Millsap City Hall - 1999 - Millsap, TX
N 32° 44.739 W 098° 00.521
14S E 592871 N 3623523
Built in 1999, Millsap City Hall stands adjacent to Heritage Park at 208 S Fannin St, Millsap, TX.
Waymark Code: WMVMCN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/03/2017
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City Hall resembles a log cabin -- note the log posts on the porch --- so as to fit in well with the two log cabins at Heritage Park, the Fuller Millsap Cabin (1852) and the Benjamin M. Porter Cabin (1877). The building is dated by a bronze plaque located between the entrance and a white sign about the Bankhead Highway. They're open when they're open, so your best bet is probably in the morning.
The Handbook of Texas Online provides some history:
Millsap is on Farm Road 113 fifteen miles west of Weatherford in western Parker County. It was originally a relay station on the stagecoach route that ran from Weatherford to Palo Pinto. A Millsap post office opened in 1877. In 1880 the tracks of the Texas and Pacific Railway reached the area, and three small communities moved to take advantage of the railroad: Mineral City, Peck City, and the Millsap relay station. By the 1890s Millsap was serving area farmers as a retail and shipping point; within a decade the town had a bank, more than a dozen other businesses, three churches, a ten-grade educational institution called Millsap College, and a weekly newspaper, the Millsap News. The community population increased from an estimated 100 in 1890 to 800 in 1920. Between 1940 and 1970, however, it declined, reaching a low of 261 by 1968. In 1988 thirteen businesses and 412 residents were reported, and in 1990 an estimated 485 residents lived there. By 2000 the population dropped to 353.