LIBERTY, TEXAS (Milam County). Liberty is on Farm Road 3242 five miles north of Milano in east central Milam County. Before the Civil War it was the site of a Methodist church. Liberty had a one-teacher school with fifty-nine students in 1903; the school was consolidated with the Milano Independent School District in 1931. A school, a church, and a few scattered houses marked the community on the 1941 county highway map. Liberty had forty residents in 1990.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lelia M. Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1956). Milam County Heritage and Preservation Society, Matchless Milam: History of Milam County (Dallas: Taylor, 1984).
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