On Farm to Market Road 1161, 0.4 miles east of Farm to Market Road 102, on the right when traveling east.
A crossroads for trade and travel in the earliest years of Anglo settlement in Texas, Egypt is considered the oldest remaining community in Wharton County. In 1826, Eli Mercer established a home and ferry crossing on the east bank of the Colorado . . . — — Map (db m191907) HM
On Farm to Market Road 1161, 0.4 miles east of Farm to Market Road 102, on the right when traveling east.
William Jones Elliott Heard was born in Tennessee in 1801, the first of Stephen R. and Jemima M. Heard's nine children. Sometime in the 1820s Heard moved to Alabama where he married America Morton.
Heard received a land certificate from . . . — — Map (db m191904) HM