Historic Markers in Texas

Lagarto, TX

Lagarto College opened in 1884 with four teachers, the only college Live Oak County would ever have, promoted by townsfolk hoping to grow their community of 500. But when two railroads bypassed Lagarto, the once-prosperous town withered and the school closed in 1895. Its two-story building was hauled away to serve out its days as a ranch house.

Nordheim, TX

Born in Germany, H. W. Laging joined the great mid-century wave of German immigrants who settled the Texas Hill Country and coastal plains, arriving in 1860 and marrying a fellow German settler. He took up arms for the Confederacy in a Texas infantry unit, then returned to build a successful life as a farmer and businessman. Beloved as "Papa Laging," he lived on as the last surviving Confederate veteran of his community, a bridge between the German immigrant experience and the Civil War generation.

Hallsville, TX

Jacob LaGrone, a pioneer who settled here in 1837 as a citizen of the Republic of Texas, gave his name to this chapel, built about 1866 from timber sawed at Harleton's Mill and hand-dressed on site under T. B. McFarland's supervision with donated neighbor labor. The property was deeded to the Methodist denomination in 1870 by David McKinney, who had purchased land from LaGrone's estate.

Austin, TX

Laguna Gloria is a Mediterranean-style villa built in 1916 for Henry and Clara Driscoll Sevier on a lagoon off the Colorado River, complete with a decorative window modeled on San Antonio's San José Mission. Its greater fame flows from Clara Driscoll, the philanthropist celebrated as the "Savior of the Alamo" for her efforts to preserve that shrine, who in 1943 gave the property to the Texas Fine Arts Association. Her lakeside home became an art museum, extending her legacy of cultural stewardship.

Linn, TX

Macedonio Vela settled this stretch of brush country in 1867 and turned more than 4,000 acres into the flourishing Laguna Seca ("Dry Lake") Ranch, which eventually swelled to 80,000 acres. In 1871 his daughter Carlota planted the first orange trees in Hidalgo County from seeds a traveling priest had given her—an early spark for what became a major citrus region. A school, post office, and Catholic church soon followed, and the ranch remains in Vela hands generations later.

Lajitas, TX

Set beside a Rio Grande ford that people crossed for millennia, the Lajitas cemetery gathers the varied history of the Big Bend borderland into one flagstone-walled ground. Comanche and Apache raiders followed the crossing into Mexico, Spanish expeditions scouted it for a presidio in the 1740s, and one of the Army's experimental camel expeditions paused here in 1860. After rancher H. W. McGuirk opened a trading post in 1899 and troops manned the crossing in the 1910s, a small settlement grew—and its Hispanic and Anglo dead were laid to rest here in barrows and niche-topped grutas.

Runaway Bay (Bridgeport), TX

After the United States entered World War II in 1941, Lake Bridgeport became an ideal, sparsely populated site for military training, serving as a bombing target range and auxiliary seaplane base for Eagle Mountain Lake Marine Corps Air Station. Beginning in 1942, crews built an administration building, seaplane ramp, and stone and floating targets, and hundreds of Navy and Marine aviators trained here in strafing, dive-bombing, glider work, and tests of the early TDR radio-controlled assault drone. Training took lives, too — two Marine aviators and a local guard died in accidents in 1944.

Fairfield, TX

Pioneers Simeon and Nancy Lake and their seven children settled here in the mid-1850s, clearing land and farming, and around 1856 a small church on their property gave rise to the Lake Chapel community. A schoolhouse and a two-acre burial ground soon followed; the earliest recorded grave is that of an infant granddaughter who died in 1874. Though the church and school were later moved, the cemetery grew over the years, holding members of the Lake and other pioneer families alongside veterans of the Civil War, both World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam.

Kennard, TX

After emancipation, freed African Americans built the Durden and Lake Creek communities here, at first burying their dead on family farms. In 1906 Malissa Scurlock and her sons Dan and George gave three acres for a shared burial ground, where the first interments were two infants of the McCelvey and Berry families. A cemetery association organized in 1910 under longtime officers Hayne David and Beatrice Murphy, and the ground remains an active, cherished link to those founding families.

