Historic Site of Wolfe's Mill

The Handbook of Texas puts Lemuel Pinckney Wolfe's mill on Oyster Creek in the late 1860s or early 1870s, a little earlier than the plaque's date of about 1873. The settlement was briefly Wolfe's Mill and was Wolfe City by 1882, the year it received a post office. The Handbook dates incorporation and the Santa Fe's arrival to 1887; the plaque says 1886 for incorporation. By 1892 the town had 1,800 people and sixty businesses, including a bank, a foundry, two gristmills, two gins and the Sentinel Chronicle. It peaked at 1,859 people in the 1920s.

What the plaque says

Historic Site of Wolfe's Mill Grist (corn) mill built about 1873 by pioneers Lemuel P. Wolfe and Abbey Wilson. Powered by oxen, treading inclined wheel. Area's first post office was located in millhouse, which was center for the settlement called "Wolfe's Mill," incorporated in 1886 as "Wolfe City." (1971)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The two-story farmhouse west of Bonham that the longtime Speaker of the House built in 1916 and kept as his home, left as he lived in it and open as a museum since 1975.
• Audie Murphy / American Cotton Museum — 17 mi
  A Greenville museum of Hunt County's military heroes, including Audie Murphy, and of cotton, which keeps the engine of what it says was the world's largest inland cotton compress.
• Cooper Lake State Park — 23 mi
  Two units on Jim Chapman Lake, a Corps reservoir proposed in the late 1930s, stalled by a lawsuit until 1984 and dedicated in 1991, with a 10.5-mile equestrian trail and wildlife land around it.

More markers nearby

• Ebenezer Baptist Church — steps away
• Blanton School — 0.3 mi
• Portland — 7.1 mi
• Gober Garage — 7.1 mi