Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Plantersville, TX

Plantersville is one of Texas's newest cities — the community in southeastern Grimes County did not incorporate as a city until May 15, 2017.

Plantersville's roots are far older than its city charter: American settlers, primarily from Alabama and Arkansas, arrived in the 1830s, and a recognizable community had formed by about 1840 on land tied to Austin colony headright grants.

In 1843 Alabaman Isaac Baker began building the Cedars, an impressive 2,850-acre plantation three miles northeast of the settlement.

A post office was established in 1856, and the town was officially named Plantersville — a name suggested by Mrs. J. L. Greene to honor the planters who had settled the site.

Plantersville reported 400 residents in 1890, but it shrank during the 20th century and its population stayed near 200 for decades, standing at an estimated 212 in both 1990 and 2000.

The 2020 census — the first taken after incorporation — counted 464 people in Plantersville, living in 190 households with a median age of 42.1 years.

Since 1974, Plantersville has been home to the Texas Renaissance Festival, the largest Renaissance festival in the United States, held on a 55-acre recreated 16th-century English village near the town.

The Texas Renaissance Festival draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to tiny Plantersville each fall — more than 644,000 visitors were recorded in 2017 alone, over a thousand times the town's own population.

Plantersville sits at the junction of Texas State Highway 105, Farm to Market Road 1774, and the old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, directly adjacent to the city of Todd Mission.

Public education in Plantersville is provided by the Navasota Independent School District, with Navasota High School as the area's comprehensive high school.