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Florence, TX

On land John C. Caskey donated in 1845 for a cemetery and meeting house, settlers raised a two-story native-stone building sometime before 1855. In an era when frontier communities pooled every resource, the single structure did quadruple duty — schoolhouse, Baptist and Methodist worship space, and meeting hall for Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges. Purchased by Primitive Baptists in 1924 and cut down to one story in a 1950 remodeling, it survives as a record of shared pioneer institutions.

Graham, TX

Built in 1885 on land donated by town founder Col. E.S. Graham, this red-brick church first served the First Baptist congregation, organized in 1880 and dedicated with a sermon by Elder W.M. Farmer. When the Baptists built anew in 1908, the building passed to the Church of Christ, which has since worshiped here longer than any other congregation in town. Its original bell tower and unpainted brick marked it as one of the young frontier community's earliest permanent institutions.

Dublin, TX

Around 1880 Joseph E. Bishop — son-in-law of A.H. and Sarah Jane Dobkins, the founders of Dublin — put up this wooden commercial building, later veneered in native stone in 1895 and remodeled in the mid-20th century. Over the decades it housed a colorful parade of tenants: banks, medical clinics, a drugstore, a newspaper plant, saloons, and a dress shop.

Round Rock, TX

This limestone commercial building went up to house John A. Nelson's private bank alongside a hardware and lumber business — a common blend of enterprises in a growing central Texas town. Though the bank closed in 1922, commercial use continued, and the structure is prized for its facade of cast iron and pressed tin, whose ornamented pilasters and columns were fashionable in the region around the turn of the century. It is noted for keeping that storefront intact.

Seymour, TX

Charles Holman, a builder-carpenter from Sweden, raised this stone building in 1877 from rock quarried south of Seymour. Over the decades it did duty as a school, churches, a newspaper office, and a community center before being bought in 1949 and restored as a private home.

Coppell, TX

The border of this school garden is built from concrete salvaged from the foundation of Coppell's second school building, raised around 1911 to replace a cramped two-room predecessor. That two-story structure served the growing Texas farm town until 1928. Reusing its foundation stones keeps a tangible piece of the community's early education history rooted on the site.

Richmond, TX

Deeded to Fort Bend County in 1838 by Richmond's founders, this square hosted a succession of courthouses, including a proud two-story Victorian building with a bell tower and clock completed in 1888. In 1889 the square was the scene of the bloody climax of the Jaybird-Woodpecker feud, a violent post-Civil War political struggle. After county offices moved in 1909, the square became a hub of recreation before a City Hall rose here in 1940.

El Paso, TX

Before pipes and pumps, El Pasoans drew water from open acequias and bought it from aguadores who carried it door to door. In 1882 Sylvester Watts built the city's first waterworks, pumping from the Rio Grande into a reservoir on this site, and later a riverside well became the main supply. The city bought the system in 1910 and modernized it, and in 1952 the Public Service Board took over its stewardship.

Llano, TX

In 1756, under commission from the governor of Spanish Texas, Bernardo de Miranda led a party of 23 from San Antonio to examine Cerro del Almagre, a red-ochre hill rumored to be rich in silver. Reaching Honey Creek and the junction of the Llano and Colorado rivers, Miranda gathered ore that assayed at only ten ounces of silver per hundred pounds. That meager yield, combined with transport difficulties and the threat of Native raids, led Spain to abandon plans for further mining.

Bellville, TX

The roots of Bellville Methodist Church reach back to 1822, when Thomas B. Bell arrived among Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred and donated fifty acres for a church and camp meetings between Piney and Caney Creeks. Frontier revivals took hold there, and at an 1835 gathering the future Alamo hero William Barret Travis spoke and pledged to help bring Methodist preachers to Texas. After decades of camp-meeting worship, proceeds from the land's sale built a German Methodist Episcopal church in Bellville in 1882, and a new sanctuary rose on this site in 1886.

Galveston, TX

Long a crossroads for Native peoples, privateers, and Spanish and French explorers, Galveston Island briefly became the seat of the Republic of Texas in 1836. As Santa Anna's army pushed east, President David G. Burnet's improvised cabinet fled Washington-on-the-Brazos and sheltered here until the Texan victory at San Jacinto. From this port the fledgling Texas Navy, later reorganized under President Lamar and Commodore Edwin W. Moore, guarded the coast against Mexican invasion until U.S. annexation in 1846.

