On Farm to Market Road 1677 at County Road 309, on the right when traveling south on Road 1677.
Founded about 1899. Named for Wm. M. Pumphrey (1849-1937), early settler. A deacon of the Baptist Church, he would put his organ in a wagon on weekends and take it, his wife and 11 children to attend services in Wingate.
In 1900, as the . . . — — Map (db m81912) HM
On Farm to Market Road 383 south of County Road 378, on the right when traveling south.
Mazeland (2½ mi. SW) was founded in 1903 when a post office and store opened on A.B. Hutchinson’s ranch. Community was probably named for the corn or “maize” which grows in the area. A one-room school, built 1 mi. W. (1904), later . . . — — Map (db m81913) HM
On Farm to Market Road 1086 0.1 miles west of U.S. 277, on the right when traveling west.
Near this site, an important link in the frontier transportation system was an area landmark. The Butterfield Overland Mail maintained a stage stop at the falls and crossing of Valley Creek beginning in 1858. The twice-weekly mail and passenger line . . . — — Map (db m77995) HM
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