Community of Tennyson

This area was roamed by Indians for centuries and was tamed by open-range cattlemen in the late 1870s. Permanent settlement began in the 1880s. A post office named for British poet Alfred Tennyson was established in 1894, with Mrs. Sarah E. Kiser as the first postmaster, and seven persons had held that office by 1970. Over the years, the area had several schools, but all had closed. Nearby Mt. Margaret, height 335 feet, was once a locale of Indian activities and later became the site of the annual community homecoming on the Saturday before Labor Day and Easter sunrise religious services each spring.

Texas · United States