Frost, Texas

Everything Frost is known for

1 song mention this city 0 artists from here

Music in Frost

Songs About Frost

Frost Texas Tornado Blues
Mississippi Sheiks
90%

Artists From Frost

No artists from Frost in the database yet.

Rivers & Roads in Song near Frost

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Frost.

Interstate 35 43 songs Interstate 45 8 songs Trinity River 11 songs Brazos River 42 songs Chisholm Trail 8 songs Interstate 20 13 songs

Musical Heritage

From a Blooming Grove Farmhouse to the Temptations RoadyGoat

One of the most unexpected names tied to this small Navarro County town belongs to Motown. Cornelius Grant was raised by his grandmother in Blooming Grove, where he taught himself guitar, and he carried that into the Motown machine during the label's explosive rise. He became guitarist, arranger, and musical director for the Temptations, working with the group from the 1960s into the early 1980s. His job was bigger than playing: he translated polished studio recordings into live shows, arranging parts for touring musicians and holding the group's sound together through changing singers and increasingly complex psychedelic-soul records. He was in that role across the era that produced My Girl, Ain't Too Proud to Beg, Cloud Nine, and Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, and he also worked with other Motown artists including Mary Wells and Marvin Gaye. There's a wrinkle in the record: some shorter biographies list Fairfield as his birthplace, while his detailed HistoryMakers biography places his birth and upbringing right here in Blooming Grove. Either way, this rural cotton country is securely part of where one of soul music's quiet architects came from. (Source: The HistoryMakers.)

RoadyGoat → · 5.5 mi away

History of Frost

Why Orchards Spray Water in a Freeze RoadyGoat

You're in Frost, Texas, so here's the frost tangent: spraying water during a freeze sounds backward, but water releases latent heat as it changes from liquid to ice. If irrigation continues at the correct rate, the freezing mixture can hold vulnerable plant tissue near thirty-two degrees instead of letting it fall to a more damaging temperature. Stopping too early, using too little water, wind, or evaporative cooling can make matters worse. Orchards also use wind machines to mix warmer air aloft into a shallow cold layer and sometimes heaters for added heat. Protection is applied physics, not simply coating blossoms in ice.

Ice Without Liquid Water RoadyGoat

You're in Frost, Texas, so here's the frost tangent: true frost forms when water vapor deposits directly as ice on a surface at or below freezing. Frozen dew takes a different route: liquid dew forms first, then freezes as the surface cools. Both can whiten grass, but their crystal histories differ. Hoarfrost is depositional frost with conspicuous interlocking needles, feathers, or fans, especially on branches, wires, and fences. On glass, humidity, cooling rate, dust, scratches, coatings, and other tiny surface differences guide branching crystal growth. The window pattern is not a frozen fern; it is water molecules organizing along changing paths of easiest growth.

Frost When the Forecast Says Thirty-Six RoadyGoat

You're in Frost, Texas, so here's the frost tangent: frost can appear even when the official low remains above thirty-two degrees because the reported air temperature is measured several feet above ground. On a clear, calm night, grass, roofs, and cars radiate heat toward the sky and may cool below freezing while sheltered air at instrument height stays warmer. Cold dense air also drains into valleys and low spots, creating frost pockets. A garden at the bottom of a slope can freeze while one uphill escapes. Forecast temperature is therefore a regional measurement, not the temperature of every leaf and windshield.

Frost, TX

1930

Frost, at the junction of State Highway 22 and Farm Road 667, twenty miles west of Corsicana in northwestern Navarro County, was established in 1881, when the St. Louis Southwestern Railway built from Corsicana to Hillsboro. The town was named for Samuel R. Frost , a local politician and attorney for the railroad. The tracks bypassed the nearby settlement of Crossroads, and within a short time all of the businesses in Crossroads moved to the new town. A post office opened in 1887, and Henry Jones established a school the following year. In 1890 Wylie N. Jones built a waterworks to supply the town from a nearby lake. He also built a small steamboat, at the time one of the few on an inland lake in Texas. By the early 1900s Frost had six cotton gins, an oil mill, several butcher shops, seven grocery stores, a number of dry-goods stores, two banks, and three drugstores; the estimated population in 1910 was 702. The town continued to prosper during the 1920s and reached a peak population of 913 in 1929. In 1930 a tornado killed twenty-two people in Frost and injured more than fifty. Much of the business district was destroyed. During the 1930s the community declined, partly because of the Great Depression and residents' flight to the cities. By 1945 Frost had a population of 671 and twenty-five businesses. The decline continued during the 1950s and 1960s, to a low of 495 in 1966. In 1990 Frost had a population of 647 and eight businesses. In 2000 the population was 648.