Junction, TX

Carved from Bexar County in 1858 and named for a young lieutenant who fell at the Alamo, Kimble County waited until 1876 to organize itself formally — its very first district court convening the next spring beneath a live oak north of here, with Texas Rangers on hand to keep order on a raw frontier. The early government struggled to hold onto a home: fire destroyed its first frame courthouse and all the county records in 1884, and a second stone building burned partially in 1888 before the present courthouse rose in 1929.

Corpus Christi, TX

Sheltered by offshore islands, Corpus Christi Bay drew smugglers before the Texas Revolution and then legitimate commerce when Henry Kinney opened a trading post around 1838. The town became a launching point for the California Gold Rush and a key stop between San Antonio and the Rio Grande, but its shallow harbor demanded decades of dredging. From the collapsed "Ropes Boom" of the 1890s to the port's grand opening in 1926, persistent effort turned a smugglers' haven into one of the nation's largest seaports.

Bastrop, TX

Long home to the Tonkawa and Comanche, this stretch of the Colorado River became strategic when Spanish explorers blazed part of El Camino Real, the King's Highway, across it in the years after 1691. A fort and community rose here in 1805 to guard the road, and by 1825 the site was one of the first settlements in Stephen F. Austin's colony, first called Mina and then renamed Bastrop in 1837 for the influential land agent Baron de Bastrop. Its founding families went on to serve in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War, and the town became county seat and home to a noted military academy.

McCamey, TX

In the 1920s this stretch of West Texas held what boosters called the world's largest complex of oil wells, and the problem was never finding oil but moving it. In 1925 the Humble company laid a roughly 500-mile pipeline to link the field to Gulf Coast refineries, and the construction camp built here in 1926 seeded the town of McCamey and its refinery. So much crude flowed that in 1928 the line took part in Texas's first voluntary proration, deliberately curbing output to match what could actually be shipped and sold.

Livingston, TX

Long before highways, a web of Indian trails laced Polk County in East Texas — five of them crossing the land between 1830 and 1840, some already centuries old. The Coushatta and Alabama peoples opened two of these routes and traveled others known as Long King's, Kickapoo, and Battise traces. When settlers arrived, they followed these Native pathways to lay out their own roads, and in places modern highways still trace the ancient lines.

Ingleside, TX

Ingleside's schoolhouses trace the arc of frontier Texas education. In 1854 John P. and Susan Hatch Borden opened the short-lived Bay Seminary, and in 1857 Henry Nold launched Ingleside College, boarding at least thirty students in a cluster of frame buildings before the Civil War swept the college away. After the war a school rose in nearby Allendale, and by about 1900 a permanent public school system finally took root.

Clay City, KY

Robert Clark Jr. and William Smith bought land here in 1805 to make iron, and from 1808 to 1830 a blast furnace known as the Red River Iron Works turned local ore into metal on the Kentucky frontier. Decades later the region's timber wealth took over: after the Kentucky Union Railway reached Powell County in 1886, Clay City's sawmills boomed, including one of America's largest timber-processing plants—until a 1906 mill fire and exhausted forests ended the boom.

Edna, TX

Organized in 1837 and named for President Andrew Jackson, this region holds layers of early Texas history: it was homeland of the Karankawa people, crossed in 1528 by the shipwrecked Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca, and site of La Salle's ill-fated Fort St. Louis of 1685. Most of the county later fell within Stephen F. Austin's grant, where members of his "Old 300" founded the town of Santa Anna in 1832—renamed Texana and, in time, succeeded by Edna.

Jefferson, TX

Raised in the late 1850s to house the Jefferson Masonic Lodge, this Italianate building saw businesses come and go through the Civil War and later sheltered fraternal orders like the Knights of Honor. It survives as the last of the commercial-row structures that once lined Dallas Street near Jefferson's busy wharf. In its day this was among the most important inland ports in Texas.

Long Beach, MS

In 1788 Nicholas and Marianne Ladner became the first Europeans to settle this stretch of the Gulf Coast, raising a log house known as "The Chimneys" that mariners used as a landmark on the run between Mobile and New Orleans. After Nicholas died, Spanish authorities granted the land to his widow, and the resulting Widow Ladner Claim still underlies much of modern Long Beach.

