Richmond Alexander McInnis

Llano's merchants of McInnis's day worked in a town that kept burning. The first bank, Moore, Foster, and Company, opened in 1879, and the first newspaper, the Llano Rural, later absorbed the Advocate, the Searchlight and the Gazette to become the Llano News. A series of fires in the early 1890s, probably set to collect insurance on unprofitable buildings, destroyed many of the new businesses, and for several years insurers would not cover the town. In the 1920s Llano was a major shipping point for cattle.

What the plaque says

Richmond Alexander McInnis Mississippi native Richmond Alexander (R. A.) McInnis (1852-1922) moved to Llano as a young man in the 1870s. He owned and operated Llano Furniture Company on the town square, and served as Llano County sheriff from 1880 to 1882. McInnis married Martha Caroline Bozarth (1865-1949) in 1882. In 1892 McInnis was elected one of the first city aldermen in Llano. As president of the Llano Railroad Commission, he was instrumental in promoting railroad marketing from Llano. Built in 1882, this house was owned by McInnis family members for 110 years. (1996)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Llano County Courthouse Square — 0.2 mi
  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

• First Christian Church of Llano — steps away
• Frank Teich — steps away
• Llano Woman's Culture Club — 0.2 mi
• Lantex Theater — 0.2 mi