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Gay Hill Old Gay Hill was once a place of note. James Weston Miller established, in , there an excellent school for girls, entitled the Live Oak Female Seminary. For many years it was an important seat of learning.
Though perhaps not as familiar a name as either Independence or Washington, there is a great deal of Texas history that is connected to the former residents of this small community. Gay Hill was named for Thomas Gay and William Carroll Jackson Hill. Gay and Hill were said to have been store owners in this Washington County settlement, though some accounts say that only Hill owned the store. The settlement was originally known as Chriesman Settlement after Horatio Chriesman
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