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History
in a Pecan ShellNamed
after the Egyptian River, Nile seems to have arrived alongside the tracks of the
International and Great Northern Railroad in the late 1880s. A post office opened
in 1890 and by 1892 fourteen people were receiving mail there. The economy was
strong enough to support two cotton gins in the mid 1890s as well as a general
store. By this time the population had risen to 35. By 1903 the one-teacher school
taught forty-three students but by 1914 the population was back to 25 and the
post office closed two years later. The school managed to stay open through 1946
when it was merged with the schools in Thorndale.
Nile's history stops at this point. Today there is no sign of Nile on county maps;
not even a cemetery. |
1920s
Milam County map showing Nile
(W of Rockdale.
Under "I" in "MILAM")
Courtesy Texas General Land Office |
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