddle, and for which he arranged the music. He also managed the Wills Point Ballroom in Sacramento, California, which was owned by Bob Wills. In 1950 Moore took a break from performing with Wills's traveling band and married Dean McKinney (of the McKinney Sisters), another member of the Wills band. They had three children. After his departure from the Texas Playboys, Moore settled in the Sacramento area and formed a western swing band with Bob's younger brother, Billy Jack Wills. The band played regularly at the Wills Point Ballroom and on local radio station KFRK. Moore arranged most of the music and played fiddle and his newly-built Bigsby five-string electric mandolin. Billy Jack played drums, and a young Vance Terry played steel guitar in the ensemble. In 1954 the band broke up, but Moore continued to play with Bob and Billy Jack Wills at local venues throughout the decade. From 1956 to 1962 he also hosted and regularly performed on Ranger Roy and the Anna Banana Show , a locally televised children's program. In 1961 Moore opened the Tiny Moore Music Center, where he gave lessons on mandolin, fiddle, and guitar. He focused on teaching throughout much of the 1960s and wrote an instructional book called Mandolin Method . Moore played as a guest musician on numerous albums and was a member of Merle Haggard's band in the mid-1970s. In 1970 he recorded with Haggard on the album Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World , a salute to Bob Wills. In 1972 Moore recorded his first solo album, Tiny Moore Music . He regularly played with former members of the Playboys, such as Eldon Shamblin and Vance Terry, and frequently performed at music contests. In 1973 he played on Bob Wills's final recording, For the Last Time . Moore paired with fellow mandolinist Jethro Burns (of Homer and Jethro fame) and recorded a twin mandolin album called Back to Back in 1980. Throughout Moore's career, jazz musicians heavily influenced him, especially the early work of legendary Texas jazz guitarist Charlie Christian . Moore taught dozens of guitarists and was a major influence on musicians such as Ken Fraizer and Bob Murrell. He frequented nightclubs from Texas to California to stay in touch with the jazz music scene. He had a fatal heart attack onstage while playing with the Cadillac Band at a club in Jackpot, Nevada, on December 15, 1987. He was inducted into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 1995 along with his wife Dean McKinney Moore. In 1999 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, honored as an early influence on the rock genre. Moore is also listed as a Music Legend in the Museum of the Gulf Coast’s Music Hall of Fame in Port Arthur. The

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Hamilton County

1854

Hamilton County, in Central Texas, is bounded on the north by Comanche, Erath, and Johnson counties, on the west by Mills County, and on the south by Lampasas and Coryell counties. Its center lies at 31°47' north latitude and 98°13' west longitude, 114 miles north of Austin. The county was named for James Hamilton , a South Carolina governor who invested some $216,000 in gold to finance the Texas struggle for independence from Mexico. It covers 844 square miles wooded with pecan, live oak, elm, cedar, and post oak. Soils range from the sandy loams and sands and the dark, limy, crumbly, clays of the prairie, to the rich alluvial bottoms of the river valleys. The elevation of the county ranges between 900 and 1,600 feet above sea level. Except for the northwestern part, which lies in the Western Cross Timbers region, the county is rolling prairie marked by numerous flat-topped buttes that rise abruptly to stand on the divides between the county's many streams. The county is drained by the Leon, Lampasas, and Bosque rivers. Many of its deep, wide stream valleys are bordered by limestone cliffs that abut the intervening flat divides. The average annual rainfall is 29.61 inches; the average minimum temperature in January is 34° F, and the average maximum in July is 96°. The growing season lasts 239 days. The agriculture of the local economy earns about $31 million yearly, 90 percent of which derives from cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, and poultry. Crops include sorghums, small grains, cotton, hay, and pecans; irrigated land totals about 5,000 acres. The county's agribusiness also includes more than forty dairies. The manufacture of garments, wooden molding, steel products, and other goods earns the county about $5 million annually. Hamilton County has limited and declining oil production; production was about 5,000 barrels in 1982 and 2,067 in 1990. Major roads include U.S Highway 281 (north to south) and State highways 36 (northwest to