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Farm-sized grain
elevator and barn in Willow Springs
TE Photo,
2001 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Willow Springs
dates back to the late 1830s and was once known as Rockhouse.
The builders of the pictured store (below), Frank and Rosina Stanislow,
sold it to a C. T. Zapp in 1880. Sometime between 1880 and 1903 the
town had its name changed to Zapp.
Tombstones of various Zapps can be found in several northern Fayette
County cemeteries. FM 954 connects Willow Springs with Warrenton.
Another Fayette
County town that was heavily Zapped, was Round
Top, which is just a few miles north of Warrenton.
The E.C. Minssen Store, and its predecessors,
have served the community for well over 130 years. The present store
was once a building moved from
Camp Swift near Bastrop when
the post was deactivated after World
War II. It first went to another location in Willow Springs and
we're told it was once a dance hall. After a fire in 1962 destroyed
the store, this building was moved in to replace it.
Willow Springs today consists of the store and a few houses and other
buildings. The community lost its post office in 1906 and then
its school in the 1940s. |
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Nearby towns,
besides those previously mentioned, include Industry,
Bellville, Shelby,
and Brenham.
Source:
Fayette County: Past and Present, by the students of LaGrange High
School, Edited by Mrs. Majorie L. Williams, 1976 |
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