Bertram, TX

Erected in 1869 in Oatmeal — the second-oldest community in Burnet County — this limestone building served as both school and church for a settlement founded twenty years earlier. It replaced an even earlier 1858 school and has changed little since, still standing as a church today. Its endurance traces the arc of a small frontier community and its evolving houses of learning.

Port Arthur, TX

When the Spindletop gusher blew in near Beaumont in January 1901, it did not just change Texas geology—it remade its ports. Within two months the tanker Atlas carried the first Spindletop crude out of Sabine Pass, and Port Arthur was soon shipping oil to Standard Oil's refineries even as skeptics scoffed at burning petroleum for fuel. Within a year more than half the ships entering the pass were tied to oil, steamers were burning Texas crude, and the Guffey company was building the state's first tanker fleet.

College Station, TX

In 1920 Texas A&M engineering students tried to broadcast a football game by ham radio, and when that failed they relayed updates by telephone to fans in a campus pavilion. The next year, students at wireless station 5XB rigged redundant transmitters and telegraph lines from the Kyle Field press box to send live play-by-play of the championship game against the University of Texas on November 24, 1921, using coded abbreviations to speed transmission. Missing the U.S. record by only days, the flawless broadcast is believed to have been the first of its kind in Texas.

Titusville, PA · est. 1954

In the hills around Titusville, the modern petroleum industry was quite literally being invented. The inscription marks where one of the region's earliest crude-oil refineries rose in 1860, just after Edwin Drake's famous 1859 well nearby, with its first run of refined oil following in 1861. It also nods to Samuel Kier, who had been distilling Pennsylvania crude in Pittsburgh years earlier, turning a nuisance seepage into lamp oil and medicine.

Livingston, TX

Long before roads were surveyed, the Creeks, Alabamas, Coushattas, and Kickapoos of this region laced it with trails for trade and travel, including Long King's Trace and the Coushatta Trace reaching toward Mexico. After Anglo settlement began in the 1820s, these Native paths hardened into stagecoach roads, while Trinity River boats served some twenty landings along Polk County's riverfront. Roads and river together carried the county's produce and people for generations.

San Felipe, TX

When Stephen F. Austin was planting his colony in the mid-1820s, travel meant following wagon ruts and notched trees through the Texas wilderness. Within a decade San Felipe had become a crossroads from which eight or more roads radiated, tying into great arteries like the San Antonio Road and the Atascosita Road to the United States. Yet even the main routes were dust in summer and impassable bog in winter — a reminder of how hard-won overland travel was before the modern highway era.

George West, TX

Before the 1870s, children in Live Oak County learned in cabins, brush arbors, and dugouts from clergymen and ranch hands, until County Judge G.W. Jones launched community schools in 1876 at seven and a half cents a day per pupil. In time the county held forty-three of these tiny schools, and Oakville built the first free-school building in 1881. Waves of consolidation shrank that scattered patchwork down to just two schools serving the whole county by 1970.

Three Rivers, TX

Before the 1870s, children in Live Oak County learned from clergymen and ranch hands in cabins, brush arbors, and dugouts. County Judge G. W. Jones launched community schools in 1876 at seven and a half cents a day per student, and in time forty-three tiny schools dotted the county. Oakville built the first free-school building in 1881, and over the following century waves of consolidation reduced those scattered schoolhouses to just two districts by 1970.

Cayuga, TX

When Anderson County organized in 1846, the land west of Catfish Creek was thinly settled, and community life gathered around a few key figures. On his own land, Georgia native Charles Gilmore hosted the first polling place, school, and church meetings, later donating ground for a cemetery and sanctuary and serving as the area's first postmaster in 1852. Nearby Wild Cat Bluff thrived as a Trinity River ferry crossing until the river became unnavigable after the Civil War, and over time these early communities faded as activity shifted elsewhere.

Bethel, OH

This burying ground holds the founding generation of Bethel, a village laid out in Ohio's Clermont County during the young republic's push across the Appalachians into the Northwest Territory. Among those at rest is Obed Denham, who donated the plot and platted the town, and Thomas Morris, who rose from the frontier to the United States Senate. The presence of "The Unknown Hunter" — a wanderer Denham befriended and the first person laid to rest here — is a reminder of how thin the line still was between settlement and wilderness in these years.

