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OAK HILL, TEXAS (Milam County). Oak Hill was near U.S. Highway 77 five miles south of Rockdale in southern Milam County. It had a one-teacher school with sixty-eight students in 1903. A school and a few scattered houses marked the community on county highway maps in the 1940s. Oak Hill was consolidated with the Rockdale Independent School District in 1949.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lelia M. Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1956). Milam County Heritage Preservation Society, Matchless Milam: History of Milam County (Dallas: Taylor, 1984).

Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl

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