southeast) and 22 (east to west). Though the extent of prehistoric settlement in the area that is now Hamilton County is unclear, at least five Indian burial mounds have been found on the banks of Cowhouse Creek, about 3½ miles from Pottsville. Waco and Tawakoni Indians lived on the Brazos and Trinity rivers some sixty miles to the east and northeast; they traded with the Tonkawas, a nomadic tribe that moved around Central Texas. Comanches also traveled through the Hamilton County area. The first permanent White settlers in the area were probably Robert Carter and his family, who arrived in 1854. By 1855 a number of others, including James Rice, Henry Standefer, Frederic Bookerman, William Beauchamp, and Asa Langford had settled there. Rice and Standefer opened a store that soon developed into the town of Hamilton; meanwhile, Langford built a sawmill, a blacksmith shop, a store, and a gristmill to form a settlement that came to be known as Langford's Cove (present-day Evant). Population grew rather rapidly, and in 1856 settlers circulated a petition asking that a new county be formed to accommodate their needs. Later that year the Texas legislature approved the request and marked off Hamilton County from land previously assigned to Comanche, Bosque, and Lampasas counties. Two years later a five-man commission selected the town of Hamilton to be the county seat. By 1860, when the county's first post office was established at the hamlet of Hico, the county included several small but well-established communities; that year the census found 489 residents. Geography helped to determine the pattern of settlement, as pioneers built along the wooded streams that crossed the rolling prairie, leaving the intervening divides to remain open range. According to the 1860 agricultural census only 290 acres of the county's 1,800 acres of farmland was improved; the wheat harvest was about 1,050 bushels that year, and corn production was 1,900 bushels. Though most of the county's early residents e

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Evant, TX
Once known as Langford Cove, the settlement that would become Evant was established by Asa Langford and his family in 1855. Langford was the postmaster of the first post office, 'Cove', established in 1876. The town's…
First United Methodist Church of Evant · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker
Organized by the Rev. Joe Price between 1874 and 1876, in Langford's Cove community (later renamed Evant), the Evant Methodist Episcopal Church began with seven charter members: Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Winters, Mr. and Mrs.…
Evant · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker
The town of Evant traces its history to an earlier settlement in this area. Langford Cove, founded in 1855 by Asa Langford (1820-1870), was located adjacent to and partly within the south boundary of the present town of…
Gholson, Benjamin F. · 1.0 mi · Historical Marker
(Nov. 17, 1842-April 3, 1932) Born in Falls County. Son of early Texas settlers Albert G. and Elidia Anderson Gholson. After 1858-1859 service with Texas Rangers, he re-enlisted in company under Capt. J. M. Smith, and…
The Highway Name That Took Seventy Years to Make Legal · 4.7 mi
Every mile of U S Highway Two Eighty One inside Texas is the American Legion Memorial Highway, and the name is much older than the law behind it. On April thirtieth, nineteen thirty five, the Texas Highway Commission…
The Town Split in Two · 7.5 mi
Drive through Evant and at some point you cross a county line without knowing it. Evant started out as a western Coryell County town, and as it grew it spread north over the boundary into Hamilton County — today roughly…
West, Dr. Wm. Madison · 8.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton County, folks. Keep an eye out for West Point Cemetery – it's named after Dr. William Madison West. He came to this area in 1874 after studying medicine by apprenticeship back in…
Pearl Baptist Church · 8.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Pearl Baptist Church. Organized in 1884 as Bee House Missionary Baptist Church, it moved here in 1889 and was renamed Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, before eventually becoming Pearl…
Pearl Methodist Church · 8.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Pearl, the site of the Pearl Methodist Church. Organized in the winter of 1875-76, the congregation worshipped in a schoolhouse until they received land in 1890 to build their own sanctuary. The…
Hurst Ranch Cemetery · 8.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton County, near Shive. The Hurst Ranch Cemetery was established around 1880. It was recognized as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2010.
