Rockdale

Rockdale, Texas is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 79 and U.S. Highway 77, thirteen miles south of Cameron, the county seat of Milam County. In 1873, George Green, B. F. Ackerman and Frank Smith sold 400 acres of land to the International-Great Northern Railroad, which was laying track from Hearne to Austin. A sale of town lots was held on September 3, 1873, and the track was completed to Rockdale in early February 1874. The new town was named by Mrs. B. F. Ackerman for a rock, which was twelve feet high and had a circumference of twenty feet. The rock was adjacent to the road just outside Rockdale to Cameron.