Nix
Lampasas vicinity, Lampasas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Settlers came to this site along the Fort Phantom Hill Road in the 1860s and established the village of Nix. Harvey Wallace opened a general store in 1875, and his wife Elizabeth became the first postmaster. Several springs ran nearby, including Dripping Springs near the Nix Cemetery founded in 1878. By 1885, citizens started a school on the Levi Ringer place. The town boasted a cotton gin, blacksmiths and stores, and citizens built a new schoolhouse in 1920. Rock quarries and cedar yards begun in the 1940s supported the local economy. Nix schools absorbed Bend, Lynch Creek and Ogles before consolidating with Lampasas in 1952. The historic Nix schoolhouse later became a community center. (2007)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Settlers reached this spot along the Fort Phantom Hill Road in the 1860s and founded Nix, where Harvey Wallace opened a store in 1875 and his wife Elizabeth served as first postmaster. The village grew with a cotton gin, blacksmiths, stores, and a school, and later leaned on rock quarries and cedar yards. After absorbing neighboring schools, Nix consolidated with Lampasas in 1952, and its old schoolhouse became a community center.
Why it matters
Nix traces the full arc of a Texas frontier town—settlement, modest prosperity, and quiet disappearance into a larger community.
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Related people
- · Harvey Wallace
- · Elizabeth Wallace
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