Tsha Handbook →

Frost

1887

Prior to 1887 the community of Cross Roads existed two miles south of this location. The town of Frost was created when a post office was established in March of that year to serve settlements west of Corsicana along the St. Louis, Arkansas, and Texas Railroad. Businesses previously located at Cross Roads moved to the new town. Land for the townsite was donated by R. J. Sanders and the town was named in honor of Samuel R. Frost (1846-1908), Navarro County judge and state legislator. The city of Frost was incorporated on June 7, 1893. Churches of several denominations and schools were organized in the early years of Frost's existence. A Methodist church was established in 1887, and three years later the Frost Baptist Church was organized. The Frost Common School District was created in May 1890. Two banks opened in Frost in the early 1900s and a newspaper, the Frost Enterprise, was published weekly. Many of the town's structures were destroyed or damaged in a May 6, 1930 tornado. Since its beginning Frost has remained an agricultural community, and retains the charm and atmosphere of a rural Texas town.

Historical Marker →

Frost Methodist Church

1860

This congregation traces its history to the 1860s, when a Methodist congregation was formed in the community of Cross Roads (about 2 mi. S). After the railroad was built through Navarro County in 1887, the church and community moved to the new town of Frost on the rail line. The Methodist Church building was destroyed in a 1930 tornado which devastated the town. The congregation had this sanctuary constructed in 1931. Built in a symmetrical plan, it features classical details in its central hipped roof, pedimented gable, and flanking hipped pavilions. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1990

Historical Marker →

Frost, Samuel R.

1867

Samuel R. Frost, state representative and district judge, was born to William and Louisa Frost in Montgomery County, Texas, on March 1, 1846; the family moved to Navarro County that same year. Frost's parents had come to Texas from North Carolina in 1845. He grew up on his father's farm in the Dresden-Raleigh community and was educated in Navarro County schools until the outbreak of the Civil War . At the age of seventeen, he entered the Confederate Army as a private in Company I of the Nineteenth Texas Cavalry. He traveled with this unit to Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana during the war. He subsequently returned to Texas and began a farming career, which he gave up in 1867 after Texas suffered an unusual blizzard. Frost attended school in Alvarado in 1867–68. He taught in county schools and studied law in the office of Clinton M. Winkler from 1868 to 1870, when he was admitted to the bar in Navarro County. He was appointed county attorney for Navarro County in 1871 and elected county judge on February 15, 1876. He was unanimously elected to represent his district in the Texas House of Representatives on November 5, 1878. He became district judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District in 1886 and served as flotorial representative of Johnson, Hill, Ellis, and Navarro counties in the Twenty-first Legislature in 1889. Frost later was tendered a position as judge of the Court of Civil Appeals for the state of Texas but declined. He was a strict believer in states' rights and a staunch Democrat. He was one of the organizers of the first water and gas plants of Corsicana. After his service in the Texas government, he returned to Navarro County to practice law and became the attorney for the Cotton Belt and the Houston and Texas Central railroads. He married Mary L. "Mollie" Winkler, daughter of Clinton Winkler, on June 4, 1872. They had nine children. On January 1, 1908, Frost died during an operation in Fort Worth. He was buried in Corsicana. Frost, in Navarro County, was named for him.

