Rock House Community

Rock House Community was a pioneer agricultural settlement in Williamson County first settled in the late 1840s by Uriah H. Anderson, a native of Tennessee who received a land grant there from the state of Texas. By 1857 a rural school was operating, with classes held in the Bethel Church Sanctuary, and the settlement took its name from a stone structure known as the Rock House. Another church, Macedonia, later a missionary Baptist congregation, was organized in 1873, and early services and camp meetings were conducted in a tabernacle. The community also included a general store begun about 1885 by T.C. Sowell, and later had a grist mill, a blacksmith shop, an active farmers union, and a string band. In 1890 a post office opened under the name Draco, an Indian word for the area meaning "Favorite Place," but it closed two years later. The school continued until the 1940s, when it was consolidated with Liberty Hill, and the general store, later owned by other area residents, remained in operation until 1960. All that remains of the original townsite is the Rock House Cemetery and evidence of early buildings.

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