Bryant Station

The Handbook of Texas dates Bryant Station to 1840, when Benjamin Bryant raised a fort on the Little River to shield settlers, and says a village grew around it. Traffic kept it alive: the Marlin-to-Austin stage line ran through, and for a time the place was a commercial center. Its post office opened and closed several times between 1848 and 1876, and was called Blackland for the last two of those years. The Santa Fe railroad of 1881 missed the village by three miles, and Buckholts took its trade. Bryant lies in the State Cemetery.

What the plaque says

Bryant Station Pioneer village of Milam County established as an Indian trading post by Major Benjamin F. Bryant, frontiersman who had commanded a company in the Battle of San Jacinto. Appointed Indian Agent in 1842 by Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas. Little River Crossing on trail and stage routes. U. S. Post Office, 1848-1874

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Milam County Courthouse and Jail — 13 mi
  Cameron's 1892 Renaissance Revival courthouse and the 1895 St. Louis-built jail beside it, now the county museum, are listed together on the National Register.
• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 16 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.

More markers nearby

• First United Methodist Church of Rogers — 2.8 mi
• Joseph "Joe Tex" Arrington, Jr. — 2.9 mi
• Alvin Ailey — 2.9 mi
• Site of New Colony School — 3.8 mi