Summers' Mill

Historical marker location:

FM 1123, Belton vicinity, Texas

( 5 miles east of Belton on FM 1123 @ Salado Creek; MARKER REPORTED MISSING 5/2011)

Marker installed: 1965

Summers' Mill,1866. Parts came by ox-team from Houston. Ground corn for bread. Formed center for settlement.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965.

mills - textile, fiber, gristmills, cotton gins institutional buildings

Texas has been a major oil-producing state for over a century. The first big oil discovery in Texas was the Spindletop field near Beaumont in 1901, which set off a massive oil boom that transformed the state's economy and made Texas one of the wealthiest states in the country.