Pearl Church of Christ · 8.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Pearl Church of Christ in Coryell County. Worship services began in the Bee House community around 1878, moving to the Pearl schoolhouse before this church was officially organized in…
Pearl School · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Pearl, and right here is the site of the old Pearl School. It started way back in 1884, just a simple log cabin with split log benches. Can you imagine? Over the years, it grew, evolving into a…

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Pecan Wells Cemetery · 8.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Pecan Wells Cemetery, which started as a burial ground for a pioneer community called Lookout. The first burial here was infant Heinrich K. Pfluger in 1893. Later, Civil War veteran W. M. Kemp…
Pearl Cemetery · 8.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Pearl, a community that started as Swayback Mountain, then became Wayback by mistake in 1854! It was renamed Pearl in 1890. The first known burial here was young Lottie May Manning in 1893, though…
Hamilton-Soules House · 9.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Hamilton-Soules House in Star, a home that's been a focal point for community life since it was built around 1900. Thomas Edgar Hamilton, a cotton gin operator and bookkeeper who later became a…
Bertrand, John Paney · 10.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Purmela, and just off the road here is the story of John Raney Bertrand. Born before the Texas Revolution to French immigrants, Bertrand first partnered in a mercantile business. But when the…
Shive · 10.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton County, passing through what was once the growing town of Shive. Settled in the 1870s by families like the Connels and McKinleys, Shive quickly established itself. The first school, Union…
Purmela Baptist Church · 11.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Purmela Baptist Church. This congregation started in 1886 as Basham Baptist Church, merging in 1901 with Salem Baptist Church. The combined group built a sanctuary and became Cravey…
Moline School Site · 11.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be the Moline community, just north of Lometa. Back in the early 1900s, the kids here had to travel to other towns for school. But in 1916, Kenneth and Olive Patterson donated five…
Grubb, Wiley Parker · 11.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Ireland, Texas, and the name Wiley Parker Grubb might ring a bell. Born in Walker County in 1846, Grubb joined the Texas Rangers at just 17 years old. He fought in the battle of Dove Creek near San…
St. Paul's Lutheran Church · 11.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton, where German immigrants settled in the late 1800s. In 1886, fourteen families organized St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran congregation. Their first worship service was in a schoolhouse,…
Ireland Cemetery · 11.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Ireland Cemetery. Ireland Cemetery This site was once the family burial plot for the Daniel Webster (D.W.) Edwards family. The first marked grave is for his one-year-old son, Sterling P. Edwards,…
United Presbyterian Church of Adamsville · 12.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the United Presbyterian Church of Adamsville. It began in 1880 as the Pleasant Valley Cumberland Presbyterian Church, organized with 19 charter members. Services were held in a…
Patterson, John, House · 12.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the John Patterson House, built between 1879 and 1880. John Patterson was a true pioneer here. He was the very first person to cultivate land in this county, way back in 1854. He also served as a…
Adamsville · 12.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Adamsville, a community that started as a frontier settlement. It grew from early settlers in the 1850s, with a flour mill, churches, and a school by the 1880s. The town was platted in 1908, and…
Site of the Ireland School · 12.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Site of the Ireland School. School classes were first conducted in a church tabernacle when Ireland was founded in 1911. The town was platted on the Coryell-Hamilton County line and named for Texas…
Townsen's Mill · 13.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Adamsville, and just off the road here, you can imagine the rumble of industry back in 1872. That's when brothers Perry and Jasper Townsen built their steam mill on Mill Branch. This wasn't just any…
Atherton School · 13.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be Atherton, Texas, home to the first school in this area. Opened in the 1880s as a boarding school for boys, it was housed in a two-story building on land owned by F. M. Farley. By…
Townsen Cemetery · 14.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Townsen Cemetery. The first Townsen to arrive in Texas was Oliver Hazard Perry Townsen, known as Uncle Perry, in 1854. He was born in Carroll County, Tennessee, on October 20, 1826. A year after his…
The 'Dinky' Railroad: Engineering a Connection · 14.1 mi
For its first fifty years, Hamilton was trapped by geography. The nearest rail line was a grueling wagon haul away, and that distance capped what the town could ever be. The fix was a railroad of its own. The…
Slater Cemetery · 14.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Slater Cemetery, the last vestige of a once-thriving community. Slater was a farming and ranching hub in the late 1800s, boasting two churches, a post office, a school, and businesses by the…
Twin Oaks · 15.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Twin Oaks, a historic home built in 1904 by Dr. Chas. C. Baker. Baker wasn't just the city's first resident dentist; he was also a descendant of Dallas' founding Beeman family and a Republican state…
Center City Baptist Church · 15.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Center City Baptist Church, founded in 1875 by Reverend Noah Turner Byars, a veteran of the Texas Revolution. The church, originally known as Bennett Creek Baptist, became Center City…
Center City United Methodist Church · 15.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Center City United Methodist Church in Star. A circuit preacher served this area in the early 1870s, and the church officially formed in 1878. Members met in a lodge building before…
Hamilton - 2025 Texas 2A Division I state football champion · 15.4 mi · Sports News
Hamilton defeated Joaquin 21-7 for the 2025 Texas 2A Division I state football championship.
Center City Community · 15.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Star, Texas, and right here is where the town of Center City once aimed to be the heart of Texas, literally. Settled back in 1854 by the Jenkins and Morris families, this spot was known as Hughes…
Center City Cemetery · 15.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through the Star area, near the Center City Cemetery. It began in 1874 with the burials of Julia M. Bishop and M.E. Hughes, daughters of early settlers. The land was purchased for a community graveyard in…
2025 UIL 2A Division 1 Football State Champions · 15.5 mi
Hamilton High School (Hamilton, TX): Most recent: 21-7 over Joaquin · 2025 2A Division 1 final.
