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Osage
Baptist Church and Tabernacle
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, January 2004 |
History
on a Pinhead
The town may have been named for either the bois
d'arc trees - which were also called Osage Oranges, or the Indian tribe. People
started arriving in the area sometime around 1860. A post office was in operation
from 1878 all the way until 1965.
The town might have prospered except
for a fire in 1936 that destroyed most of downtown. Osage's school consolidated
with Crawford ISD in 1947. The Baptist
church shown above has been in continuous use (on Sundays) for over 100 years. |
1940s
Coryell County map showing Osage near McLennan County Line
Courtesy Texas General
Land Office | |
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