Lincolnville

Following the Civil War, slaves were freed in Coryell County. Judge Mayberry gave 200 acres in the Moccasin Bend area of the Leon River to twelve slave families who built homes, a church (the Bethlehem Baptist Church in 1872), and a school – calling their community Lincolnville. Two men, including William Martin Smith, served as buffalo soldiers. Smith was in Company C of the 10th Infantry. The mural depicts Molly Snow, a midwife, and Silas Snow who became a School Board Member and Church deacon. There is a fine work about Lincolnville by Geraldine Batty-Hoover available for purchase in the museum gift shop called They Stood the Test of Time.