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 Edge Community
N 30° 53.410 W 096° 17.686
14R E 758599 N 3420565
Texas Historical Marker at the Edge General Store at 7250 Edge Cut Off Rd, providing some history of Edge's establishment, rise, growth, and then evolution into a nice rural community.
Waymark Code: WM1A9A7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2024
Views: 2
The Edge General Store is supposed to have a great burger.
Marker Number: 23268
Marker Text:
In its earliest days, the Edge community was a rural neighborhood comprised of pioneer settlers of English, Irish, German, Czech, African, or African American descent. Among these settlers were the three Edge brothers. Warren Lee Edge (1846-1916) was the first of the brothers to settle in the area. In 1866, he and his wife, Jane H. (Cloud), moved from Georgia to Brazos County and purchased land to farm and raise a family. William H.H. Edge (1838-1891) moved with his wife, Sarah (McHaley), and family in 1876, and in 1879 Dr. John Simpson Edge (1852-1920), and his wife, Ella Jean (Hudson), settled here. Dr. J.S. Edge was a pioneer doctor who served the region on horseback or buggy and is credited with officially establishing and naming the town when he founded a post office in 1894.
By 1898, the town of Edge had three stores, a blacksmith shop, two gins, a sawmill and four churches. It was surrounded by farmland and most families in the area were farmers with large gardens to feed themselves and barter for goods. Many of the Black residents of Edge were brought to the area as enslaved people who then became tenant farmers or bought land from former owners.
Schools in the area included Liberty School, Concord School and Edge High School, which was built in 1912 and burned in 1940. As Edge grew, it absorbed smaller communities such as Concord and Liberty and, in 1946, the school merged with the nearby Kurten School. The Kurten School closed by the late 1960s, and children were bused into Bryan. The post office, which was located inside the general store, closed in 1957 and by the 1970s, the once booming farm town became a quiet rural community. (2021)
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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