Caddo Mills, Texas

Caddo Indians had long camped along Caddo Creek when, in the late eighteen seventies, two men named I. T. Johnson and Henry King built a gristmill a mile west of the present townsite.

Settlers named the growing community after the mill, and a post office followed on June sixteenth, eighteen seventy-nine. By the early eighteen eighties there were about one hundred residents, three churches, a school, and a dozen businesses. The real boom arrived in eighteen eighty-six when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, known as the Katy, laid tracks through town.

A depot opened, population doubled toward five hundred, and the State National Bank opened in nineteen oh five. Caddo Mills grew into a solid farm-service town along what would become State Highway sixty-six.