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Ross Prairie, Texas

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Ross Prairie is a farming community situated two miles (3.2 km) south of Fayetteville in Fayette County, Texas.^[1] First settled in the 1820s by James J. Ross, in the 1840s and '50s the land attracted German and Bohemian immigrants who built the church there.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Carroll 1995.

Sources

Carroll, Jeff (March 1, 1995). "Ross Prairie, TX". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Asssociation. Retrieved June 10, 2023.

Further reading

Biesele, Rudolph L. (1930). The History of the German Settlements in Texas, 1831–1861. Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann-Jones. pp. 54, 64, 251. ISBN 9781404759169.
Weyand, Leonie Rummel; Wade, Houston (1936). An Early History of Fayette County. La Grange, TX: La Grange Journal. pp. 114, 212, 234.

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