Rainey's Creek Coryell City Church Specie — Coryell County

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Rainey's Creek Coryell City Church Specie — Coryell County

Lost Treasure TX • Coryell County County
Description
Northeast Coryell County legend of church specie at Rainey's Creek — the 1857 post-office settlement that became Coryell City with a Presbyterian church organized in 1858.
Historical Notes
Coryell City was known as Rainey's Creek when the county organized in 1854; a post office by that name began operating by the creek in 1857. By 1860 nearly seventy families lived in the Rainey's Creek vicinity. The community became Coryell in the early 1870s. TSHA records a Baptist church at Coryell Church in 1854 and a Presbyterian church organized at Rainey's Creek in 1858; St. John's Lutheran church was established at Coryell City in 1889. Frontier church-treasure folklore often places communion silver and gold coins near early sanctuaries and creek-bottom cemeteries. Coordinates mark Coryell City on Farm Road 929 ten miles northeast of Gatesville.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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