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 Rock House Community Posted by:  QuesterMark
N 30° 42.289 W 097° 52.328
14R E 608006 N 3397431
This marker is at the intersection of CR 257 and FM 3405 just east of SH 183.
Waymark Code: WM96EG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/05/2010
Views: 10
Marker erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry: Rock House Community
Address: FM 3405
City: Liberty Hill
County: Williamson
Subject Codes: settlements; ghost towns
Marker Location: 5 mi. NE, FM 3405 at CR 257
Marker Size: 27" x 42"
Marker Number: 9329
Marker Text:
(0.8 mi.S)
A pioneer agricultural community of Williamson County, this site was first settled in the late 1840s by Uriah H. Anderson, a native of Tennessee who received a land grant here from the state of Texas. By 1875 a rural school was in operation and classes were held in the Bethel Church sanctuary. The settlement was named for the stone structure, which was known as the Rock House.
Another church, Macedonia, which later became a Missionary Baptist congregation, was organized in 1873. Early services and camp meetings were conducted in a tabernacle. The settlement also included a general store started about 1885 by T. C. Sowell, The village was later the site of a grist mill, a blacksmith shop, an active farmers' union, and a string band. A post office was opened in 1890 under the name of Draco, an Indian word for the area meaning "favorite place." It closed two years later.
The school continued until the 1940s when it was consolidated with Liberty Hill (5 mi.SW). The general store, later owned by other residents of the area, was in operation until 1960. All that remains of the original townsite is the Rock House Cemetery and the evidence of early buildings.
(1981)
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