Tsha Handbook →

Italy Colored City Hall

1950

Frustrated by poor infrastructure, residents of an African American community in Italy called “the Hill” rallied to get a hearing with the city council in the mid-twentieth century. A group of African American men met in a small building on Poplar Street to discuss their impending meeting with the city council. The meeting between them and the all-white city council led to the establishment of the Italy Colored City Council around 1950. Elections for both city councils were held at the same time, and all citizens could vote on both ballots. In the first election for the Colored City Council, the people elected John Henry Farrow (1891-1959) as mayor, Nelton Tarrant (1913-1989) as secretary, and James “Jim” Hardeman (1885-1953), Matthew Sweatt (1882-1969), Walter Smith (1893-1961), Edd Lee Lewis (1900-1967), and William Costonia Jennings (1920-2009) as aldermen. A march 1951 issue of Ebony magazine featured the men in the article, “Texas’ first Negro Mayor.” Most, if not all, of the men elected to the council were descendants of enslaved people in Ellis County, illustrating the continued endurance of African Americans in Ellis County. The small wooden building with the sign “Colored City Hall” on the front was built in 1953 on Williams Street. The building served as a meeting place for African American council members and represented hope and progress for the Italy African American community. Despite the history of racial violence and segregation in Ellis County, the Italy Colored City Hall stands as a symbol of African American self-determination and political activism. (2017)

Historical Marker → · 8.4 mi away

Italy, TX

1879

Italy is at the junction of U.S. Highway 77 and State Highway 34, on the Blackland Prairie forty-five miles south of Dallas in southwest Ellis County. Although a few families had settled in the vicinity by 1860, the Aycock brothers built the first house on the present site of the town in 1879 and used it as a dwelling, grocery store, and post office. That year residents debated what to name the settlement. Some favored Houston Creek, because Sam Houston reportedly camped on the creek that flowed through town. Others wanted the name Egypt or Italy. The postal department rejected the first choice because of possible confusion with Houston Creek in Harris County. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, named the town Italy in 1880 because the climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy." The population was 500 in 1890. Settlers found the land good for cotton, corn, sweet potatoes, and wheat. The greatest impetus for growth occurred in December 1890, when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad arrived, and the town became a market center for the surrounding area. The next year the first newspaper was published, and Italy was officially incorporated. Besides trade and agriculture, residents were attracted to Italy because of its many schools and churches. Italy Institute, Southwestern Normal College, and Hope Institute educated the youth of the community and the surrounding counties. By 1894 more than 350 students were attending classes. Six churches held Sunday services by 1900. In March 1925 the Italy Independent School District was established. The population grew steadily in the early twentieth century, rising from 1,061 in 1900 to 1,500 in 1925. The International-Great Northern Railroad reached the town in 1901. In 1913 the first cream and crimson interurbans opened service between Dallas and Waco on what became the Texas Electric Railway. Italy profited from this service, particularly when the Texas Electric made the town an exchange point for freight with the Katy. Cotton ruled the economy by the 1920s, when Italy had five gins, a compress, and a cottonseed oil mill. The main road through Italy, a graded dirt road stretching from Dallas to Waco, was known as the King of Trails Highway. Although the local ice plant produced some electricity for the town, most electricity was brought in from Waco by transmission towers built by the Texas Electric. The Great Depression started a downward trend for Italy that lasted for thirty-five years. In 1930 the town had 1,230 residents and forty-five businesses. In 1960 the population was 1,183, and in 1970 the businesses numbered twenty. Throughout the period agricultural operations expanded and displaced much of the rural population. An upswing began in 1975, when milo and corn production increased. The town had become a bedroom community for the Dallas-Fort Worth area by 1980, when the population was 1,306. The town sponsors an Italian festival each June and supports the S. M. Dunlap Memorial Library. In 1990 the population was 1,699. In 2000 the population reached 1,993.

Tsha Handbook → · 8.7 mi away

Things to Do in Frost

food 19.8 mi away
Collin Street Bakery

August Weidmann arrived in Corsicana from Bavaria in 1896 and opened a little bakery on Collin Street. His DeLuxe Fruitcake packed with pecans cherries and…
food 20.2 mi away
Wolf Brand Chili Origin Corner

Lyman T. Davis parked his lunch wagon at this corner of Beaton Street and 5th Avenue in 1895, ladling out five-cent bowls of chili in front of the Blue Front…

Everything Near Frost

450 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

Explore Frost on the Map
All music from Texas → · Browse more cities