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History of Mount Pleasant

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Mount Pleasant sits a little higher than you might expect, a gentle rise in the rolling East Texas landscape. You can imagine why the early settlers chose this spot back in 1848 – a pleasant hill, they called it, and the name stuck. For years, the town grew slowly, drawing its life from the land. Even today, driving around, you’re surrounded by loblolly pines, and you know agriculture, especially poultry, keeps a lot of families going. Underneath the asphalt downtown, there's still a brick street, a century-old reminder of how things used to be. Of course, time changes everything. Interstate 30 now runs just south of town, connecting Mount Pleasant to Dallas and Texarkana. Lake Bob Sandlin, not far away, brought recreation and new faces. Though it's a small town, it’s had its moments in the spotlight. Despite the changes, Mount Pleasant has held onto its friendly, small-town feel, a welcoming place in the heart of East Texas.

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Mount Pleasant is the site of Walmart's first store in Texas, marking a significant moment in the retail giant's expansion. Additionally, Radar, who lived in the city from 2006 to 2008, was recognized as the world's tallest living horse, a unique record that adds to the city's history.

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The Titus County Courthouse, located at the Downtown Square, is an important historical building in Mount Pleasant. It has a history of resilience, having burned down three times since 1850, with the current building constructed in 1895 after a devastating fire that destroyed county records. The courthouse has been remodeled in 1940, 1962, and restored to its 1940 appearance in 1991.

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Towler, Annie McLean Moores

1893

Annie McLean Moores Towler, banker, clubwoman, and the first female president of a national bank in Texas, was born in Texas on April 7, 1860. She was the firstborn child of William Pinckney McLean and Margarette Batte McLean. The 1870 U.S. census recorded the McLean family in Mount Pleasant, Titus County, Texas, where she attended school. Annie McLean married her next-door neighbor, Charles Washington Moores, in the early 1880s. They had no children. In 1883 her husband co-founded the first private bank in Mount Pleasant with J. T. McDonald, Thompson Morris, and C. C. Carr. After her husband died in 1888, Annie Moores served as a director and an officer with the bank, including as president of the private bank. The private bank became a national bank on March 28, 1892. When it formed, she was one of nine stockholders to serve on the bank's board of directors and would retain that directorship position until her death. C. C. Carr served as the first president for the rest of 1892 until the board elected her to that position on January 1, 1893. Thus Annie Moores became the first woman president of a national bank in Texas, and some sources credited her as the first in the United States. The First National Bank of Mount Pleasant joined the Texas Bankers Association . The 1893 Banking Law Journal called her the "youngest bank president in the state of Texas." Moores served as president of the First National Bank of Mount Pleasant from 1893 to 1899 and 1906 to 1915. She served as vice president from 1900 to 1905. The Texas Bankers Association named "Mrs. Annie M. Moores, Mt. Pleasant" to the 1900-01 standing Committee on Finance and Auditing. She became the first woman appointed to a statewide office within the Texas Bankers Association. With the death of her sister, Ida (wife of C. C. Carr), in 1900, Annie devoted the next few years to raising her nieces and nephew. From the mid-1890s to 1907 Moores divided her time between two homes-she spent some of her time attending to business affairs in Mount Pleasant but also lived with her parents in Fort Worth, where she was active in social affairs and often mentioned in society news. In 1894 she attended and spoke at the first annual Texas Women's Press Association ( see TEXAS PRESS WOMEN ) meeting. She partly owned the Titus County Times , which ultimately became the Times Review of Mount Pleasant. In the late 1890s she served on the board of the Fort Worth Public Library Association. She was also active in the Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth. In April 1898 Moores gave a well-received address at the opening evening of the first annual convention of Texas Women's Clubs ( see TEXAS FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS ). Her speech on free public libraries contained historical references and quotes from great writers and reflected the breadth of her education. She had studied piano, voice, and elocution at the New England Conservatory; literature and sociology at Stanford University; Spanish in Mexico; and French in New Orleans and France. In 1902 Annie Moores served as the secretary of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs state secretary to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She spoke often at the annual state and national meetings. The 1902 meeting in Los Angeles noted attendees would be "honored with addresses by several of the world's most noted women." Annie spoke on the topic of traveling libraries and traveling art collections. In November 1902 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission appointed Moores to the Board of Lady Managers for the St. Louis World's Fair. Named to the executive committee of the board, she was called "one of the most prominent members" of the board and described as "bright, witty and entertaining in the extreme." She served on the Committee for Foreign Relations and headed the committee to select a design for a pin for the Board of Lady Managers. She was one of the seven members of the twenty-four-member bo

