our history: PC GHOST TOWNS (Part 8)
Places of Parker
County Past
BY MEL W RHODES
Millsap on the
Wild Frontier
30
A Running Fight
A
bout 15 miles west
of Weatherford
along well-used train
tracks stands a town
steeped in frontier
history. The Millsap
area saw quite a bit of
action during Indian
times, back when
white settlers were just
getting a toehold in a
wild place traversed by
Native Americans given
to nomadic life.
Originally a way
station on a stage line
running west from
Weatherford to Palo
Pinto, Millsap took its
name from early settler
Fuller Millsaps, who
came to Texas in 1849
and moved to Parker
County in 1856. The
county was young then,
having been carved
from Navarro and
Bosque counties the
year before.
A man of consider-
able resolve, Millsaps
never shielded from
defending his home
and family. On March
2, 1866, a band of
30-some-odd warriors,
three women among
them, showed up at the
Millsaps cabin on Rock
Creek near the Parker-
Palo Pinto County li