First settlers arrived in area in 1840s. The community founded here in 1856 was called Live Oak Springs; in 1865 it was renamed Shiloh. Later schools known as Live Oak and Oatmanville Gave names temporarily to the settlement. It has been known as Oak Hill since 1900. Limestone quarries were opened, 1882, to supply stone for capitol building in Austin. By 1886, ten carloads of stone were shipped daily over railroad which joined quarries with capitol grounds. It is estimated that one-third of capitol's walls are line with limestone from Oak Hill quarries.
Incise on base: Sponsored by Oakhill-Cedar Valley Pioneer Association
Within this region, the area along the Colorado River was only sparsely populated by pioneers from the U.S. partly due to conflicts with the native Commanches. In 1835, one such settler, William Cannon, obtained a land grant from the Mexican government that stretched from Williamson Creek to Slaughter Creek, an area which comprised the heart of what we now know as "Oak Hill".
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