Edna Hill Community

Edna Hill's school is the thread. The Handbook of Texas says a school was operating by 1900, four years before the plaque's date for the school built on Brack Salyer's land, and that a cotton gin followed soon after. In 1935 the school had three teachers and eighty-five pupils. By 1940 the community had a school, two churches and scattered dwellings, and the school was consolidated with Dublin's in the 1940s. The Handbook estimated thirty-two residents in 1966 and again in 2000, and found only a church and scattered dwellings in 1979.

What the plaque says

Edna Hill Community Abundant grassland, timber, and water induced pioneers to settle in this area of Texas's western Cross Timbers region in the 1850s. Ranching and cotton production dominated early land use. Barbee Cemetery was established nearby about 1863. A community developed near a school built here in 1904 on land donated by Brack Salyer. The school and community were named for Salyer's granddaughter Edna Wilson. The 1930s depression continued a decline of Edna Hill which began in the 1920s. By the early 1990s all that remained was Baptist church, community center, and a few homes. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dublin Bottling Works — 9.0 mi
  The Erath County plant that bottled Dr Pepper with cane sugar from 1891 until a 2012 settlement ended its Dr Pepper license, and that still makes its own sodas the same way.
• Hamilton County Courthouse — 21 mi
  A limestone courthouse of 1886-87 on the Hamilton square, built after the county's 1878 courthouse burned, enlarged in the early 1930s and rededicated in 2012 after restoration.

More markers nearby

• Pecan Cemetery — 5.6 mi
• Proctor Cemetery — 6.0 mi
• Gustine — 8.8 mi
• Cora — 8.8 mi