Site of
Nix Mill
​(1885 - 1926)

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Marker Text: ​Built by John L. Nix (1842-1915) to cut rawhide lumber, grind corn and wheat, and gin cotton. Upper floor housed gin; lower, grist mill. On east side was sawmill with wood furnace and boiler to furnish steam power. Furnace was fed cedar and oak wood. Spanish oaks, white oaks, and elms from Nueces River watercourse were sawed into the rawhide lumber from which were built town's wagon yard, feed stalls, a dance hall, and other structures.
      After Nix, successive owners were J. L. Jackson, W. D. Hutcherson, Edward Miller, Matthew Taylor, and O. C. Henderson. (1972)

Marker No: 4841

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.725353, -100.035744

Location: ​.5 miles north of the Nueces River on SH 55; Barksdale