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Crabtree, Riley

1912

Riley Crabtree, country music artist and regular performer on Big D Jamboree , was born on a farm in Mount Pleasant, Texas, on February 19, 1912. The youngest of eight children, he was stricken with polio when he was two years old, and the effects of the disease resulted in his dependence on crutches for the rest of his life. As a young man, he was inspired by the music of Jimmie Rodgers , and Crabtree’s heartfelt and bluesy vocal earned him first place at a singer’s convention on KPLT radio in Paris, Texas, in 1938. He toured with various acts through the World War II years, and around late 1945 he formed his own group, the Hillbilly Ramblers. They built up a popular following with their performances on KIMP radio in Mount Pleasant. In 1949 Crabtree signed with the Talent (later known as Star Talent) label in Dallas and recorded at engineer Jim Beck ’s studio. Crabtree chose to lay down songs by his idol Jimmie Rodgers during two sessions and also cut and released his own song, “Free From Shackles and Chains,” which achieved notable success locally. Impressed by Crabtree’s talents, producer Don Law signed him to Columbia on November 13, 1950. His remake of “Shackles and Chains” paired with “Get Away From It All” was also successful and gained Crabtree notice by Nashville and an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry as a regular cast member. He chose not to move to Nashville but opted instead to remain in Dallas and join the cast of Big D Jamboree —a country program broadcast on KRLD every Saturday night. He based his decision in part out of responsibility to support his wife and two children with his day job as an auto mechanic—as his record contract never provided enough money to make a full-time living. On the Jamboree , Crabtree performed with an impressive cast of regulars as well as rising stars, including Sonny James, Hank Locklin, Sunshine Ruby, Charline Arthur , the Light Crust Doughboys , Billy Walker , and many others. His contract with Don Law and Columbia ended in late 1953, but he signed on with the Ekko label out of the West Coast two years later. From the later 1950s through 1965 Crabtree appeared on a number of independent labels, including Country Picnic (where he released “Tattle Tattle Tale” in 1957), Security, York, and Country Hit. He also branched out into rockabilly. He suffered a stroke by the end of the 1960s and consequently was confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. He died in a fire caused by a defective electric blanket on April 1, 1984. He had apparently remarried, and his wife was able to escape the blaze and survived. Crabtree’s songs reached new audiences in the early 2000s with the release of two CDs, Riley Crabtree—28 Original Tracks and The Rare Riley Crabtree Radio Sessions on two German labels, as well as a number of tracks on The Guys of Big “D” Jamboree in 2002.

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Jones, Dudley William

1861

Dudley W. Jones, Confederate Army officer, one of five children of Henry and Martha (Heron) Jones, was born in Lamar County, Texas, in 1840. He was the grandson of Jesse Jones, one of the first settlers of what is now Lamar County, where the family settled in 1836. In 1840, the year of Jones's birth, the family moved to the Titus County community of Mount Pleasant. Jones was primarily educated by his mother and in the common schools of the area and then attended Maury Institute at Coffeeville. He was said to be "a great ladies' man." At the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to Mount Pleasant and enlisted as a private in the Titus Greys, Company I of Col. William B. Simms's Ninth Texas Cavalry. When the regimental adjutant, named Bell, was "accused of Abolitionism and Bigamy-the latter being pretty strongly proven upon him," the men of the regiment hanged him and elected Jones first lieutenant and adjutant in his place, on October 14, 1861. During the first year of the war his regiment served with Gen. Benjamin McCulloch 's Army of the West in Arkansas, Missouri, and Indian Territory. After the battle of Elkhorn Tavern in March 1862 the regiment was transferred to Mississippi, where it was reorganized near Corinth on May 26. In this reorganization Jones, although only twenty-two, was elected colonel, replacing Nathan W. Townes, who had resigned soon after superseding Simms. At this time the regiment became part of Lawrence Sullivan Ross 's famed brigade. Commanding the Ninth Texas Cavalry on March 5, 1863, Jones distinguished himself in the defeat and capture of a strong federal reconnoitering expedition at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, and in the defeat of the federal cavalry raid against railroad communications at Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, in the latter part of July 1864. For the final few weeks of the war Jones commanded Ross's brigade. After the war he traveled about the United States for about a year before returning to his father's farm in 1866; he was elected to the Constitutional Convention of 1866 . He was also president of the Texas Club, an organization of former Confederates, and a member of the committee that oversaw the removal of the remains of Albert Sidney Johnston from New Orleans to Austin in 1867. In 1867 he moved to Houston, began the practice of law in the firm of Jones and Barzizer, and edited one of the city's first daily newspapers, the Ku Klux Vidette . He died of a "hemorrhage of the bowels" on August 14, 1869, and is buried in Houston.

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Henry Clay Thruston

1833

Estimated to be between seven feet one inch and eight feet tall, Henry Clay Thruston became known nationally and internationally for his height. Born in South Carolina (Greenville Co.), Thruston wed Mary B. Thruston, a cousin, in 1833; they had two children. In 1861, Thruston joined the Confederate effort for the Civil War, and despite his conspicious height, was only wounded twice. By 1874, the Thrustons had moved to Titus County, purchasing land near the Daphne Community. Thruston also toured with P.T. Barnum's Circus as "The Tallest Man in the World." Seen by large crowds throughout America and in Europe, Thruston became a part of late 19th century popular culture. (2009)

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Dellwood Park

1830

Before 1830, Caddo Indians had campgrounds here around mineral springs flowing red, white, and blue waters. First home at future Mount Pleasant was built here in 1830s by Benjamin Gooch. A health-recreational resort by 1895, springs area was site (1909-16) of the lavish Dellwood Hotel, built by the Red Mineral Springs Development Co., headed by Dr. T. M. Fleming. These steps are from Dellwood Hotel, which burned. Favorite spot for Confederate conventions, political rallies, and other meetings, the site was acquired 1951 by city of Mount Pleasant, as Dellwood Park.

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Titus County C.S.A.

