Gabriel Mills, Texas, est. 1849 Williamson County Historical Co

GABRIEL MILLS, TEXAS, est. 1849

Population: 80 (1890)

Family in front of house with horse and carriage. A nearby mill on the San Gabriel River, for which the town was named, served Chief Yellow Wolf of the Comanche's, as well as farmers from over 100 miles away.

Courtesy of Jeanne McNabb

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Mill & Store at
Gabriel Mills

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Baptizing in river, Gabriel Mills, near Andice, Texas

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Mount Horeb Methodist Church, built 1854, used as church ca. 1927, moved to Mahomet, still used as church, torn down ca. 1940, Gabriel Mills, near Andice, Texas

Gabriel Mills - Historical Marker text
Samuel Mather settled here in 1849, building a grist mill on the North San Gabriel in 1852. John G. Stewart opened a store near the mill. A small log cabin was in use by 1854 for church, school and lodge meetings. A post office was established in 1858, Mather being postmaster. W. L. Brizendine owned the mill by 1865, adding a cotton gin. Known as Mather's Mill, Brizendine Mill, or Gabriel Mills, the village thrived until Austin & Northwestern Railroad bypassed it (1881); then a decline began. The post office closed in 1905, and by the 1920s the town itself had disappeared.

LOAFER'S GLORY APOSTOLIC CHURCH
HISTORICAL MARKER TEXT
LOAFER'S GLORY APOSTOLIC CHURCH WAS ORGANIZED IN 1908 AFTER WESLEYAN HOLINESS PREACHER GEORGE SUTTON CONDUCTED A REVIVAL AT LOAFER'S GLORY
SCHOOL ON WILSON ATWOOD'S FARM. BEGINNING IN 1909, EVANGELIST FRED
LOHMANN SERVED AS MINISTER AND
CONDUCTED TENT REVIVALS THAT DREW HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE. A SMALL FRAME SANCTUARY WAS ERECTED ABOUT 1910 ON LAND DONATED BY JIM MOORE, WHO LED THE CONGREGATION UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1917. MANY MINISTERS AND MISSIONARIES ORIGINATED FROM LOAFER'S GLORY CHURCH,. WHICH CONTINUED SERVICES UNDER SEVERAL LEADERS UNTIL 1930

Gabriel Mills, Texas by The Handbook of Texas Online

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