Evant

The plaque says the town was named from Evan T. Brooks's first name and middle initial. The Handbook of Texas tells it more simply: a man called Evant Brooks moved from Alabama in the late 1870s, bought 160 acres, and in 1881 gave sixty of them for a townsite. In 1884 the community's name changed to Evant in his honor. Earlier it had been Langford Cove, with a post office called Cove. By the 1890s Evant had three general stores, a hotel, a gristmill, a cotton gin and 120 residents.

What the plaque says

Evant The town of Evant traces its history to an earlier settlement in this area. Langford Cove, founded in 1855 by Asa Langford (1820-1870), was located adjacent to and partly within the south boundary of the present town of Evant. A United States Post Office was authorized in 1876 under the name Cove. Evan T. Brooks and his family arrived in the area in 1876. In 1881 Brooks platted a townsite which was filed in Hamilton County records as Brooksville. The same plat appeared in Coryell County records in 1884 as Evant, so named from a combination of Brooks' first name and middle initial. Streets and blocks were carefully planned, including a town square. The Cove post office was transferred to Evant and renamed in 1885. In 1878 a one-room plank schoolhouse was erected on land donated by Asa Langford in 1875. It was replaced in 1888 by a stone structure which, with additions and modifications, served Evant Independent School District until 1976. Over the years, businesses were established and churches and community groups were organized. The citizens of Evant voted to incorporate in an election held in December 1976. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hamilton County Courthouse — 16 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.

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