Nix

The story

Settlers came to this site along the Fort Phantom Hill Road in the 1860s and established the village of Nix. Harvey Wallace opened a general store in 1875, and his wife Elizabeth became the first postmaster. Several springs ran nearby, including Dripping Springs near the Nix Cemetery founded in 1878.

By 1885, citizens started a school on the Levi Ringer place. The town boasted a cotton gin, blacksmiths and stores, and citizens built a new schoolhouse in 1920. Rock quarries and cedar yards begun in the 1940s supported the local economy.

Nix schools absorbed Bend, Lynch Creek and Ogles before consolidating with Lampasas in 1952. The historic Nix schoolhouse later became a community center. (2007)