Elgin Lodge No. 328, A. F. & A. M.

Perryville stood on land granted to Elizabeth Standifer in 1829 in Austin's Little Colony, where her daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and John Litton, built a house that hosted dances and served as a stage stop. One story says the Hogeye name came from a fiddler who knew only that tune. The post office of 1849 was called Young's Settlement, but the churches and the lodge used Perryville. After the Civil War, Bethel Coopwood and Enon Lanfear tried hauling freight from here with thirty-two surplus army camels.

What the plaque says

Elgin Lodge No. 328, A. F. & A. M. Chartered June 18, 1870, as Perryville Lodge No. 328, at Perryville (or Hogeye), about 2.5 miles south of here. Removed to Elgin in 1877, lodge was renamed in 1901. Its first two Masonic halls were used jointly with public schools. McDade Lodge No. 664 merged with Elgin Lodge in 1934. (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bastrop State Park — 17 mi
  The westernmost loblolly pines in the United States, cut off from the East Texas forest by a hundred miles of post oak, burned almost entirely in 2011 and growing back.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 22 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• LBJ Presidential Library — 22 mi
  A ten-story travertine archive on the University of Texas campus holding 45 million pages from a presidency of civil rights laws, the War on Poverty and Vietnam.
• Texas State Cemetery — 22 mi
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.

More markers nearby

• City of Elgin Centennial, 1872-1972 — 0.7 mi
• Pleasant Grove Cemetery — 4.2 mi
• Lund — 4.2 mi
• Kimbro — 6.6 mi