1846

Created and organized in 1846. Named for pioneer resident Andrew Jackson Titus (1814-1855), who opened county's first road, to river port in Jefferson. Until after the Civil War, Titus County also included areas of present-day Franklin and Morris counties. Six mail routes going by horseback, had pack mules to follow lead horse. High waters in creeks and Sulphur River often halted travel. Record time to haul cotton to Jefferson was 5 days by ox wagon. In 1860 had 9,648 people. Voted 411 to 275 in favor of secession. Sent 10 military companies to Civil War. While home tables drew heavily on game foods (deer, wild turkeys, pigeons, bear), county furnished Confederate commissary with beef, butter, corn, rice, cotton, oats, sweet potatoes, flour, cornmeal, leather, lumber, pottery, tobacco, whiskey and wool. Wartime manufacturing plants included 9 sawmills, 8 gristmills, tanneries and a steam powered distillery. Mount Pleasant had a Confederate transportation depot employing blacksmiths, carpenters, harness makers, wheelwrights. It procured equipment and horses and mules, and made gear, harness and wagons for the purpose of moving men, army supplies and government owned cotton.

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Sports in Mount Pleasant

⭐ HOMETOWN LEGENDS Class 5A · Football

Mount Pleasant Tigers — Mount Pleasant — a college & pro athletic pipeline

3 alumni who reached major-college or pro sports

Mount Pleasant High School, a Class 5A institution in Northeast Texas, has a proud tradition of athletic excellence. The Tigers have seen several of their own go on to achieve success at the highest levels of sports, representing their hometown with distinction. These former student-athletes exemplify the dedication and skill fostered within the school's athletic programs, inspiring current and future generations of Tigers.

Among the notable alumni who have continued their athletic careers in major college or professional sports are some familiar names. Maury Buford, a former NFL punter, stands out for his professional achievements. He is joined by Barry Minter, a former NFL linebacker, and Chaun Thompson, also a former NFL linebacker, who each made their mark in professional football after their time as Tigers.

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  • Maury Buford — , former NFL punter
  • Barry Minter — , former NFL linebacker
  • Chaun Thompson — , former NFL linebacker
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Maury Buford went on to become a former NFL punter.

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Everything Near Mount Pleasant

199 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • Mount Pleasant, TX

    Mount Pleasant sits a little higher than you might expect, a gentle rise in the rolling East Texas landscape. You can imagine why the early settlers chose this spot back in 1848 – a pleasant hill, they called it, and…

  • The Pleasant Mound That Named a Town · 0.1 mi

    Mount Pleasant sits on a broad hill of oak and hickory in northeast Texas, and its name reaches back before the town itself. Local tradition holds that the Caddo people spoke of a "Pleasant Mound" in the heart of what…

  • Titus County C.S.A. · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    Created and organized in 1846. Named for pioneer resident Andrew Jackson Titus (1814-1855), who opened county's first road, to river port in Jefferson. Until after the Civil War, Titus County also included areas of…

  • Stonewall School · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Stonewall School. Its roots go back to 1867, when classes were held in the Bridges Chapel Methodist Church. Local legend says a teacher told the community to 'stand together like a…

  • West New Hope United Methodist Church · 0.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of West New Hope United Methodist Church. The congregation started in 1886 when a sanctuary from Tranquil was moved here, with land donated by the Killingsworths. In 1909, that building was…

  • First Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the First Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant. Organized in 1881 by Rev. William Waldo Brimm, the congregation built its first frame church here a couple of years later. The church has…

  • Towler, Annie McLean Moores · 0.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Annie McLean Moores Towler, banker, clubwoman, and the first female president of a national bank in Texas, was born in Texas on April 7, 1860. She was the firstborn child of William Pinckney McLean and Margarette Batte…

  • Crabtree, Riley · 0.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Riley Crabtree, country music artist and regular performer on Big D Jamboree , was born on a farm in Mount Pleasant, Texas, on February 19, 1912. The youngest of eight children, he was stricken with polio when he was…

  • Jones, Dudley William · 0.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Dudley W. Jones, Confederate Army officer, one of five children of Henry and Martha (Heron) Jones, was born in Lamar County, Texas, in 1840. He was the grandson of Jesse Jones, one of the first settlers of what is now…

  • Henry Clay Thruston · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker

    Estimated to be between seven feet one inch and eight feet tall, Henry Clay Thruston became known nationally and internationally for his height. Born in South Carolina (Greenville Co.), Thruston wed Mary B. Thruston, a…

  • Wood, Joseph George Warren · 0.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Titus County, near Mount Pleasant, where Joseph George Warren Wood raised a regiment for the Confederacy. <break time="400ms"/> In <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1862</say-as>, Wood…

  • Titus County · 0.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Titus County, a place named for an early Red River settler. The story of how this area became a county starts back in 1835 when Kendall Lewis, the first Anglo settler, moved in. He patented the…

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  • Mount Pleasant, TX (Titus County) · 0.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Mount Pleasant, the county seat of Titus County. This town got its start in 1846, right when the county was formed. Early settlers donated the land, and a post office opened up the next year. For…

  • Dellwood Park · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker

    Before 1830, Caddo Indians had campgrounds here around mineral springs flowing red, white, and blue waters. First home at future Mount Pleasant was built here in 1830s by Benjamin Gooch. A health-recreational resort by…

  • The Chicken King in the Ten-Dollar Hat · 1.1 mi

    The story of modern Mount Pleasant is inseparable from one man: Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim. It started in 1946, when his brother Aubrey and a partner bought a little feed store over in Pittsburg and Bo came in with them. From…

