Site of Nix Mill - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This historic marker is the center of three in front of a private home near the banks of the Nueces River on the edge of the tiny Edwards Co. community of Barksdale. It preserves the history of the Nix Mill, which was once located nearby on the Nueces.

Marker Number: 4841 Marker Text: (1885-1926) Built by John L. Nix (1842-1915) to cut rawhide lumber, grind corn and wheat, and gin cotton. Upper floor housed gin; lower, grist mill. On east side was sawmill with wood furnace and boiler to furnish steam power. Furnace was fed cedar and oak wood. Spanish oaks, white oaks, and elms from Nueces River watercourse were sawed into the rawhide lumber from which were built town's wagon yard, feed stalls, a dance hall, and other structures. After Nix, successive owners were J. L. Jackson, W. D. Hutcherson, Edward Miller, Matthew Taylor, and O. C. Henderson. (1972)

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