Emzy Taylor

The plaque credits Taylor with leading the effort for a regional railroad line. The Handbook of Texas, writing about the Georgetown Railroad Company, lists Emzy Taylor first among its original directors but says nothing more about him. The company was chartered on May 31, 1878, to build between Georgetown and Round Rock with $50,000 in stock, and by the end of 1878 it had ten miles of track. Money trouble followed: the line was sold at foreclosure on August 5, 1879, and merged into the International-Great Northern in 1882.

What the plaque says

Emzy Taylor (1841-1895) Arkansas native Emzy Taylor clerked in his father's mercantile store in Georgetown before serving as a Confederate captain in the Red River campaign of the Civil War. He married Margaret Corinna Henderson in 1864 while on furlough. After the war he returned to Georgetown and took over the family business. At the forefront of Georgetown's early development, Taylor led efforts to establish the first college, national bank, regional railroad line, and water utility service. He took special pride in his formation and service as chief of the city's volunteer fire department. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Williamson County Courthouse — steps away
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Inner Space Cavern — 2.1 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• The Round Rock — 8.6 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.
• Mount Bonnell — 23 mi
  Austin's old lookout over the Colorado, named by an 1838 traveler, picnicked on by George and Libbie Custer, and reached by a 1939 flight of about 100 limestone steps.

More markers nearby

• Chief Justice John Edward Hickman — steps away
• Judge Greenleaf Fisk — steps away
• In Memory of Robert Jones Rivers — steps away
• Williamson County — steps away