Salty Community  |
| Address | County | utm_east |
| Milam |
679032 |
| utm_zone | utm_north |
| Thorndale | 14 | 3386127 |
| Latitude | Longitude | ||
| N 30.59437° | W -97.13235° |
| Location | Repair Condition |
| 6.4 mi. SE of Thorndale on US 79, south on Milam County Rd. 446 3.7 mi. - in front of Salty church | Faded; Refinish |
| Marker Text |
| Settled in 1860s; named for Salty Creek, cattle licks. Joseph and Sarah |
| Frasure gave site for Methodist Church, 1871. Earliest burial in cemetery was in |
| 1875. Community had school by 1878. Violence erupted in area in 1880s |
| over barbed wire fencing. Salty was designated a voting precinct in 1886. Mail |
| service was initiated 1897. Settlement had telephones, stores, a barber shop, |
| at least three doctors. About 1900 the Annual Salty Singing Convention was |
| founded by A. J. Jackson. This institution remains, although stores and the |
| school were closed in the 1940s. |
