Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley

Colleyville's spelling took a few tries. The Handbook of Texas calls the doctor Hilburn or Lilburn Howard Colley and says he practiced in the area for forty years. A community grew around a store founded in 1914 south of Bransford, and it was first known as Coleysville before becoming Colleyville. The town incorporated in 1956 with a population of about a hundred two years later and 1,491 by 1964. In the early 1980s residents split between limiting building to large-lot single-family homes and allowing smaller lots and multifamily housing.

What the plaque says

Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley A veteran of the Union Army during the Civil War, Dr. L.H. Colley (1843-1924) and his wife, Martha Sabrina (Fowks) (1860-1914), migrated from Missouri to Texas in 1880. They settled in Bransford Community in 1885, where Dr. Colley became a respected physician and an election official for the Pleasant Run School District. In 1914, when Walter G. Couch opened a grocery store in a two-room building near the Colley's home, Dr. Colley suggested naming the area Colleyville. The community has grown to include Bransford, Old Union, Pleasant Glade, Pleasant Run and Spring Garden. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Worth Stockyards — 13 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 14 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 15 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 16 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

More markers nearby

• Bransford — 0.9 mi
• Florence School — 3.0 mi
• Bedford Cemetery — 3.1 mi
• Alfred Madison Hightower — 3.3 mi