Birthplace of Stanley Walker

Walker went to the Unity Community country school near School Creek and graduated from Lampasas High School before studying journalism at the University of Texas. In New York he became city editor of the Herald Tribune in 1928, and his views on the job became required reading in some journalism schools. He married Mary Louise Sandefer in 1923. Disenchanted with postwar New York, he came home to the ranch in January 1946 and explained why in "Farewell to New York" in the Saturday Evening Post that August. Home to Texas followed in 1956.

What the plaque says

Birthplace of Stanley Walker (1898 - 1962) Noted Texas journalist and editor. Began his career in Austin and Dallas. From 1920 to 1935 was with New York "Herald-Tribune", where as City Editor he trained many writers. Also was on staff of Philadelphia "Ledger". He wrote "The Night Club Era", "Mrs. Astor's Horse", 5 other books, many articles. Spent last years here. (1966)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 12 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Colorado Bend State Park — 22 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.

More markers nearby

• School Creek Baptist Church — 3.4 mi
• Townsen's Mill — 4.4 mi
• Adamsville — 5.1 mi
• United Presbyterian Church of Adamsville — 5.2 mi