Site of Old Town of
Union Valley ​
​(Settled in 1860s)

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Marker No: 4865

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.319258, -97.843117

Location: ​From Nixon, take FM 1681 northwest 6 miles to grounds of The Union Valley Homecoming Association.

Marker Text: ​Original schoolhouse of logs on site given by Harriet Smith Beaty in 1872 to trustees John Coleman, King Holstein, and Samuel McCracken, was replaced 1877 by a frame one on William Cone land, serving as masonic hall, church, court room. Union post office opened 1883. Stores, gins, saloons, blacksmith and butcher shops were owned by men named Burnside, Cone, Creech, Dunn, Johnson, Murray, Mace, Patterson, Spear, Treadwell, Watkins, Wiley, and Wright. Town dwindled when bypassed in 1906 by Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad. (1972)