  • The Power Plant and the Hot Water Lake · 1.1 mi

    Just southwest of Mount Pleasant lies a massive feat of industrial engineering driven by local geology. In the 1970s, Texas Utilities built the Monticello Steam Electric Station to generate power for the growing state.…

  • The Night the Records Burned · 1.1 mi

    The courthouse in the center of Mount Pleasant is not the one the county started with. It is the sixth. In September 1895 fire took the old brick courthouse and nearly all of Titus County's records with it. Deeds,…

  • The Dirt-Floor Shop That Built a Rodeo Empire · 2.1 mi

    On South Jefferson Avenue in Mount Pleasant stands one of the largest ranch, rodeo, and farm equipment makers on the planet. It began in a one-room, dirt-floor shop in Marvin Priefert's backyard. In 1962 Priefert bought…

  • A Star in the Window, a Marker by the Road · 2.4 mi

    This road carries a Blue Star Memorial Highway designation, one of a string of them across Texas. The name comes from a family tradition. When someone in a household was serving in the armed forces, the family displayed…

  • W.R.M. Slaughter Home · 2.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the W.R.M. Slaughter Home, a dog-trot log cabin built in 1855 by John Sharp. Slaughter, a Confederate veteran, bought it in 1870 and it later served as the post office for the Greenhill community…

  • The Movie Theater Kid From Mount Pleasant · 2.6 mi

    The Farm to Market Road Twenty Three Forty Eight bridge in Titus County, on the stretch between State Highway Forty Nine and U S Highway Sixty Seven, is the Army Staff Sergeant Clay Allen Craig Memorial Bridge. Clay…

  • Nevill's Chapel Cemetery · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Nevill's Chapel Cemetery, established by the Alexander B. Nevill family when they settled here in 1838. The earliest burial dates to 1854, but perhaps the most notorious is James C. Rowland, a Nevill…

  • Broadstreet Farmhouse · 3.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Broadstreet Farmhouse. Built by Paris and Mary (Harris) Broadstreet soon after they came from Mississippi (1861), settling 5 miles southeast of here. A son, Samuel (1864-1934), graduated from the…

  • Bridges Chapel Cemetery · 3.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Bridges Chapel Cemetery, a final resting place for Titus County pioneers. In 1868, tragedy struck the founding Bridges family: Mary Bridges Williams died in childbirth, and her mother, Candice, and…

  • Cherokee Trace · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Northeast Texas, and right here, you might be on a path blazed by the Cherokee Nation around 1821. This was the Cherokee Trace, a vital route for Native Americans, traders, and eventually,…

  • Clark, Joseph Addison · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through what was once Titus County, and right here, in Thorp Spring, a remarkable educator named Joseph Addison Clark started a school that would eventually become Texas Christian University. Clark,…

  • Ringo's Ferry · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Northeast Texas, near the border of what was Red River County, and you're passing over the Sulphur River. Back in the 1840s, this river was a major obstacle, prone to massive floods. That's why…

  • Center Grove, TX (Titus County) · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Center Grove is a small rural community on County Road 4340 about seven miles southeast of Mount Pleasant in southeastern Titus County. Settlers came to this area around the 1860s. Members of the David Yancey Sr. family…

  • Wilkinson, TX · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Wilkinson is at the junction of Farm roads 71 and 1402, between White Oak Creek and Sulphur River thirteen miles north of Mount Pleasant in northern Titus County. Until well into the twentieth century the area between…

  • Fort Sherman · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through what is now Titus County, near Lake Bob Sandlin State Park. Right here, in December of <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1838</say-as>, Fort Sherman was established. It was a frontier…

  • Nodena, TX · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Nodena was on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway five miles east of Mount Pleasant in eastern Titus County. In 1908 L. C. Libby, former superintendent of the Mount Pleasant school district, began a coal-mining operation…

  • Lake Bob Sandlin · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through East Texas, near Mount Pleasant and Pittsburg. Right here is Lake Bob Sandlin, a reservoir created to bring water and industry to this region. It all started back in 1966 with the Titus County…

  • Lake Bob Sandlin State Park · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Titus County, not far from Mount Pleasant. This area, once home to old Fort Sherman and the Cherokee Trace, was settled in the 1830s. Farmers here grew corn and cotton, and lumber was also…

  • Blodgett, TX · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Blodgett is at the junction of Farm roads 21 and 127, ten miles southwest of Mount Pleasant in southwestern Titus County. This rural community began in the late 1800s and was known by the name of Liberty. Early farming…

  • Cookville, TX · 4.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Cookville is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 67 and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, seven miles northeast of Mount Pleasant in eastern Titus County. In 1867 Andrew B. Cook opened a general store on the major…

  • The Town the Railroad Built · 6.4 mi

    As you drive through Winfield, look at how the streets are laid out. That's no accident - this town exists because of a railroad. Around 1880 the Texas and St. Louis Railway, the line that grew into the St. Louis…

  • How Lignite Powers Texas · 6.4 mi

    The landscape around Winfield holds the key to a big engineering story - one that has now ended. Beneath the East Texas soil lies the Wilcox Group, a formation packed with lignite, a young, moist, low-grade coal. In the…

  • Winfield, TX · 6.4 mi

    Winfield's history is deeply intertwined with the Texas and St. Louis Railway. In 1880, when the railway was being constructed, the citizens of Gray Rock refused to donate money and land for the route, leading W. C.…