Moore, Billy [Tiny] · 15.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Billy "Tiny" Moore, mandolinist and fiddler, was born on May 12, 1920, in Hamilton County, Texas. Moore's mother and grandfather taught him piano, fiddle, and guitar during his childhood. As an adolescent he backed his…
Hamilton County · 15.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Hamilton County, in Central Texas, is bounded on the north by Comanche, Erath, and Johnson counties, on the west by Mills County, and on the south by Lampasas and Coryell counties. Its center lies at 31°47' north…
Hamilton, TX (Hamilton County) · 15.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Hamilton, the county seat of Hamilton County. The first settlers arrived here in 1855, opening the first store the same year. The town was named for South Carolina governor James Hamilton. Growth…
Boynton, Charles Milton · 15.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Hamilton, Texas, the heart of Hamilton County. Right here, in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1877</say-as>, Charles Milton Boynton, a teacher who'd moved around the country, bought the…
Wallace, Benjamin Rush · 15.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once Shelby County, and right here, in 1843, a town was born: Hamilton. Benjamin Rush Wallace, a pioneer lawyer and businessman who’d settled in San Augustine, was part of the company…
King Cemetery · 15.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past King Cemetery, a burial ground in use before it was formally deeded in 1880. Many graves date back to 1873, though unmarked burials could be even older. An association formed in 1960 continues to…
King Baptist Church · 15.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of King Baptist Church. A Baptist congregation organized here in 1875, holding services in a log schoolhouse and baptizing in Cowhouse Creek. The church was deeded land in 1880 and built its…
Hamilton, TX · 15.7 mi
The Hamilton County Courthouse, built in 1897, stands as a significant landmark in the city. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 1980, reflecting its historical importance to the community.
Col. George R. Freeman · 15.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Hamilton area, where Colonel George R. Freeman made his home. Freeman, a Confederate veteran, led a group of former soldiers who bravely defended the Texas State Treasury from robbers in 1865,…
Knights of Pythias Lodge Hall · 15.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Hamilton, and you're passing the old Knights of Pythias Lodge Hall. Built around 1900 by C. W. Cotton, this place started life as a simple one-story building for shops. But in 1913, they added a…
Saint Mary's Episcopal Church · 15.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton, and right here is the site of Saint Mary's Episcopal Church. This wasn't just any church; it was the very first Episcopal church in all of Hamilton County! Services kicked off back in…
Manning-Gordon-Henderson House · 15.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton, and you might catch a glimpse of the Manning-Gordon-Henderson House. Built between 1880 and 1885 by local contractor Louis V. Manning, this home has seen a few families call it their…
First Baptist Church of Hamilton · 15.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Hamilton's First Baptist Church. Its roots go back to 1867 with early preaching by Elder D. S. Babb. The church was officially organized in 1873, and after meeting in various locations,…
Brushy Bill Grave · 15.9 mi · Web
Twenty miles south of Hico in the Hamilton city cemetery, there's a headstone that reads William Henry Roberts, also known as Billy the Kid. The marker went up in the early two thousands, replacing the original. Whether…
Hamilton County Courthouse · 15.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton, and right here is the Hamilton County Courthouse. Before this impressive limestone building went up in 1887, this county government bounced around! They met in stores, a livery stable,…
Hamilton National bank · 15.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton, the heart of Hamilton County. Back in 1876, the town's first drugstore was also home to a small safe, used for mail duties. By 1881, the owner let friends stash their coins in that same…
Waerenskjold, Elise · 15.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton County, where a remarkable woman once lived and worked to shape Norwegian history in Texas. Elise Waerenskjold, born in Norway in 1815, became a powerful voice encouraging her countrymen…
United Methodist Church · 15.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Hamilton's United Methodist Church. The congregation formed in the 1850s, with pioneer ministers braving hostile Indians to serve the early members. They worshipped in various places…
Tone, Thomas J. · 16.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once wild Texas frontier, and right here, in what is now Hamilton County, was land granted to Thomas J. Tone. He was one of Stephen F. Austin's original colonists, arriving in the 1820s.…
Lampasas River · 16.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Hamilton County, near the headwaters of the Lampasas River. This very water you see may have been first charted by Spaniards way back in 1721, during the Aguayo expedition. They found it forming…
Jonesboro, TX · 16.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Jonesboro, first known as Jones Mill, is at the intersection of State Highway 36 and Farm Road 1602, nineteen miles northwest of Gatesville on the Hamilton-Coryell county line. Two brothers, William L. and David Jones,…
Presbyterian Church · 16.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Presbyterian Church. Organized Sept. 5, 1880, by Rev. John A. McMurray, evangelist of Central Texas Presbytery.
