Gay hill texas

A third Gay Hill once existed in Milam County seven miles west of Rockdale but has since disappeared without a trace. Texas Counties. By there were only people and in the s it was an estimated The last store in Gay Hill closed in TE Photo, This community grew around a plantation dating back to the Republic of Texas.

Washington County. Texas Escapesin its purpose to preserve historic, endangered and vanishing Texas, asks that anyone wishing to share their local history, stories, landmarks and recent or vintage photos, please contact us. The town was an educational and religious center on the La Bahía Road in early Texas.

Gay Hill is a historic town with strong business and cultural ties to Independence, Texas. Residents included Horatio Chriesman, R. Baylor, and John Sayles. All Rights Reserved. Gay Hill is on Farm Road twelve miles northwest of Brenham in the rolling hills of northern Washington County.

Ranching replaced cotton production and Brenham siphoned off Gay Hill population. In Gay Hill had a population of about Gay Hill had a respectable population of persons in with ten businesses. Inthe second oldest Presbyterian church in Texas was established here by Reverend Hugh Wilson (–).

Rev. Hugh Wilson established the second Presbyterian church in Texas there in Presbyterians from throughout the republic met in the community, then known.

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Texas Towns A - Z. Brenham Hotels More Hotels. Once known as Chriesman Settlement - the name was changed when the Republic of Texas established a post office in the town sometime before Thomas Gay, a partner in the local store was the namesake of the town.

Custom Search. A year later, inthe Republic of Texas established a post office and renamed it 'Gay Hill' in honor of Thomas Gay and William Carroll Jackson Hill, who owned the general store. Welcome to Texas Escapes A magazine written by Texas.

Home ». Once known as Chriesman Settlement - the name was changed when the Republic of Texas established a post office in the town sometime before Gay Hill, TX (Washington County).