  • From Cotton Fields to Coal Mines · 6.4 mi

    For its first century, Winfield's fortunes rose and fell with agriculture. But in the 1970s a different kind of harvest began, one that came from deep underground. Vast deposits of lignite coal lay just below the…

  • The End of the Winfield Wildcats · 6.4 mi

    For most of the 20th century, the heart of this community was the Winfield Independent School District. The school was more than a place for learning; it was the town's social center and a source of immense local pride.…

  • The Rev. Edward Hollister Green · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Mount Pleasant, where the Rev. Edward Hollister Green founded a church on September 23rd, 1860. He'd come to Texas after preaching in Tennessee since 1853. Educated in Kentucky and Indiana, Rev.…

  • Center Grove Cemetery · 6.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving by Center Grove Cemetery, originally called Yancey Cemetery. The first land was donated in the mid-1860s by David Yancey, Sr., and an orphaned infant was the first to be buried here. The cemetery got its…

  • Caddo Indian Communities in the Cypress Creek Drainage · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the Cypress Creek drainage, an area that was home to Caddo Indian communities as early as A.D. 800. These complex societies developed advanced agriculture and civic centers, leaving behind clues…

  • A Lake Named for the Man Who Willed It · 7.8 mi

    About six miles southwest of Mount Pleasant, Big Cypress Creek widens into a 9,460-acre reservoir known as Lake Bob Sandlin. As early as the 1950s local leaders wanted a lake here to secure the region's water and draw…

  • Camp, Colonel John L. · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Pittsburg, and right here is the story of Colonel John L. Camp. He arrived in Texas all the way from Alabama back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1849</say-as>, first practicing law and…

  • Camp County · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker

    Hey road trippers! You're driving through Camp County, Texas, formed way back in 1874. This whole area was carved out of Upshur County and organized just a few months later the same year. It's named for John Lafayette…

  • Monticello Missionary Baptist Church · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Monticello, a community named for Thomas Jefferson's Virginia home. By the 1890s, it boasted stores, mills, gins, and a brick factory. The Monticello Baptist Church, first referenced in 1878,…

  • Winfield Cemetery · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Miller's Cove, near where brothers Calvin and William Barrett settled in 1853, an area that became known as Barrett. In 1892, the community was renamed Winfield. The earliest marked graves here…

  • Winfield, TX · 8.3 mi

    The name 'Winfield' has a unique origin, stemming from the town's railroad history. Initially called Barrett after W.C. Barrett who donated land for a depot, the name changed to Carr in 1887 when the post office opened,…

  • Winfield, TX · 8.3 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Titus County, heading west of Mount Pleasant, and you're passing through Winfield. This town owes its very existence to a bit of a neighborhood feud back in 1880. The railroad was coming through,…

  • Titus County · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Titus County, formed back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1846</say-as>. It's named for Andrew J. Titus, a pioneer, Mexican War soldier, and state legislator who lived from 1814 to 1855.…

  • Gray Rock Cemetery · 9.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Gray Rock Cemetery, a community burial ground that may hold unmarked graves from the 1840s, when this frontier highway town was first settled. The oldest marked grave is an infant from 1872, but an…

  • Valley View School, Site of · 9.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through what used to be the Valley View School District, formed back in 1893. A schoolhouse was moved here, then expanded, serving students up through the eighth grade. Valley View closed its doors in…

  • Snow Hill Baptist Church · 10.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Snow Hill area near Daingerfield. Settlers arrived here in the early 1840s, and by 1852, this Baptist congregation was organized. Their first sanctuary, which also served as a schoolhouse, was…

  • Snow Hill Cemetery · 10.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Snow Hill Cemetery, established in 1870. It was recognized as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2004.

  • Cooper's Chapel Church and Cemetery · 10.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Cooper's Chapel Church and Cemetery. The pioneer families of William Cooper and William Ellis moved from Tennessee and settled here sometime during the 1850s. The burials of W. A. Cooper, Lizzie…

  • Concord Meeting House · 10.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Concord Meeting House, built around 1860. It replaced an earlier log church and served not only as a place of worship but also for school and voting. Today, it's a Baptist Church.

  • Hayes Cemetery · 10.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Hayes Cemetery, established around 1850. It was recognized as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2004.

  • Ripley Massacre · 10.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Franklin County, near where the Ripley family settled in 1837. On April 10, 1841, tragedy struck. While Ambrose Ripley was away, a band of Native Americans attacked his farm. They killed his wife,…

  • Cash, Christine Benton · 10.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through East Texas, maybe near Pittsburg, and right here is a story of dedication. Christine Cash took over as principal of the Center Point school in 1911. Under her leadership, this community school…

  • Pittsburg, TX · 10.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Pittsburg, Texas, a town with a surprisingly lofty ambition around the turn of the 20th century. In 1901, local mechanic and minister Burrell B. Cannon, inspired by the Book of Ezekiel, built an…

  • Lightfoot, Jewel Preston · 10.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Camp County, not far from Pittsburg. Right here is where Jewel Preston Lightfoot, a Texas attorney general, started his legal career. After studying law while working as a telegrapher, he became…

  • Rogers, Augustus H. · 10.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through what is now Camp County, Texas, near Pittsburg. Back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1862</say-as>, this was Camp Murrah, where Augustus H. Rogers, a twenty-three-year-old captain, was…

  • Stafford-Paris House · 10.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Pittsburg, and if you look closely, you might spot the Stafford-Paris House, a beautiful Victorian built in 1899 for Eugene Fore. It's known for its ornate gingerbread woodwork. In 1913, it became…