Andrews, TX

Andrews County sat on one of Texas's last frontiers, where Anglo settlement lagged some sixty years behind the rest of the state because of Comanche resistance and a punishing scarcity of water. O. B. Holt filed the first land claim in 1886, and hardy families like the Cowdens and Peter Von Holebeke followed, but by 1900 the county still counted only 87 people and did not organize until 1910. Windmill pumps and drift fences finally made ranching workable on the dry plains, and the 1930 discovery of oil turned decades of stubborn endurance into sudden prosperity.

Caldwell, TX

When Santa Anna revoked constitutional rights, thirty or more men left this thinly settled corner of Burleson County to join the Texas Revolution, fighting in the Grass Fight of November 1835 and the Siege of Bexar that December. With the men away, the Mexican advance came within forty miles, and civilians fled across the flooded Brazos toward safety in the United States during the panic known as the Runaway Scrape. On April 21, 1836, these settlers helped win the Battle of San Jacinto and Texas independence.

Eastland, TX

Cattle grazed the Eastland County grasslands in the 1850s, and the U.S. Army's frontier forts drew a first trickle of families from the older Southern states. The Civil War emptied the region when the garrisons withdrew and settlers fled to fortified refuges like Blair's Fort, but pioneers returned afterward and organized the county in 1873. A contested county-seat fight moved the government from Merriman to the newly founded town of Eastland in 1875.

Kerrville, TX

Kentucky-born Joshua D. Brown came to Texas in 1830, did military duty for the Republic, and in 1846 led ten shingle makers to the cypress-rich headwaters of the Guadalupe, building a camp of picket houses to hand-rive shingles despite the danger of Indian raids. His shingle trade was the first industry on the site of Kerrville; Brown bought 2,640 acres, donated the townsite, and insisted the county be named for his friend, surveyor James Kerr.

Stratford, TX

Coldwater Creek offered the only live water for miles, and so it became the first settled corner of Sherman County. Buffalo hunter J.D. Rawlings arrived in the 1870s and later served as county judge; ranchers, freighters, and merchants followed in the 1890s, among them W.B. Slaughter, John Lanners, and Thomas Snyder. Together they built the cattle-and-supply economy of the Texas Panhandle frontier.

Claude, TX

When Armstrong County organized in 1890, its first sheriffs inherited the peacekeeping once handled by ranchers on the open range. These lawmen earned no salary—only fees for serving civil and criminal process—and lived with their families in the jail quarters, even feeding the prisoners. From John F. Wilson through James D. Woodburn, they policed rustling and other crimes and won lasting respect in the young Panhandle county.

Jefferson, TX

What started in 1854 as a humble log blacksmith shop in Jefferson grew into a bell foundry under G. A. Kelly, casting the cowbells that clanged from the ox teams of pioneer freighters. The shop went on to make the Kelly plow, one of the first modern plows manufactured in Texas. It was an early spark of Texas industry in a place better known for river commerce.

Columbus, TX

In the young Republic of Texas, a frontier town's first drugstore was a lifeline — the closest thing to a hospital many settlers would ever see. Founded in 1844 by Philadelphia-trained Dr. John G. Logue, this Columbus store dispensed medicine through the Republic, statehood, the Civil War, and the railroad age, passing through a long line of owners including one who founded the town's railway hospital. Its trade reached as far as Gonzales and Bastrop, and one proprietor stood behind the counter for nearly half a century.

Socorro, TX

When Pueblo peoples of northern New Mexico rose against Spanish rule in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, refugees — Spanish colonists and allied Indians alike — fled southeast down the Rio Grande to the El Paso del Norte area. There the Franciscans founded Mission Santa Maria de Socorro del Sur, and by 1691 a permanent adobe church rose here beside a Piro Indian pueblo. Floods eventually destroyed it, and after the river shifted in 1829 the present Socorro mission was built nearby; excavations in the 1980s confirmed this as the oldest known mission site in Texas.

Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth grew into a cattle supply depot in the 1870s as drovers pushed herds north, and railroad lines soon drew stockyards along their tracks. Boston investors bought the yards in 1893, and the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company held its first livestock show at Marine Creek in 1896, boosted by the Texas Cattle Raisers Association. With backing from Armour and Swift, the show grew into the National Feeders and Breeders Show, added a Wild West act in 1916, and by 1918 became the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show before relocating in 1944.

