SIX MILE, TX (MILAM COUNTY)

SIX MILE, TEXAS (Milam County). Six Mile was eight miles southeast of Milano in eastern Milam County. It took its name from nearby Sixmile Creek. In 1903 the community had a one-teacher school for thirteen white students and a one-teacher school for twenty-nine black students. By the 1940s no evidence of the community appeared on county highway maps.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

Lelia M. Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1956).

Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl

Citation

The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.

Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "SIX MILE, TX (MILAM COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvs96), accessed May 28, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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