  • Phillips, Charles Thomas · 10.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Camp County, not far from Pittsburg, where Charles Thomas Phillips served in the Texas House of Representatives. He was a farmer and a Confederate soldier before entering politics. Phillips…

  • Abernathy House · 10.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Abernathy House, built in 1896 for David Harper Abernathy and his family. This Queen Anne-style home features a wraparound porch and spindle work, and much of its original interior remains…

  • Camp County · 10.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Camp County, the third smallest Texas county, comprises 203 square miles of the East Texas timberlands, an area that is heavily forested with a great variety of softwoods and hardwoods, especially pine, cypress, and…

  • Sheppard, John L., Home · 11.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former home of John L. Sheppard, a prominent Texas figure. The Sheppard family lived in this house from 1884 until 1891. During that time, John L. Sheppard served as both a district attorney and…

  • William Harrison Pitts · 11.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Pittsburg, a town named for William Harrison Pitts. He arrived here from Georgia in 1854, bought land, and helped establish the settlement. Pitts donated land for the town and even chipped in cash to…

  • Pitts Family Cemetery · 11.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Pitts Family Cemetery, established by the founder of Pittsburg himself. The earliest burial here is Sarah Richardson Harvey Pitts, who died in 1862. Just a year later, Confederate Corporal Joseph…

  • Camp County Courthouse · 11.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Pittsburg, the county seat of Camp County. This impressive courthouse you see was built in 1928, replacing an earlier structure from 1881 that had become too small for the growing county. Designed…

  • First Methodist Church of Pittsburg · 11.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the First Methodist Church of Pittsburg. Organized in 1857 by the Rev. J. W. Harvey Hamill, its charter members included the Pitts family, for whom this town was named. The congregation…

  • Pittsburg, TX · 11.2 mi

    A notable event in Pittsburg's history was the early flight attempt in 1902 by the Ezekiel Air Ship Mfg Co. This event stands out as a significant moment in the city's past, reflecting its early engagement with aviation…

  • Site of First Carnegie Library in Texas · 11.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Pittsburg, and right here is the site of the very first Carnegie Library in Texas! Back in 1898, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated five thousand dollars to help build it, matching local…

  • Cotton Belt Depot · 11.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Pittsburg, and right here is the old Cotton Belt Depot. The railroad first rolled into town in 1880, thanks in part to William Harrison Pitts, the city's founder, who donated land for a depot way…

  • Shootout at the Pittsburg Depot · 11.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of a deadly confrontation at the Pittsburg Depot on February 10th, 1885. It started as a domestic dispute between George 'Dallas' Smart, his wife Annie, and U.S. Army Lt. John W. Heard. As…

  • W.L. Garrett Building · 11.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Pittsburg, and right here is the W.L. Garrett Building, a landmark that's been part of this town since the 1890s. It started as a simple one-story shop. Then, in 1902, W.L. Garrett bought it for…

  • Pittsburg · 11.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Pittsburg, a town named for one of its earliest settlers. The W. H. Pitts family arrived from Georgia way back in 1854, and soon more folks followed. Pitts himself donated land for a townsite, and it…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Pittsburg (Pittsburg) · 11.3 mi

    Pittsburg (Pittsburg, TX) placed on the 4A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Lane Hall (3 HR); Keyton Mayben (3 HR).

  • Cherokee Trace · 11.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Camp County, and you're on the historic Cherokee Trace. This wasn't just any path; it was a vital Indian trading route laid out by the Cherokee people themselves, stretching all the way to…

  • Saint Beulah Christian Methodist Episcopal Church · 11.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Saint Beulah Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The C.M.E. Church in Pittsburg was organized by the Rev. Joseph Lloyd, who came here between 1870 and 1889. The name St. Beulah was adopted after…

  • Ezekiel Airship, The · 11.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Pittsburg, Texas, where a Baptist minister named Burrell Cannon had a dream of flight. In late 1902, a full year before the Wright brothers, Cannon and his investors launched the Ezekiel Airship…

  • Rockhill Cemetery · 11.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Rockhill Cemetery, a quiet link to a community that once thrived here. Settled after the Civil War, Rockhill saw many young lives cut short, with childhood mortality being tragically high. The…

  • Named by a Draw From a Hat · 11.9 mi

    This town has been called three different things, and the last one came out of a hat. Thompson Morris laid the place out in 1880 and, naturally enough, folks called it Morristown — except the Post Office Department…

  • How the 'Cotton Belt' Engineered a Town · 11.9 mi

    The tracks through Omaha are a monument to nineteenth-century engineering and cold economic logic. The line that became the St. Louis Southwestern — the Cotton Belt Route — was a massive undertaking: surveyors plotting…

  • Omaha, TX · 11.9 mi

    The name Omaha, Texas, has an interesting origin. In 1886, after the US Post Office had changed the town's name from Morristown to Gavett, a group of seven men from Randolph County, Alabama, decided to rename the…

  • The Legacy of the Carver School · 11.9 mi

    For decades, one of the most important buildings in Omaha wasn't on the main street. It was the Carver School, the heart of the town's African American community during the long era of segregation. Named for…

  • Walker, Ned · 12.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past a house built way back in 1859 for pioneer J. G. Henderson. Look for the hand-dressed pine used in the floors and ceilings, and those extra large interior doors – all handmade. This home was later…

