Site of Former Town of Lyons

Lyons, also called Lyonsville, began about 1840, and a post office opened there in 1846. When the railroad passed two miles north after the Civil War, the town did not so much die as move: in 1874 its post office, its businesses and its Masonic lodge relocated to the tracks and became the core of the new town of Schulenburg. Through the twentieth century only two burial grounds, the Corinth and Lyons cemeteries, remained to mark where Lyons had stood. By 1987 the land around it was given to sheep, cattle, hay and grain.

What the plaque says

Site of Former Town of Lyons Early town on land grant of Keziah Cryer. Named for settler James Lyons, killed by 1837 Indian raiders, who kidnapped his son Warren. In 1860s town had stores, Masonic Lodge, school, post office; and was on "Cotton Road" to Mexico, but it died in 1870s when the Southern Pacific Railroad was built. (1972)

Where it stands

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