page_title: Leesville, Texas
section_title: Industry
hierarchical_section_title: Leesville, Texas / History / Industry
caption_attribution_description: English: Leesville School House with Historical Marker
context_page_description: Leesville is an unincorporated city of 384 residents distributed over 51 square miles in the Gonzales—Guadalupe County, Texas area alongside SH 80 / FM 1682; defined by the south of its Capote Hills at FM 466 / SH 80, and the north of Sandies Creek between FM 1117 / SH 80 / SH 97. Straddling and nearing the southeastern border of Guadalupe County, the real estate origins of Leesville go back to the 1800s survey-plots of Texas Revolution figures Ezekiel Wimberly Cullen and Count Joseph de la Baume of France; the latter retaining Texas's founding father Stephen F. Austin as an attorney, to reacquire the early-1800s Spanish land-tract, after Mexico's Independence from Spain in 1825. Divided by FM 1682 joining with Gonzales—Guadalupe County Road 121 West, Leesville's northern territory is closest to the Austin Metropolitan Areas through SH 80 / US 183, while the southern territory is closest to the San Antonio Metropolitan Areas through SH 97 / US 87.
  In 1844, De la Baume's heirs sold out to Michael Erskine, a then-future Confederate Army commander of the Sandies Creek, Leesville area; the namesake of Leesville's founder "N.
context_section_description: Original businesses and organizations since the area's settlement used to include, in greater capacity:
  Fayette Smith's saloon (late-1800s)
  A Masonic Lodge, with $60 in silver recorded as deposited in the local bank (late-1800s); destroyed, totaled by a fire on December 14, 1904 due to lack of insurance
  Peebles & Brown mercantile storehouse and bank, with as much as $5,000 in goods and $1,400-$1,500 in currency deposits (east-side of O'Neill Creek, late-1800s)
  Sylvester A. Hubbard‘s ox-driven corn grinder and lumber saw (1860)
  Sandies Home Guard C.S.A.; Captain Michael Erskine, First Lieutenant W. H. Burris, Second Lieutenant Larkin N. West, Third Lieutenant N. W. Guinn (June 22, 1861)
  Daniel Brown‘s general merchandise store (1868)
  A brick kiln (1868)
  A saddletree and stirrup factory (1868)
  Leesburg Male and Female Institute, known as “Leesville school house” (January 21, 1873)
  L.C. Cocke Pharmacy (1890s-1910s)
  Medical doctor, Dr. M. A. McBride having moved his practice from West Point, New York to Leesville, Texas (1894)
  Southern Pacific Railroad - GHSA, a "Glidden to LaGrange" ("Glidden Subdivision") spur connecting to the late "Stockdale to Cuero" branch line (constructed 1905-1907); this railway easement has been converted to an overhead power line at present-day
  Hupmobile dealership, J.W. West (1913)
  Leesville School System, elementary and high schools (closed in 1951)
  Lumber production
  Grain production
  Beef production
  Cotton production
  Peanut farming
  Melon farming
  Various churches including a Missionary Baptist church
caption: Leesville School House with Historical Marker
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