  • Shelby, Carroll Hall · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through North Texas, and right here is a place that gave us Carroll Hall Shelby. Born in Leesburg in 1923, Shelby was a legendary race car driver and designer. He battled a heart condition his whole life,…

  • Pilgrim, Lonnie Alfred [Bo] · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Lonnie Alfred "Bo" Pilgrim, chicken magnate and philanthropist, the son of Alonzo Monroe Pilgrim and Nettie Gertrude (Gunn) Pilgrim, was born on May 8, 1928, in Pine, Texas, a small community in Camp County and just…

  • Harvard, TX · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Harvard, also known as Harvard Switch, is in the bottomlands of Big Cypress Creek on U.S. Highway 271 and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, four miles north of Pittsburg in northern Camp County. The community…

  • Prairie Creek (Camp County) · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Camp County, and right here, Prairie Creek flows. Back in 1928, a man named A. W. Smith had a big idea to connect Prairie Creek with another nearby creek, Greasy Creek. He dug a mile-and-a-half…

  • County Line, TX (Camp County) · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    County Line is on Farm Road 557 some thirteen miles from Pittsburg in far southeastern Camp County. It was named for its proximity to the Upshur and Morris county lines. The settlement was in existence by 1884.…

  • Ebenezer, TX (Camp County) · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Ebenezer is on Farm Road 557 five miles southeast of Pittsburg in southeastern Camp County. Settlement in the area began in the 1850s when Israel Braden Rape, Robert Devenport, and Thomas DeLaney (later shortened to…

  • Leesburg, TX · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Leesburg is on the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway and State Highway 11, seven miles west of Pittsburg in western Camp County. It was named for the John Lee family, early settlers in the area. In 1874 Leesburg was one of…

  • Pine, TX · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Pine is between the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and the junction of Farm Road 1522 and U.S. Highway 271, six miles south of Pittsburg in southern Camp County. Settlement in the area began in the late 1830s, and when…

  • Union, TX (Camp County) · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Union, an unmapped rural community in northwestern Camp County, is marked along Farm Road 1519 by the county line in the west and by Leesburg Cemetery in the east. Union was named for Union School, the first school in…

  • Yellow Bush, TX · 12.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Yellow Bush was ten miles southwest of Pittsburg in southwestern Camp County. It grew up in the 1870s around a school built by settlers who lived in the area. Although the community is referred to as Yellow Bush in Camp…

  • The Great Talco Oil Boom · 13.1 mi

    Imagine it's February 1936, and you're standing right where you are now. Instead of a quiet highway, you'd be in a sea of mud, noise, and excitement. This was the heart of the Talco oil boom, one of the last and wildest…

  • The Science of the Talco Boom · 13.1 mi

    The secret to Talco's explosive oil boom, which began with a discovery in February 1936, wasn't just that there was oil - it was the specific geology. The oil sits in fluvial sandstones of the Paluxy Formation, caught…

  • Talco, TX · 13.1 mi

    Talco, a small city in Titus County, Texas, has an intriguing origin. The name 'Talco' is believed to have been derived from either a local candy bar or the phrase 'Texas-Arkansas-Louisiana country'. Another theory…

  • Omaha · 13.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Omaha, Texas, a town with a name pulled right out of a hat! The area was first marked by the Seidicum Line, the old boundary between Bowie and Red River counties, surveyed way back in 1840. Then,…

  • New Mine Cemetery · 13.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the New Mine Cemetery, established by the New Mine Baptist Church. Land was deeded in 1892, but the congregation didn't start its own burial ground until 1930, with James M. Quillin as the first to…

  • Site of Omaha School · 13.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Omaha, where the public school story began back in 1892 with a wooden building near the railroad. The community built a new brick school in 1906, and even added a WPA-built gymnasium in the late…

  • New Mine Baptist Church · 13.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the New Mine Baptist Church. This congregation was officially organized on September 11, 1892, after Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Hart gave land for a new building. The church was founded so…

  • The Pre-Wright Brothers Flight of Pittsburg · 13.4 mi

    Here in Pittsburg, you're in the home of one of aviation's most curious tales. In 1902, a year before the Wright Brothers' famous flight at Kitty Hawk, a local inventor and Baptist minister named Burrell Cannon claimed…

  • The Racing Legend from East Texas · 13.4 mi

    You are in the hometown territory of an American icon, a man who changed the world of performance cars forever: Carroll Shelby. Born in nearby Leesburg in 1923, Shelby kept a place here in Pittsburg in his later years,…

  • The Engineering of the Ezekiel Airship · 13.4 mi

    The Ezekiel Airship wasn't just a local legend; it was a fascinating, if flawed, piece of early 20th-century engineering. Inventor and Baptist preacher Burrell Cannon rejected the fixed-wing designs of his…

  • The Chicken that Built a Town · 13.4 mi

    The story of modern Pittsburg is inseparable from the story of two brothers and a feed store. In 1946, Aubrey and Lonnie 'Bo' Pilgrim opened the Pilgrim's Feed Store just off the main square. They sold feed and 100 baby…

  • The Fire That Forged a Downtown · 13.4 mi

    Take a look at the buildings around downtown Pittsburg. Notice how they're almost all brick, and almost all cut from the same turn-of-the-century cloth? That is not an accident — and it isn't the scar of some single…

  • Omaha, TX · 13.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Morris County, and right here is the town of Omaha. It wasn't always called Omaha, though. When it was laid out in 1880, it was named Morristown. Then the post office called it Gavett. In 1886,…

