Lickskillet | TX Almanac
WEBPromotion: Nearby Map of Grayson County. Pilot Grove is on Farm Road 121 sixteen miles southeast of Sherman in southeastern Grayson County. It was settled about 1850 and was originally called Lickskillet.
Lickskillet, TX - TSHA
WEBPublished: December 11, 2016. Updated: August 7, 2020. Lickskillet, TX. The community of Bethany, Louisiana, on U.S. Highway 79 on the Texas-Louisiana line, has taken as its own the name of the pioneer Texas community of Lickskillet (or at times called Vernon).
Linnville, Texas, Calhoun County ghost town. - Texas Escapes
WEBLinnville, Texas Gulf Coast ghost town: history, Centennial marker, photos, travel, vintage map and more.
Linnville, Calhoun County, Texas - Wikipedia
WEBLinnville, Texas was a town in the Republic of Texas, in what is now Calhoun County. It was founded in 1831 and destroyed in the Great Raid of 1840. [1][2][3]
Fayetteville, Texas, AKA Lick Skillet, Lickskillet.
WEBLatecomers to picnics and celebrations where told to "lick the skillet" after the food had all been eaten. You have to admit it's better than "Get-here-earlier-next-year-Days." Today, even as a tourist attraction with antique stores, cafes and bed & breakfasts, Fayetteville retains its hometown charm.
Linnville (Ghost Town) - stxmaps.com
WEBLinnville (Ghost Town) Historical Site. Map This Site! Linnville was named for John Joseph Linn, a merchant from Victoria who built a number of warehouses here in 1831. A town grew up around the warehouses and by 1840, it was the second largest port in Texas. On March 13, 1840, an incident known as the Council House Fight took place in San Antonio.
Lick Skillet - Texas Escapes
WEBAug 9, 2009 · Lick Skillet is a name that courses through the history of rural East Texas. For more than a hundred years or so, it has been attached to communities, creeks, roads and anything else where people have a sense of humor.
Linnville, TX (Calhoun County) - TSHA
WEBJun 19, 2020 · Linnville was on Lavaca Bay twenty miles from Victoria at a site then in Victoria County and now in Calhoun County. It was one of the most important ports of entry during the early period of the Republic of Texas. The town, originally called New Port, was established by John J. Linn in 1831.
Linnville | TX Almanac
WEBLinnville was on Lavaca Bay twenty miles from Victoria at a site then in Victoria County and now in Calhoun County. It was one of the most important ports of entry during the early period of the Republic of Texas. The town, originally called New Port, was established by John J. Linn in 1831.
Linnville Raid of 1840 - TSHA
WEBMar 1, 1995 · The sacking of Victoria and Linnville in August 1840 in what was then Victoria County was the strategic object of a great Comanche raid in 1840, the most terrifying of all Comanche raids in Southeast Texas. The attack originated as an aftermath of the Council House Fight in San Antonio in March 1840. By August …