On Ovilla Road just north of Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
Area residents organized a Baptist
church in September 1903. The next
year, the community built a wooden
tabernacle on Red Oak Creek for use by
local churches, including the Baptist
congregation, which participated in
regular services and . . . — — Map (db m244904) HM
On Main Street just west of Ovilla Road, on the left when traveling west.
Site of the Ovilla Cotton Gin, Established in 1885.
It was the focal point of Ovilla industry as the community
farmed cotton as their primary crop. The gin closed in 1966.
The only remaining structure from the gin is the scale,
which still . . . — — Map (db m244886) HM
On Ovilla Road (Road 664) at Main Street, on the right when traveling south on Ovilla Road.
One of the oldest communities in Ellis County, Ovilla began as a fortified settlement built in 1844 on upper Red Oak Creek. Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1847 and the town's first schoolhouse was erected in 1849. By the turn . . . — — Map (db m182909) HM
On Red Oak Creek Drive at Clinton Lane, on the right when traveling south on Red Oak Creek Drive.
The Ovilla community was founded by members of the Peters Colony in 1844. Benjamin and Erixna Caroline McFarlin were among the early members of the thriving farm community. On November 17, 1886, they deeded four acres to the new Ovilla Methodist . . . — — Map (db m182907) HM
On Ovilla Road at Shiloh Road, on the left when traveling north on Ovilla Road.
The first organized church in Ellis County, the Shiloh
Cumberland Presbyterian Congregation was chartered
with twenty members on July 25, 1847, two years
before the formation of the county. The church was
begun under the leadership of the . . . — — Map (db m244957) HM