Frankfort, KY

This ground was part of a 500-acre grant made in 1782 to Revolutionary War soldier George Campbell, who had campaigned with George Rogers Clark. For decades South Frankfort stood as a separate town (1810–1850), and the survey passed through the hands of legislators, state officials, and philanthropists. The Queen Anne house here was raised by John Meagher in 1889–90.

Sulphur Bluff, TX

The first known settlers at Sulphur Bluff were the family of John Gregg, whose cemetery holds a marker from the Republic of Texas era in 1837. The Hargrave brothers came from Indiana and built brush-roofed log homes on a high bluff above the Sulphur River, where game was plentiful and the height offered safety. Robert Hargrave, a mechanical talent, ran a woodworking shop, a blacksmith shop, and a grist mill that drew customers from fifty miles away; a post office followed in 1849 and a school in 1852.

Lower Merion Township, PA · est. 1972

Opened in 1704 and known by a string of colonial names, this roadside inn served travelers on one of the region's key routes for well over a century. It was familiar to Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, and shortly after the Revolution it was renamed to honor General Anthony 'Mad Anthony' Wayne, who had lodged there. Taverns like this were the social and political hubs of colonial and Revolutionary America, where news traveled and plans were laid.

Longview, TX

This house is one of the few surviving structures of Earpville, the early settlement that grew into Longview, standing along William T. Brooks's stagecoach line running from Monroe, Louisiana, to Tyler, Texas. Built before 1882 and bought that year by Alabama natives Latimus and Mary Teague, it became a schoolhouse in 1890 when their daughters Molly and Sarah taught classes and music here until the school moved in 1905.

Mount Joy Township, PA · est. 1947

Along this railroad right-of-way ran the first commercial telegraph line in the United States, strung between Lancaster and Harrisburg and completed in 1845 — barely a year after Samuel Morse's famous demonstration. The first message clattered through in January 1846 with a very human impatience: "Why don't you write, you rascals?" It was a small joke carrying an enormous idea — that words could now outrun the fastest horse.

College Station, TX

When Texas A&M opened in 1876 four miles from the nearest town of Bryan, the college had to house its own faculty and staff, and the first five brick homes went up along Throckmorton Street that year. By 1938 more than a hundred houses—from Queen Anne mansions to modest bungalows—dotted the campus. After College Station was incorporated that year, the college sold the homes off for a few hundred dollars each and cleared the rest; none remain on campus, though forty-one have since been located nearby.

Cuero, TX

This bandstand, a replica of the first one raised in Cuero's park, recalls a Texas town's love of music — hosting concerts, patriotic rallies, ice cream socials, and street dances. Cuero's musicians served as the official band for the town's famous "Turkey Trot," a Thanksgiving-season showing of turkeys founded in 1912 and launched with a parade led by the governor. The marker traces a longer story too, from Spanish presidio bands and fiddle tunes played on the frontier to the many fine ensembles that European settlers organized once their instruments arrived in the 1840s.

Matagorda, TX

Before railroads reached Texas, everything a frontier settlement needed—flour, tools, munitions, trade goods—moved on the backs of ox and mule teams driven by teamsters who braved raids, bandits, and brutal weather. One of the few regular runs linked Austin and Matagorda, wagons rolling out on the 1st and 15th of each month across six counties. Loads grew from crude 15-foot wooden carts with prickly-pear-greased hubs to two-ton "Prairie Schooners," and caravans could stretch from five wagons to a hundred and fifty, circling into a defensive corral when attacked. The coming of the "Iron Horse" in 1853 began the freighter's slow disappearance.

Round Top, TX

Before highways and railroads knit Texas together, travel meant long, uncertain journeys broken by roadside inns like the Sam Lewis Stopping Place near Winedale. Begun in 1834 as a two-room log cabin and enlarged over the years with the help of German craftsmen, it sheltered stagecoach passengers who shared family meals and a bed for the night. Such inns changed horses, fed travelers, and often handled the community's mail—humble institutions on which whole towns and stage lines depended.

