Methodists in this area trace their history to the 1840s. When circuit-riding preachers began holding camp meetings on a near-by farm. In 1889, after the railroad caused Valley Mills to relocate south of the Bosque River, the Methodists built their . . . — — Map (db m233633) HM
Pioneer area settler Joshua McCuistion donated land at this site for a Methodist chapel to serve the community of Hollis Prairie. Completed about 1880 adjacent to a schoolhouse, it was built by John R. Lane and his sons, for whom the settlement was . . . — — Map (db m84910) HM
Tennessee native Roden Taylor Crain, a member of Capt. William Kimbro's company of San Augustine County volunteers, was a soldier in the struggle for Texas Independence from Mexico. He fought at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, and later . . . — — Map (db m233706) HM
By the mid-1850s, F.F. Bloodworth had built a log cabin in the early Valley Mills settlement which served as a school, community meeting place, and the Liberty Hill Baptist Church. In 1855, that congregation had ten charter members but grew to 38 . . . — — Map (db m233702) HM
A standard No. 9 combination freight passenger depot, built in 1910 on Temple-Cleburne line of Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway.
Local social center, especially at train time, when in pre-radio and tv era the conductor brought late news, or . . . — — Map (db m233635) HM
