Near the Old San Patricio Trail, which led from San Antonio to McMullen and McGloin colony in the Gulf of Mexico area, this vicinity included stage stops at Belle Branch, Rock Spring, Rountree's, and Tordilla. The land had been part of the Butler, Hickok, Tom, and Rountree ranches. The town was platted in 1915 as Hickok, but after the U.S. Post Office Department disapproved that name, a tag on a popular tobacco, “Fashion,” inspired the adoption of the name Fashing. Its first schoolhouse was built in 1917 and a second in 1921. The Methodist church, organized in 1922, erected the first house of worship in 1925 in a building moved from Bastrop. St. Elizabeth Catholic Church was built in 1934, and Martin Luther Lutheran Church was erected in 1948. The present school building was completed in 1952. The town became a center for mineral development: first local oil production came from Weigang Field in 1946; Tordilla Hill, 5 miles north, was the site of the first major uranium discovery in Texas in 1954; and after further petroleum strikes in the Fashing Edwards Limestone Field in 1958, gas and sulfur processing plants were built by Elcor Chemical Co., Lone Star Producing Co., Sinclair Oil and Gas Co., and Warren Petroleum Corp. The only commercial uranium operation in Texas is near here.