Kimble County Historical Museum

Junction takes its name from where it sits, at the confluence of the North and South Llano rivers. It was founded in the spring of 1876, after Kimble County was organized, and was first called Denman for its surveyor, then Junction City in 1877 and simply Junction in 1894. It won the county seat from Kimbleville, a rival site that was subject to floods.

Fire was the county's early enemy. The courthouse of 1878 burned in 1884 with all the county records, and its stone successor was partly destroyed by fire in 1888 and used until the present courthouse was built in 1929. Water shaped the town too: Ernest Holecamp dug a canal from the South Llano for the first waterworks in 1895, a dam on the South Llano followed in 1896, and the Four Mile Dam irrigation system was finished in 1904. Junction shipped the county's livestock, wool, mohair and pecans, and in the 1940s a cedar oil business grew up.

The Kimble County Historical Museum, run by the county historical commission, keeps that history: World War I and II memorabilia, documents, photographs, Native American artifacts, newspapers, tools and household goods. It sells books on local history, including a chronicle of the county's cemeteries, and helps with genealogy research.