Historical Marker
Reed's Lake
Historical marker location:
Rogers vicinity, Texas
( From Rogers, take FM 36 NW about .75 mile to Reed's Lake Road. Go west on Reed's Lake Road (veering left twice) about 4.75 miles to Reed's Lake Cemetery.)
Marker installed: 1967
Earliest settlement in Bell County; founded 1834 by men of the Sterling Robertson colony. Named for family of John Burnett Reed, who in 1859 built near here his large house that is still in use; also put in cotton gin, and gave sites for a school and cemetery. (1967).