Waerenskjold, Elise · 16.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Hamilton, where a remarkable woman named Elise Waerenskjold made her mark. From <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1846</say-as> to <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1895</say-as>, her…
Whitney, Ann · 16.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton, Texas, passing the site where a remarkable woman named Ann Whitney met her end in July of 1867. Ann was a teacher at a frontier school, known for her stout build and engaging…
Durham, John J. ("Jack") · 16.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton, and right here is where John J. "Jack" Durham made his mark. Born in Alabama in 1833, Durham arrived in Texas in 1857, eventually settling in Hamilton in 1860. He wasn't just a settler;…
Gentry, Frederick B. · 16.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton, Texas, home of Frederick B. Gentry. Gentry fought in the Texas War for Independence back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1836</say-as>. After the war, he didn't hang up his…
Whitney, Ann · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton County, and just up ahead is the site of a tragic event in 1867. Ann Whitney, a teacher from Missouri, had taken a job at the rural Leon River School. On a hot summer afternoon, Comanche…
Baker, William Thatcher · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton County, heading past the site of where William Thatcher Baker made his mark. Born in Ohio in 1850, Baker headed to Texas, eventually settling near Dallas and marrying the daughter of a…
Bethel Heights Baptist Church · 16.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Bethel Heights Baptist Church, originally organized in 1886 as the German Bethel Baptist Church by German immigrants. They met in a schoolhouse, later bought land here in 1891, and built…
Hamilton County · 16.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton County, a place with a bit of a backstory. It was first created way back in 1842, carved out of Montgomery and Houston counties. But that didn't stick. It was recreated and officially…
Trinity Lutheran Church · 16.9 mi · Historical Marker
German Lutherans in the Pottsville area formed a congregation in 1891. They held services in a schoolhouse until they built their first sanctuary near Pottsville in 1907. Worship was conducted in German until 1929.
Walker, Stanley, Birthplace of · 17.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Lampasas, home of Stanley Walker, a giant of Texas journalism. Born right here in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1898</say-as>, Walker carved out a legendary career. He honed his skills in…
Murrell School · 17.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the old Murrell School, a testament to education in rural Coryell County. Many early settlers here hailed from Sardis, Mississippi, forming a community named for Postmaster Joe Ater.…
Capt. John Stephen Potts · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hamilton County, past the town of Pottsville, named for Captain John Stephen Potts. Born in Tennessee in 1816, Potts was a man of many hats: justice of the peace, sheriff in Missouri, and a…
Ater Cemetery · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Ater Cemetery, originally part of a town called Sardis. The town later took its name from Joe Ater, who owned the store and served as postmaster. Early gravestones here date back to 1868, and…
Smith, Philip, House · 17.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Philip Smith House, built in 1856 right here in Lampasas. Smith was a teamster during the Texas War for Independence, hauling supplies for the army. Look at those thick, 24-inch walls made from…
Pleasant Grove Cemetery · 17.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Pleasant Grove Cemetery. 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 (1844-1926) of Alabama…
Hemmeline Cemetery · 17.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Hemmeline Cemetery, established in 1895 by German Baptists as the German Baptist Cemetery. It was originally two acres, with one acre sold in family plots for a dollar. By the early 1900s, it…
School Creek Baptist Church · 18.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of School Creek Baptist Church, named for a nearby stream. It organized in 1879, holding its first service that November in a small schoolhouse. The church later built its own building in…
Jonesboro High School — State Softball 2026 · 18.7 mi
Jonesboro High School in Jonesboro, Texas qualified for the 2026 UIL state softball championships, reaching the state tournament (final four) in Class one A.
Jonesboro Methodist Church · 18.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Jonesboro Methodist Church. This congregation traces its history to the late 1860s, when early settlers of Jonesboro met together in a combination church-school Masonic Lodge building for worship…
Wood Cemetery · 18.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Wood Cemetery, likely named for educator D. R. Wood. It was established in 1858 with the burial of Sarah E. Shipman, wife of rancher John K. Shipman. The cemetery still serves descendants today and…
Weaver Chapel Cemetery · 19.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Weaver Chapel Cemetery, serving rural communities for over 130 years. Land was donated in 1879 by Rev. John Wilson for the Methodist Episcopal Church. The oldest marked grave is Robert Weaver, an…
Stokes, Richard S. · 19.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Lometa, and just ahead is the site of a remarkable rescue. Richard S. Stokes, a veteran of the Confederate Army, came to Texas in 1868 and settled down as a rancher and farmer. But on July 19th,…
Lone Cove Baptist Church · 19.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Long Cove Baptist Church. It organized in 1876 as Sims Creek Baptist Church with eight members. The congregation met in the Long Cove schoolhouse until it burned in 1925, after which…

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