Strickling was once a busy rural community named for Mrs. Martha (Webster) Strickling, who settled here in 1853 with her husband Marmaduke. As a child, she survived the killing of some 30 settlers in the Webster Massacre near Leander and spent months in Indian captivity. A post office opened here in 1857, and Strickling became a mail terminal and stage stop. Tons of lumber and buffalo hides were hauled through the community, which had a school, churches, a doctor’s office, and stores. Strickling gradually declined after the railroad bypassed it in 1882, and only the cemetery remains.