Kimbro

The settlement was first called Cottonwood, for its place on Cottonwood Creek. When a post office opened in 1901 it took the name of Lemuel Kimbro, who had received land here in the 1830s; it closed the next year, and mail came through Manor. In 1907 Kimbro had a one-teacher school with thirty-nine students. The school district joined its neighbors in the Manda common school district in the 1940s. Kimbro counted twenty-five people in the 1930s and 1940s and fifty in the 1950s and in 1990. It lies near Farm Road 1100, five miles east of Manor.

What the plaque says

Kimbro Named for pioneer landowner Lemuel Kimbro, this community was settled in the late 1870s by Swedish, Danish, and German immigrants. Most of the residents were cotton farmers, and at its height the community boasted homes, farms, the Swedish Evangelical Free Church of Kimbro, a school, a cotton gin, and two general stores. The school closed in 1947 when the nearby Manda Consolidated School District was formed, and the church building was moved to Elgin in 1954. Many of Kimbro's early settlers were buried here; some of their descendants still reside in the area. (1991)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LBJ Presidential Library — 17 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.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 17 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.
• Texas State Cemetery — 17 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.
• Harry Ransom Center — 18 mi
  The University of Texas archive where a Gutenberg Bible and the earliest surviving camera photograph are always on view, free, beside the papers of Watergate and the movies.

More markers nearby

• Manda — 1.0 mi
• New Sweden Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.5 mi
• Carlson — 3.0 mi
• St. John Church — 4.4 mi