Oakalla
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This post-mounted marker stands at the edge of the parking lot next to a shop on Main Street (FM 963) in Oakalla.
Waymark Code: WMPXCN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2015
Views: 2
Marker erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry Oakalla
City Oakalla
County Burnet
Subject Codes cities and towns
Year Marker Erected 1979
Marker Location Main St. (FM 963)
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 9736
Marker Text:
The first settlers in this rich farm and ranch land arrived in the 1850s. Oakalla Post Office was established May 19, 1879. Schools were private until a cooperative was built which provided classrooms on the second floor. Oakalla boasted a doctor, drugstore, blacksmith shop, and a cotton gin by 1881. The two-acre school site was deeded in 1890. Worship was held in the schoolhouse and in brush arbors until 1908 when Oakalla Baptist Church erected a meetinghouse. The school consolidated in 1958 with Lampasas and the building became a community center. (1979)
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