Bastrop County

GRASSYVILLE, TEXAS

Texas Ghost Town
Bastrop County, Central Texas South

30° 8' 14" N, 97° 4' 45" W (30.137222, -97.079167)
FM 2104 - East on Grassyville Road
14 miles E of Bastrop the county seat
13.8 miles SW of Giddings
About 6 miles S of Paige
N of Smithville
50 miles E of Austin
Population: 50 est. (1990)

History in a Pecan Shell

Grassyville was a German agricultural community formed in the mid 1850s. The village became a center for German Methodist Church members and a parsonage was built here in 1858, although a church didn’t appear until 1868.

A post office was granted in 1877, although it was in Lee County. In 1879 it reopened in Bastrop County, although the matter was far from ending. This post office was closed and reopened in Lee County, only to moved back to Bastrop in 1883.

Grassyville was prospering in the mid 1880s with a population of 75 residents served by a gristmill and cotton gin. Two churches were in operation as well as a school.

The community played host to conferences of the German Methodist Church in 1887 and 1893 and again in 1899.

The post office saga was resurrected when it was closed in 1887, reopened two years later and closed for good in 1906.

The population fell to a mere 10 citizens in 1933 but from 1939 through 1990 it was reportedly at 50.

Today it is remembered by Grassyville Road and the large, manicured cemetery.


Grassyville Cemetery Historical Marker ›

Grassyville Cemetery

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