Scotland, TX

In the late 1800s this part of Archer County was open range, opened to settlers only after the U.S. government forced Native American tribes onto reservations in Indian Territory. Homesteaders and ranchers clashed over the land even as the county organized in 1880, and around 1900 the McDonald family buried a visiting relative—remembered only as Grandma Crisp—in what became the Lake Creek community cemetery. Deeded to the county in 1908 and later cared for by a descendants' association, it holds generations of area residents and military veterans.

Montgomery, TX

Long before Stephen F. Austin's colonists arrived, the Coushatta people traveled the Coushatta Trace, a trade road running from Louisiana into Texas across these lands. Settled beginning around 1831 within Austin's second colony, the Lake Creek Settlement became the earliest known Anglo-American community in what is now Montgomery County. In 1835 W.W. Shepperd opened the area's first store, and from it in 1837 he founded the town of Montgomery; a number of Lake Creek settlers, including John Marshall Wade of the 'Twin Sisters' cannons, fought in the Texas Revolution.

Iola, TX

In 1874 law partners Ben Goodrich and H. H. Boone—the latter a Texas Attorney General—donated four acres to the Methodist Episcopal Church for the scattered farm community of Lake Grove. Residents quickly raised a building used for both worship and schooling, and by 1900 a hundred students attended the Lake Grove School. The still-active cemetery, with stones dating to 1874, holds the grave of a Civil War veteran.

Dallas, TX

Lake Highlands Elementary opened in 1955 amid the postwar suburban boom that swelled the Richardson School District, its six rooms soon doubled to keep up with growth. The marker frankly records the era's segregation: before 1955 local Black children attended the separate Little Egypt School, and Richardson's schools stayed segregated until 1965, the same year a new campus for African-American students rose in Hamilton Park. Lake Highlands also became a mid-century innovator, among the first schools in the nation to teach by television in 1960.

Granite Shoals, TX

Impounded behind the Alvin J. Wirtz Dam beginning in 1949, this Highland Lakes reservoir was renamed in 1965 to honor Lyndon B. Johnson, the Hill Country native whose work in Congress advanced the flood-control, water-conservation, and low-cost power projects of the Lower Colorado River Authority. Johnson kept a home nearby and often returned to relax near his ranch and boyhood home.

Cleburne, TX

Cleburne, the Johnson County seat, took its name from Patrick Cleburne, the Confederate general who led Texas troops in the Civil War. In the early 1960s the growing city approved a multimillion-dollar bond to dam its water supply, and by 1964 a 2,000-acre reservoir bearing the general's name stood ready to serve the community. The lake and its treatment plant reflect the postwar boom in municipal infrastructure across Texas.

Temple, TX

When the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad founded Temple, it dammed nearby Bird Creek to secure water for its trains — and the resulting reservoir soon doubled as a recreation ground. By 1900 investors had built a park honoring railroad manager L.J. Polk, where townsfolk paid a dime to boat, fish, and play croquet and tennis. Over the decades the retreat passed from private association to private club and finally to a city park.

Somerville, TX

For decades Yegua Creek was a menace, flooding 43 times in the 46 years before 1958 and destroying lives and crops. On September 22, 1962, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson turned the first shovel of earth for Somerville Dam, a flood-control project completed in 1967 that created Lake Somerville. It stands among the mid-century public works that tamed Texas rivers and reshaped rural life.

West Tawakoni, TX

Completed in 1960, Lake Tawakoni is among the largest reservoirs lying wholly within Texas, spreading across some 36,700 acres behind a 5.5-mile Iron Bridge dam on the Sabine River. Built and owned by the Sabine River Authority and financed through a water-supply contract with Dallas, it was engineered to slake the thirst of a growing region. During its creation, prehistoric animal bones and remains of a Tawakoni Indian village were unearthed, recalling the Native people whose name the lake carries.

Denison, TX

Completed in 1944, Lake Texoma was formed when Denison Dam impounded the Red River, creating one of the largest reservoirs in the nation for flood control, power, and recreation. Its creation was championed by Congressman Sam Rayburn, the long-serving Speaker of the House, and it flooded historic sites including Preston, once the Red River crossing of the Butterfield Stage. Straddling Texas and Oklahoma, it drew millions of visitors and gave its name to a nearby state park honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Quitaque, TX

Stone tools found on the shores of Lake Theo in 1965 and 1972 led to 1974 excavations that uncovered a campsite and bison-butchering ground used by Folsom people between roughly 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. Buried four feet deep were projectile points, scrapers, and more than 500 bones from an extinct form of bison. Spring-fed ponds in the now-submerged Holmes Canyon likely drew both the great herds and the hunters who followed them.

