Plum, TX

Plum is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas, United States. The 2020 census counted 366 residents. The area was initially settled by families from Tennessee on lands granted to Andrew Castleman in 1828 and John Cooke in 1831 and acquired the name Plum Grove. Plum is the second oldest established community in Fayette County. Areas in La Grange ISD are assigned to Blinn Junior College District. In Plum, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Plum, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Plum is on State Highway 71 and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, eight miles west of La Grange in Fayette County. Plum includes the Hopewell Baptist Church was the first Baptist church in Texas established west of the Colorado River.