Edna Hill Community
N 31° 57.281 W 098° 19.648
14R E 563556 N 3535610
Texas Historical Marker for the Edna Hill community, ten miles south of Dublin on FM 1702, providing some history of this community that still has some life to it, despite what the marker says.
Waymark Code: WM13HME
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/19/2020
Views: 4
The marker faces the highway at its intersection with Erath County Rd 328, and the Baptist church and community center are just to the west.
Marker Number: 1392
Marker Text:
Abundant grassland, timber, and water induced pioneers to settle in this area of Texas's western Cross Timbers region in the 1850s. Ranching and cotton production dominated early land use. Barbee Cemetery was established nearby about 1863. A community developed near a school built here in 1904 on land donated by Brack Salyer. The school and community were named for Salyer's granddaughter Edna Wilson. The 1930s depression continued a decline of Edna Hill which began in the 1920s. By the early 1990s all that remained was a Baptist church, community center, and a few homes. (1994)
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