Burnet, TX

Chartered in December 1909 and sponsored by the nearby Robert E. Lee Lodge, Lake Victor Lodge No. 1011 held its first meeting on New Year's Day 1910 in a rented building. The Masons erected their own hall on this site in 1914 and continued meeting there through the 20th century, reaching their peak membership in the mid-1950s. In keeping with Masonic custom, the lodge has long supported charitable causes.

Port Arthur, TX

When the Port Arthur Townsite Company laid out the new Gulf Coast city in 1898, it reserved this shoreline park along Sabine Lake. Renamed in part for the Lions Club in 1920, the grounds gained playground equipment, fountains, landscaping, and a two-story colonial-style bandstand that became the hub of community life. Its stage drew campaigning politicians—including future governors Allan Shivers and W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel with his Light Crust Doughboys band—before the park passed to Lamar University in 1989.

Eagle Lake, TX

Texas sugar-making, born before the Civil War, roared back to life around 1900 thanks to cheaper refining methods and the drive of Colorado County planter William Dunovant. He and his partners built the Cane Belt Railroad to haul cane, then erected this refinery about 1902; at its height it processed up to 1,000 tons of cane a day and turned out five million pounds of refined sugar a year. A little train nicknamed the "Whangdoodle" fed the mill from surrounding fields. But after a peak season in 1908–09, tropical storms, an early freeze, and a new law banning convict labor broke the industry, and the plant was dismantled in 1918 and shipped off to Jamaica.

Petersburg, TX

Lakeview School grew from two pioneer schoolhouses — Ivey, opened in 1892, and Star, opened in 1904 — that were physically hauled together onto this site in 1914 and joined into one building. A town soon gathered around it, boasting two churches, a gin, stores, and a garage at its 1920s–30s peak. When the school closed in 1943 the community faded, leaving only a church and a foundation on the plains.

Mirando City, TX

Born near San Luis Potosí, Mexico, in 1910, Eduarda "Lala" Banda immigrated with her family and grew up in the oil boomtown of Mirando City. Widowed young with two children, she supported them by cooking for local families, mastering a wide range of dishes. On the last day of 1953 she opened Lala's Café in a small four-room house, and its handmade tortillas drew customers from miles around — including airmen from Laredo Air Force Base — earning notice in newspapers and Texas Monthly.

Greenville, TX

When her husband, the county clerk, died in 1902, Lallie P. Carlisle was appointed by the Commissioners' Court to finish his term — becoming the first woman in Texas to hold an elective public office. Remarkably, she did so at a time when women in Texas could not yet vote, and the state Attorney General had to affirm that her appointment was valid.

Crosbyton, TX

This site first held the Crosbyton Inn, a two-story frame hotel built in 1908 by the C.B. Livestock Company to lure land buyers and promote the region for cotton farming. A magnet for travelers on the South Plains, it was rebuilt over its original basement after an early fire and finally razed in the 1920s. In 1926 a brick office and apartment block rose in its place, later bought and renamed for W. P. Lamar in 1944.

Fulton, TX

This burial ground served the pioneers of Lamar, the coastal town founded by Irish-born Texas Revolution veteran James W. Byrne, who named it for his friend Mirabeau B. Lamar, president of the Republic of Texas. Its earliest grave belongs to Patrick O'Connor, a bookkeeper who had worked for Byrne in New Orleans. After the town of Lamar vanished by 1915, the neglected cemetery was rescued and restored in the 1940s.

Paris, TX

Carved from Red River County in 1840 and organized the following year, Lamar County honors Mirabeau B. Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas and a champion of public education remembered as the 'Father of Texas education.' The county seat wandered in its early years — from Lafayette to Mount Vernon before settling at Paris, a town first known by the homely name Pinhook.

Paris, TX

The great fire of March 1916 gutted Lamar County's massive 1897 Romanesque courthouse, once believed indestructible. Within weeks the commissioners hired local builders alongside the Fort Worth firm of Sanguinet & Staats, and by late 1917 a new fireproof concrete courthouse rose on the old foundation, sheathed in rough pink granite salvaged from the ruins. Its Classical design — corner pavilions, engaged columns, terra-cotta eagles, and triple-arched entries — anchored a downtown rebuilt in modern form.

