Rita, TxRita is on the south bank of Dam Creek two miles west of the Brazos River in the blackland prairie of the fertile Brazos bottoms in northeastern Burleson County. Settlement of the area began during the summer of 1830, when Fort Tenoxtitlán, a frontier defense post of the province of Coahuila and Texas, was constructed by Lt. Col. José Francisco Ruiz on the Brazos at the mouth of Dam Creek. Though the fort and its surrounding settlement was abandoned in 1832, an Anglo-American community and trading post remained in the vicinity until about 1860. In the late 1800s Rita was established on Teal Prairie, two miles west of the site of the fort, on the former bounty grant of John Teal, a veteran of the Army of the Republic of Texas. A post office operated at Rita from 1894 to 1905. Oil exploration began in the area around 1900. During World War I an active Red Cross chapter was organized in the town. In 1939 Rita had an estimated twenty residents and one business. Its population climbed to about fifty in 1968 and was reported at that level through 2000. (source: Texas State Historical Association)
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Hix, TxHix is on the west bank of the Brazos River near Farm Road 2000 eleven miles northeast of Caldwell in far northeastern Burleson County. The site was settled by the families of Benjamin Porter and Merifield Phegley in 1847. Initially the community was called Fraimville in honor of the Fraim family, another group of early settlers. The Macedonia Baptist Church, the third-oldest church in the county, was organized there in 1852. The town's first post office operated from 1871 to 1874. A Masonic lodge was established at the community in 1872 but was disbanded in 1886. A school was built in the township in the late 1800s. A second post office, called Hix, operated at the town from 1894 until 1909, when the mail was routed through Gause. The community had a cotton gin, a blacksmith shop, and a grocery store in 1894. In 1968 Hix reported a population of 35 and no businesses. Its population remained an estimated thirty-five through 2000. (source: Texas State Historical Association)
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