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ROCK HOUSE
ROCK HOUSE, TEXAS est. 1878
Census statistics
unavailable
Rock House School, 1910s – 1920s. The school was one of the larger rural schools
in the county in the early twentieth century. The Rock House community was also
known as “Draco,” the name for the village that occupied the site before Anglo
settlement.
Courtesy
of Ralph D. Love
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Rock House Community School, 1920's
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1mile off SH 29 on FM3405
Rock House Community
- Historical Marker
(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.
old stone house
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more info
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Rock
House, Texas by
The Handbook of Texas Online
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