Hagerville Community

By 1892 Hagerville had a Baptist church, a school, a blacksmith, a shoemaker and a general store, along with the post office that ran from 1891 until 1906, according to the Handbook of Texas. The Handbook places the settlement on Hager Creek, sixteen miles southeast of Crockett, and puts its estimated population at thirty in 1896. By the mid-1930s only a church and a number of scattered houses remained at the site. In the early 1990s it was a dispersed rural community, and the Handbook gives a population of seventy for 2000.

What the plaque says

Hagerville Community Kentuckian James Henry Hager (1822-1879) and his wife Naoma (Clark) came to Texas in the 1840s. Hager, a farmer and cabinet maker, opened a blacksmith shop and mill in Houston County. The Nacogdoches-to-Navasota stage and mail road ran beside his log home. Hager's son, James Polk, began a post office in 1891 and named the area "Hagersville". Another son, W.J.(Bill) donated land for a schoolhouse that was used for worship. Many residents moved closer to the sawmills and the post office closed in 1905. Business declined but the Community retains its identity. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 15 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.

More markers nearby

• Former Rosenwald School — 1.2 mi
• Allen Chapel Community — 1.2 mi
• Pioneer Settlers of Coltharp — 1.2 mi
• Kennard — 1.4 mi