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History in
a Pecan Shell
Willow Springs dates back to the late 1830s and was once known as
Rockhouse.
The builders
of the pictured store (below), Frank and Rosina Stanislow, sold
it to a C. T. Zapp in 1880. Sometime between 1880 and 1903 the town
had its name changed to Zapp.
Tombstones of
various Zapps can be found in several northern Fayette County
cemeteries. FM 954 connects Willow Springs with Warrenton.
Another Fayette County town that was heavily Zapped, was Round
Top, which is just a few miles north of Warrenton.
The E.C.
Minssen Store, pictured above, and its predecessors, have served
the community for well over 130 years. The present store was once
a building moved from
Camp Swift near Bastrop
when the post was deactivated after World War II. It first went
to another location in Willow Springs and we're told it was once
a dance hall. After a fire in 1962 destroyed the store, this building
was moved in to replace it.
Willow Springs
today consists of the store and a few houses and other buildings.
The community lost its post office in 1906 and then its school
in the 1940s.
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