Six Mile-Royal Community

The Phillips Investment Company issued deeds to the property on this site to Josef Marek and John Drgac in December 1894. Soon called Marekville, the area attracted Czech and German settlers with a bumper cotton crop in its first year. The first school building was erected in 1895, and a post office opened in 1905, taking the name Royal after the county commissioner. The Six Mile name is believed to come from a local watering hole, since from Port Lavaca it was "Six Miles to Water." The name was used formally as early as 1907 by the Six Mile Farmers Union. Although the post office closed in 1910, the area continued to grow, and in 1997 about 200 families still resided there.

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