- Briggs, Texas
Briggs is an unincorporated community in eastern Burnet County,
Texas ,United States . It lies alongU.S. Route 183 northeast of the city of Burnet, thecounty seat of Burnet County. [Rand McNally. "The Road Atlas '08."Chicago :Rand McNally , 2008, p. 100.] Its elevation is 1,102 feet (336 m), and it is located at coor dms|30|53|23|N|97|55|30|W|city (30.8896255, -97.9250199). [gnis|1352889] Although Briggs is unincorporated, it has apost office , with theZIP code of 78608; [ [http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=78608 Zip Code Lookup] ] the ZCTA for ZIP Code 78608 had a population of 279 at the 2000 census.GR|2Founded as Springs, the community was soon renamed Gum Springs. The first settler in the area, a
Missouri an named W. T. Gann, arrived in the area in 1855, but the community was established along the Berry Creek in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. A post office was established under the name of Taylor's Gin (named for leading settler Stephen Taylor) on27 March 1888 ; it did not assume its current name until21 June 1898 , when local doctor William Hazelwood was able to have the community renamed for his mother-in-law. The community prospered in the early 1900s; although major fires and the early effects of theGreat Depression seriously impacted the community, it reached its height in 1936, from which it has since declined. [ [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hnb77.html Briggs, Texas] , Handbook of Texas Online,2008-01-09 . Accessed2008-08-14 .]References
External links
* [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hnb77.html Profile of Briggs] from the Handbook of Texas Online
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