Corsicana, TX

In 1902 the first public use of natural gas in Texas began on this Corsicana street, piping fuel to nearby homes and businesses. Navarro County became a cradle of the industry — the first gas meters appeared at Chatfield in 1905, and gas was first used to pump oil wells here in 1906. From these modest lines grew a network that within a generation spanned the state and, by the 1920s, launched the nation's first interstate natural gas pipelines.

Port Arthur, TX

This marks the route of Texas' first oil pipelines to tidewater, built in 1901 to carry crude from the famous Spindletop gusher that came in on January 10 of that year. A company that would become Gulf Pipeline laid eleven miles of line to the railroad in just two weeks, then extended it to Port Arthur, and within a few years the region was laced with hundreds of miles of pipe. The marker also recalls the wartime 'Big Inch' line from Texas to the Atlantic as a decisive factor in Allied victory in World War II.

Brenham, TX

In pioneer Texas, hopeful merchants tried to make the Brazos River a commercial highway, with Washington-on-the-Brazos as a key distribution point for the state's rich cotton and sugar country. The first steamer reached Washington in 1840, and by 1849 its docks bustled with boats bound for New Orleans. But shallow, flood-prone, driftwood-choked rivers doomed most such ventures, and by 1865 the era of Texas river steamers had passed.

San Augustine, TX

Texas lumbering, the state's first million-dollar industry, entered recorded history in 1819 with two sawmills, one of them run by pioneer William Ward on a creek in what is now San Augustine County. By 1825 a nearby mill was turning out about 500 board feet a day, cutting logs felled by ax and wedge and hauled by cart to the water. From primitive pit saws and animal-powered muley mills to the labor-saving sash saw, the craft advanced steadily and became a pivot for railroads and dozens of related trades in the Piney Woods.

Uvalde, TX

Before automobiles, the wagon yard was the crossroads of rural Texas life — part hotel, part social center, where drivers could shelter their teams, cook a meal, and swap news and gossip. An open area flanked by sheds, stalls, and feed rooms, a yard might fill a city block and charge a quarter to a dollar a day, and families sometimes lingered for weeks awaiting kin or goods arriving by train or stage. Merchants such as the F.A. Piper Company, whose yard stood a block west of this spot, often built and ran these yards free of charge to draw customers.

Beeville, TX

The roads of Bee County were centuries in the making: Native, wild-cattle, and mustang trails became highways for Spanish expeditions pressing north from Mexico, and later guided pioneers who founded towns at their crossings — Beeville itself sits where two old roads met. During the Civil War the vital "cotton road," called the lifeline of the Confederacy, crossed the county, and afterward great cattle trails funneled Longhorns north toward the Chisholm and Dodge City routes.

Ringgold, TX

Sitting on the natural line of travel from the United States toward Mexico and the West, this county was once laced with historic roads. The Chihuahua Traders Trail of 1840, the ill-fated Texan-Santa Fe Expedition of 1841, and Captain Randolph Marcy's 1849 California Trail all left their tracks here, soon joined by the Butterfield Overland Mail and feeder branches of the Chisholm cattle trail. By 1882 the first railroad traced much of the old Santa Fe route, and modern Highway 82 still follows Marcy's path.

Vernon, TX

Organized in 1858 on the rolling plains of North Texas, Wilbarger County took its name from early settlers, including surveyor Josiah Wilbarger, famous for surviving a scalping. The land here was frontier in the fullest sense: the Doan brothers' adobe house marked the Red River crossing of the Western Cattle Trail, where great herds forded on their way north. The county seat of Vernon, once called Eagle Flat, gained a railroad in 1886 as the open range gave way to towns and rails.

Earth, TX

Before settlers arrived, Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa people followed the buffalo across this stretch of the High Plains from water hole to water hole, favoring a spring that later anchored the XIT Ranch's Springlake headquarters. The Halsell family assembled the 300,000-acre Mashed O Ranch here in 1902, then in 1923 began selling rangeland to Midwestern farmers as the plains shifted from cattle to the plow. When the new town's post office opened in 1925, the names 'Fairlawn' and 'Tulsa' were rejected in favor of 'Earth.'

Georgetown, TX

Samuel Allen Easley came to Texas from South Carolina as an infant, and his family settled along the San Gabriel River in Williamson County. After a lifetime managing the family farm, he and his wife Roberta moved into Georgetown in 1913 and built this bungalow with its broad hip roof and wraparound porch. The house remained in the Easley family until 1968.