Paris, TX

In 1911 five Paris businessmen each put up a hundred dollars to launch the Lamar County Fair Association, borrowing land from Henry Clement to raise the first fair buildings. The grounds proved more than a showplace for prize livestock and produce—after a devastating fire swept Paris in 1916, the fair became an emergency relief camp for the displaced. The 1921 coliseum, designed by architect J. L. Wees, went on to host decades of community gatherings.

Paris, TX

Lamar County sat on the uneasy northern edge of Texas during the Civil War, a farming and transport hub near the Red River and Indian Territory. Notably, its delegation cast the only unanimous vote against secession at the state convention, and county voters likewise opposed it—yet once war came, the county raised at least nine combat companies, including the 9th Texas Infantry that bled at Shiloh and later served in Hood's Texas Brigade. Local men rose to Confederate general's rank, and cattleman John Chisum supplied beef to the armies.

Crosbyton, TX

In 1892 young William Percy Lamar came with his parents from Tarrant County to a 160-acre homestead in Crosby County, and after marrying Sarah Elzina Henson in 1912 the couple prospered through farming, dairying, stock raising, and business. In 1957 Elzina established the Percy and Zina Lamar Foundation, whose gifts built and sustained the county's pioneer museum and community center along with a Masonic hall and Methodist charities. The marker stands as a tribute to the family and to all West Texas pioneers.

McAllen, TX

Approved by the McAllen School Board in 1938 and funded through a bond election and the Public Works Administration, Lamar was built to architect Marion Lee Waller's clever pre-air-conditioning design—an L-shaped plan one room deep, with classrooms opening onto breezeways for maximum airflow. It served as a high school for only five years before a new campus opened, after which it continued as a junior high. The Spanish Colonial Revival building features a buff-brick exterior, clay-tile roof, and cast-stone detailing.

Plainview, TX

Plainview's first schoolhouse, a half-dugout sod building, went up in 1887, the year the town was founded, and doubled as a community center where local churches were organized. A Masonic-built frame structure followed, briefly styled the Llano Estacado Institute, until fire destroyed it in 1902. The reorganized school was renamed for Mirabeau B. Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas and a champion of public education.

Rockport, TX

Organized in 1963 by a group of concerned citizens, the Lamar Volunteer Fire Department took on far more than fire, its volunteers standing watch over hurricanes, patrolling beaches, and working alongside the Aransas County Emergency Corps. Land was leased for a station in 1964, and the all-volunteer company ran for decades on donations and fundraisers. For generations it has protected life and property along the storm-prone Aransas County coast.

Olton, TX

Lamb County was carved from earlier territories and created in 1876, though it wasn't formally organized until 1908, with Olton as its first county seat. It honors George A. Lamb, a young second lieutenant who fell in the opening charge of the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 — the decisive fight that won Texas its independence. His name binds this High Plains county to the revolution that made Texas a republic.

Springlake, TX

This 130-mile chain of dunes is a natural landmark with deep human history: archaeological evidence shows people lived here some 6,000 years ago. Comanches later camped among the hills, drawn by game, vegetation, shelter from the wind, and water, and the old Indian trails they followed were adopted by Spanish explorers and, later, Anglo-American settlers. Early ranching left the dunes largely intact, though intensive modern farming and industry have since taken a heavy toll.

Humble, TX

When drillers went looking for oil at this Humble site in 1912, they struck free-flowing artesian water instead. German-born Nick Lambrecht, who had installed a town water system in 1904 and served as justice of the peace and mayor during Humble's oil-boom years, bought the property and put the well to work — supplying bathhouses and piping water to nearby homes in a town that had once hauled its water in barrels by wagon.

Lamesa, TX

As Dawson County's cotton economy outgrew its labor supply in the 1920s, the region came to depend on migrant workers from Mexico, and in 1942 the federal Farm Security Administration opened the Lamesa Farm Workers Community to house them. Unusually well appointed—with indoor plumbing, running water, a clinic, a nursery, and schools—the camp asked no rent, only upkeep and contributions to a welfare fund, while families harvested cotton and worked the gins and mills. Amid long workdays they kept their bicultural life alive with baseball, Conjunto music, and both Mexican and American holidays, until the Ybanez family bought the site in 1980 as low-income housing, today's Los Ybanez.

