Thorndale is an incorporated community on U.S. Highway 79 and Farm Road 486, twelve miles west of Rockdale in southwestern Milam County. It was established in 1878 about three miles west of its present site, shortly after the International-Great Northern Railroad was built throught the area. A railroad employee named the town after the region's abundatn thorny vegetation-mesquite thorn, prickly pear, and sagebrush.(History of Milam County,Texas)(Dallas:Taylor,1984)
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