Llano Woman's Culture Club

The year Jennie Clopton gathered her society, the state federation of women's clubs was growing fast. By 1901 it counted 132 member clubs, which it organized that year into five districts across Texas. Before its twentieth anniversary it had added standing committees on education, civic improvement, parks and playgrounds, conservation, rural life, public health and more. The federation began its scholarship program in 1903, the legislature granted its first charter in 1914, and in 1932 the cornerstone was laid for its permanent headquarters in Austin, a $157,000 brick building.

What the plaque says

Llano Woman's Culture Club Local music teacher Jennie Clopton (1861-1904) organized the Woman's Literary Society with 16 charter members in 1901. The club established a public library, first called Clopton Library for the club's founder. Other projects of the renamed Woman's Culture Club included landscaping in public areas and scholarships. Club members coordinated a Works Progress Administration project to build a public library building here in 1938-39. Meetings were held at the library until 1953 when George Watkins bequeathed his home to the club. (1997)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Llano County Courthouse Square — steps away
  The 1893 Romanesque courthouse on Llano's square, built after a fire at the height of a boom that was meant to make the granite town an iron city.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 17 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.
• Inks Lake State Park — 18 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Enchanted Rock State Natural Area — 19 mi
  A dome of pink granite north of Fredericksburg that rises some 385 feet above Sandy Creek, creaks as it cools at night, and has drawn people for thousands of years.

More markers nearby

• Frank Teich — steps away
• Lantex Theater — steps away
• Llano County Granite Industry — steps away
• First Christian Church of Llano — 0.2 mi