Lamkin, TX

Founded in 1870 on the Leon River and named for landowner George Lamkin, this Comanche County town weathered repeated floods and fires as its pioneer merchants stubbornly rebuilt. After the 1908 flood forced a move to higher ground, the arrival of the Cotton Belt Railroad turned Lamkin into a booming shipping center, with gins, banks, stores, and a school whose basketball team ran off four straight county titles. Fire in 1922 and the railroad's departure in 1936 finally emptied the town, leaving a ghost of its bustling heyday.

Lampasas, TX

The oldest public school building in Lampasas began as a schoolhouse for African American students in 1898, replaced by this limestone building erected in 1923 during the era of segregated education. For years its pupils could study only through the tenth grade locally, traveling to larger cities to finish high school, until the school was finally allowed to teach twelve grades in 1951. It closed with integration in 1963, and citizens rescued it from demolition in 2001.

Lampasas, TX

Lampasas County was organized in 1856, formed from Travis and Bell counties as Anglo settlement pushed up the Texas rivers in the years before the Civil War. Its name derives from Lampazos, the Spanish name for the local river, said to refer to the cockle-burs that grew thickly along its banks. First settled around 1850, the county grew steadily and gained its first railroad in 1882, with the town of Lampasas as its seat.

Lampasas, TX

After the legislature created Lampasas County in 1856, business shuffled through borrowed rooms until the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad reached the county seat in 1882 and touched off a boom. The commissioners hired Waco architect Wesley Clark Dodson, whose Second Empire and Italianate design — crowned by a clock tower and mansard roof — was completed in 1884 with a Seth Thomas clock installed the same year. Floods in 1936 and 1957 damaged but never displaced the stately building.

Lampasas, TX

Raised in 1883 of native stone with Romanesque trim, this county jail was a substantial statement of law and permanence in still-young Lampasas County. Later stuccoed over, it still holds the supports of its interior scaffold. It was recognized as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1965.

Lampasas, TX

Organized in 1856 with barely a thousand residents, Lampasas County voted narrowly for secession in 1861 and sent its men into Confederate and Texas state units during the Civil War. Those who stayed behind mustered as Minute Men to guard the home front, then returned to help wives and children tend the cattle and crops. All the while this remained a raw frontier, where the war overlapped with raids as Indians took horses and killed hunters.

Lampasas, TX

Beginning in the late 1880s with two hose-reel companies and a hook-and-ladder crew, the Lampasas Volunteer Fire Department became a fixture of the growing Central Texas town. Its members battled serious blazes and pitched in during several disastrous floods over the years. Each Christmas Eve, the department turned its big red trucks to a different mission, carrying food and clothing to families in need.

Temple, TX

Thomas Lancaster, a farmer and rancher who reached Bell County in 1851, set aside land beside Little Elm Creek as a community burial ground; his own 1867 grave is the oldest marked one among more than 175 documented burials. A cemetery association formed in 1977 to fence, improve and preserve the historic graveyard.

Lancaster, TX

Lancaster's first log school rose in 1846 near the settlement of Hardscrabble, and as families arrived the Masonic Lodge and other buildings served the growing community. In 1868 a former Confederate gun factory became the town's first school for African Americans, and by 1876 a formal school district had organized under local trustees. Through a Female Institute, a chartered district, WPA-funded athletics, and integration in 1965-66, the town wove a continuous thread of public education.

Saratoga, TX

Born in the heart of the Big Thicket, Lance Rosier grew up in Saratoga soaking in the tales of roughnecks and pioneers at his aunt's Vines Hotel and roaming the surrounding woods. A self-taught naturalist, the man known as "Mr. Big Thicket" guided scientists, photographers, and politicians through the dense East Texas wilderness, mastering its flora and fauna along the way. He helped bridge the region's early conservation efforts, though he died in 1970, just before his dream of a protected national area came true.

