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Plum is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fayette County, Texas, located on State Highway 71 and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad about eight miles west of La Grange.

Plum began as Plum Grove, settled by families from Tennessee on lands granted to Andrew Castleman in 1828 and John Cooke in 1831, and it is the second oldest established community in Fayette County.

Plum was named for a grove of wild plum trees that grew in the area.

Plum is home to the Hopewell (now Plum) Baptist Church, the first Baptist church in Texas established west of the Colorado River and the first in Texas to hold an ordination service and administer the ordinance of baptism.

Plum organized its own Civil War unit, the Plum Grove Rifles, formed on July 8, 1861, under Captain Thomas C. Moore, largely as a training company whose members later joined regular Confederate units.

Plum received a post office in 1880, and by 1900 the community had two churches, two stores, two cotton gins, two blacksmith shops, a saloon, and a physician; its post office still operates today under ZIP code 78952.

Plum was transformed beginning in November 1890 by Czech and Moravian immigrant families from Hovězí, Moravia, whose arrival made Catholicism the community's predominant faith and led to the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church parish.

Plum first appeared as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which counted 366 residents, and the surrounding area got an economic boost from oil discovered in the Austin Chalk formation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.