[3] Jack and Caroline Lathum and Chaney and Isabella Couch are the earliest known settlers to arrive near Deer Creek in San Saba County in the 1850s.

[5] A different community named Deerton had been granted a post office on March 17, 1879, and Samuel Hayes was appointed as postmaster.

[6] In 1880, the settlers of Deer Creek moved two miles inside the Mason County line, and renamed their settlement Fredonia.

[7] Fredonia had a grist mill, a stage stop, and a coop store run by The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.

Fredonia received its first telephone line in 1914, and a gasoline filling station coinciding with the increasing usage of the automobile.