Jarrell, TX

This Williamson County burial ground first served Corn Hill, a settlement named by county judge John E. King for the cornfields around his home, which by the 1880s boasted a post office, cotton gins, mills, and a newspaper. Settlers Nicholas and Elizabeth Ann Land began the cemetery in 1863 with the burial of their son and soon opened it to neighbors; a cemetery association bought the grounds in 1886. When the railroad bypassed Corn Hill in 1909, the new town of Jarrell rose along the tracks, and its residents adopted the same cemetery—later scarred by the deadly 1997 F5 tornado.

Fort Worth, TX

Designed by the pioneering firm of Haggart and Sanguinet and raised in 1889, the Land Title Building brought a rare ornamental style to a young, fast-growing Fort Worth. Built of brick, sandstone, and cast iron with rounded arches, it carried what is remembered as the city's first stone carving—a small owl—and the initials of the lawyers who kept offices above the title firm. It survives as a marker of the boomtown's early architectural ambition.

New Braunfels, TX

Joseph Landa bought this land around the Comal Springs—the largest springs in the American Southwest—in 1859 and harnessed the Comal River to power gristmills, textile factories, an ice plant, and a brewery, even a Civil War saltpeter works. His son Harry opened Landa's Park as a tourist resort in 1898, and excursion trains soon brought crowds for picnics, dancing, and steamboat rides. After financial troubles closed it, New Braunfels citizens voted overwhelmingly to buy the park in 1936, and WPA crews added lasting improvements.

Galveston, TX

Confederate veteran and capitalist Henry A. Landes had this exuberant Victorian house built in 1887–88 to designs by architects George E. Dickey and D. A. Helmich, its terra cotta, brickwork, ironwork, towers, and parapet showing off Romanesque accents. The house reportedly sheltered some 200 people during the catastrophic 1900 Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Later owned by ironworks businessman John P. McDonough and then the Dominican Sisters, it long housed a fine arts center.

Castroville, TX

These weathered limestone buildings rose beside the Medina River ford on the old Eagle Pass–San Antonio road, where Alsatian colonist Michel Simon settled in 1844 as part of Henri Castro's immigrant colony. Later owners turned a home and store into a wash house, residence, and two-story hotel, while a riverside mill built in 1854 was modernized over the years and even generated hydroelectricity by the 1920s. Ruth Lawler kept up the old tradition of hospitality at her "Landmark Inn" before deeding it to the state in 1974.

San Benito, TX

This house stands on the Concepción de Carricitos grant, land deeded by the king of Spain in 1781 to Eugenio and Bartolomé Fernández — a reminder of the Spanish colonial roots of the lower Rio Grande valley. Brownsville attorney Col. Stephen Powers acquired part of the grant as a legal fee and gave the site to his daughter Frances and her husband James Lambert Landrum, who completed the home in 1902. Generations of the Landrum family lived here, tying a modern residence to a land title nearly two centuries old.

Celeste, TX

Robert W. Lane's 1866 general store seeded a dispersed farming settlement that soon earned a post office, Methodist and Baptist churches, schools, and a cotton gin. Though burials had already taken place here, families formally dedicated a community cemetery in 1882. Among those interred is Jim Clymer, who used gold-rush wealth to buy the North Texas land that survives today as the Clymer Meadow blackland prairie preserve.

Lewisville, TX

In 1882 Anthony Hembry and six charter members—all formerly enslaved—organized this Colored Methodist Episcopal congregation in Lewisville, then home to Denton County's largest African American population. Renamed Lane Chapel in 1902 for Bishop Isaac Lane, the church became a vital social anchor and helped spawn other C.M.E. congregations. As Black residents left for the cities during the Great Migration of the 1920s–40s, membership shrank, but the devotion of its members and support from sister churches carried Lane Chapel to a revival by the new century.

Fort Worth, TX

Italian immigrant John B. Laneri settled in Fort Worth in 1883 and rose to become a leading businessman and civic figure, founding the O.B. Macaroni Company and a private boys' school known as Laneri College. In 1904 he built this classically detailed brick home, with fine interior woodwork, in one of the city's most fashionable neighborhoods, living there until his death in 1935.

Clifton, TX

Pioneer settler Joshua McCuistion donated this Bosque County land for a Methodist chapel to serve the community of Hollis Prairie. Built about 1880 next to a schoolhouse by John R. Lane and his sons — for whom the settlement was later named — it held regular services until 1960. A memorial association now maintains the building and grounds, and a homecoming gathers here each June.