Searsville Baptist Church · 1962
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View on map ↗Bosque County, Texas
Historical Markers in Valley Mills, Texas
Valley Mills is home to 14 official Texas Historical Commission markers — each one telling a piece of the city’s story. Browse the markers below, then find them on the map and discover more nearby with RoadHistorical.
Valley Mills Santa Fe Railway Depot · 1973
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…
View on map ↗Rock Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church · 1975
The Rev. James B. Sadler (1828-1911), a self-educated former slave, started this black congregation in 1870 and helped establish a separate black Presbytery in 1876. Worship services were held in a nearby brush arbor or…
View on map ↗Odle Log Cabin · 1978
A native of Tennessee, pioneer John Odle (1824-1913) moved to Texas in 1843, one year after his marriage to Lucinda Reeder (d. 1890). They came to this area in 1856 and built this cabin of oak logs about 1860. They…
View on map ↗Pool-Tibbs House · 1978
S. A. Pool built this residence, a store, and a cotton gin on the river bank in 1870, when the town of Valley Mills stood on the north side of the Bosque. The building stone came from nearby Fitzhugh Hill. Robert A.…
View on map ↗Goodall Cemetery · 1979
In 1846, W.H. Everett of Yellville, Marion County, Arkansas, settled on this 320 acres. He set aside this cemetery at the death of Sarah Hornbeak (1847-1851), daughter of Samuel and Harriet Hornbeak. In 1853 Everett…
View on map ↗Roden Taylor Crain · 1987
(April 29, 1819-July 20, 1891) 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…
View on map ↗Poston-Odle Cemetery · 1989
One of the earliest settlements in this area was established in the 1850s along Hog Creek. A rock building used for a school and church was erected, and the area became known as Rock Church on Hog Creek. The family of…
View on map ↗Original Site of Valley Mills · 1990
A. H. Steagall and Dr. E. P. Booth purchased 300 acres of land on the north side of the Bosque River in 1868. They mapped out and platted a townsite, which they named Valley Mills. As settlers began arriving in the…
View on map ↗First Methodist Church of Valley Mills · 1991
Methodists in this area trace their history to the 1840s, when circuit-riding preachers began holding camp meetings on a nearby farm. In 1889, after the railroad caused Valley Mills to relocate south of the Bosque…
View on map ↗Lowry Hampton Scrutchfield · 1999
(June 11, 1824 - November 2, 1900) Born in Nacogdoches in 1824 to Fleming and Nancy Pool Scrutchfield, Lowry H. Scrutchfield moved to Nashville on the Brazos with his widowed mother about 1834. In 1845 he met George B.…
View on map ↗Coon Creek · 2017
The Coon Creek Community evolved from the old Cyrus Community, the oldest settlement in southeastern Bosque County. The first settler was Temple Spivey who purchased land on the Brazos River in 1853. In January 1856,…
View on map ↗Valley Mills Cemetery · 2018
Left of Entrance Sign (Middle Road)
View on map ↗Cayote Community · 2019
On property of Cayote United Methodist Church, 8.1 miles north of Valley Mills on FM 56, about one half mile north of Childress Creek Bridge.
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