Anderson's Mill

Thomas Anderson's mill stood on Cypress Creek about sixteen miles northwest of Austin. After the war he turned the powder works into a gristmill, and farmers sometimes camped for days to wait their turn. In the early 1870s he added a cotton gin, and in 1876 a post office opened with Anderson as postmaster. The community counted thirty people in 1884, when the office closed and mail went to Duval. Steam-powered mills and gins slowly put him out of business, and after his death in 1894 his family sold the equipment.

What the plaque says

Anderson's Mill Built in 1863 - by - Thomas Anderson - A native of Pennsylvania - Used as a powder mill - For the Confederate Armies - During the Civil War - Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Bonnell — 10 mi
  Austin's old lookout over the Colorado, named by an 1838 traveler, picnicked on by George and Libbie Custer, and reached by a 1939 flight of about 100 limestone steps.
• Harry Ransom Center — 13 mi
  The University of Texas archive where a Gutenberg Bible and the earliest surviving camera photograph are always on view, free, beside the papers of Watergate and the movies.
• Barton Springs Pool — 13 mi
  A three-acre pool in the bed of Barton Creek, fed by the fourth-largest spring in Texas at 68 to 70 degrees, and shared with an endangered salamander found almost nowhere else.
• Bullock Texas State History Museum — 13 mi
  The state's history museum at the head of Congress Avenue, built around the hull of La Salle's ship La Belle, raised from Matagorda Bay with 1.8 million artifacts.

More markers nearby

• Hudson Bend — 3.6 mi
• Community of Nameless — 6.9 mi
• Lohmans Crossing — 7.1 mi
• Balcones Fault Aids Colonization of Texas — 7.4 mi