  • Ebenezer Cemetery · 13.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Ebenezer Cemetery, officially established in 1857 when Israel B. Rape deeded land for the burial ground. The oldest known burial here is infant Pairlie Clementine Bailey, who died in September 1870.…

  • Carroll Hall Shelby · 13.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Leesburg, the hometown of Carroll Shelby. He wasn't just a race car driver, but a legendary designer who gave us the iconic Shelby Cobra, Daytona, and modified Mustangs. Born here in Camp County,…

  • Leesburg Cemetery · 13.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Leesburg Cemetery, established around 1870. Dwight Hays Townsend donated the land, and the earliest burials are thought to be two children moved from the schoolyard. The oldest marked grave belongs…

  • Reeves Chapel · 13.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Pittsburg, Camp County, where a community faced a problem in 1879: no place to bury their dead. Counce Reeves, a Civil War veteran, and his wife Selina stepped up, donating land for both a church…

  • Sheppard, John Morris · 14.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Morris County, Texas, and right here is the birthplace of a man who helped shape American law. Morris Sheppard, born in 1875, wasn't just a senator; he was the driving force behind the 18th…

  • Browntown, TX · 14.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Browntown was between White Oak Creek and the Sulphur River nine miles northwest of Omaha in northwestern Morris County. In 1900 the Sullivan Sanford Lumber Company bought 20,000 acres in northwestern Morris and…

  • Bolton Cemetery · 14.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Camp County, near Pittsburg, where a story of freedom and community unfolds. Back in the 1850s, Ebenezer and Martha Bolton were major plantation owners here. But after Ebenezer's death in 1877,…

  • Johnson, Joshua Foster · 14.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Johnson, Joshua Foster. (September 27, 1824 - February 15, 1877) Came to Texas from Tennessee in 1845, settling (1846) near site of Mount Vernon, which he helped found (as town of Keith) in 1848.…

  • Dandy Don, The Hometown Hero · 14.5 mi

    In Mount Vernon, Don Meredith was more than just the quarterback for 'America's Team.' He was the kid from down the street who made it, and his story is everywhere here. He quarterbacked the Mount Vernon Tigers in the…

  • Nearly 73,000 Acre-Feet Behind an Earthen Dam · 14.5 mi

    Just a few miles south of Mount Vernon lies Lake Cypress Springs, a huge recreational hub that looks like it's been there forever. But it's entirely man-made, a product of ambitious 1960s engineering. Before the lake,…

  • The Whistle of the Cotton Belt · 14.5 mi

    As you cross the railroad tracks in Mount Vernon, imagine it's 1887. Before then this was a small, isolated county seat of about three hundred fifty people, and getting your cotton to market meant hauling it by wagon…

  • Mount Vernon, TX · 14.5 mi

    Mount Vernon's history began with a settlement near Fanning Springs in 1818. The town was formally established in 1849 on land donated by Stephen and Rebecca Keith. The post office went through several names before…

  • Rockhill, TX (Franklin County) · 14.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Rockhill is on Farm Road 3122 a mile north of the north end of Lake Cypress Springs Dam, ten miles southeast of Mount Vernon, and eighteen miles northeast of Winnsboro in Franklin County. It had two churches, a school,…

  • Wright - Vaughan House, The · 14.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Wright-Vaughan House in Mount Vernon, the home of the town's first physician, Dr. William C. Wright. He arrived here in 1850 and built this house around 1870, even turning his earlier home into a…

  • Franklin County Courthouse · 14.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Franklin County Courthouse in Mt. Vernon. Back in 1911, a legal battle erupted over financing for this very building. Citizens sued to stop construction, but after a landmark decision by the…

  • First Baptist Church of Mount Vernon · 14.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're passing through Mount Vernon, home to the First Baptist Church. Organized in 1849 by missionary William M. Pickett, this congregation was first known as New Liberty. They held early services in a log building…

  • Rutherford Drugstore · 14.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Mt. Vernon, the site of the Rutherford Drugstore, the oldest business in town! It opened way back in 1869, started by John Griffith Lock Rutherford. He began with a small line of drugs before…

  • J. A. Drummond Farm Home · 14.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the J. A. Drummond Farm Home, built between 1854 and 1857. This house and farm have been in the same family ever since. Look for the original shutters, columns, and porch banisters, still in…

  • New Hope Baptist Church · 14.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of New Hope Baptist Church, organized in 1875 with 30 members. The congregation met in homes and under brush arbors, with baptisms in Stout's Creek. The church faced funding struggles and…

  • First United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon · 14.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Mount Vernon's first Methodist church, organized way back in 1855 with just 13 charter members. They met in homes and a Masonic Hall before buying this site in 1875 to build their first…

  • Meredith, Joseph Donald [Don] · 14.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Mount Vernon, Texas, the hometown of "Dandy Don" Meredith. He was more than just a star quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, leading them to championship games and setting passing records. After…

  • Johnson, Joshua Foster · 14.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through what is now Franklin County, but back in the 1800s, this was Titus County. And right here lived Joshua Foster Johnson, a man of many hats: farmer, lawyer, and preacher. He was elected to the Texas…

  • Mount Vernon, TX (Franklin County) · 14.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Mount Vernon, the county seat of Franklin County. This town has a fiery past! In the summer of 1860, during the Texas Troubles, the town of Mount Vernon was reportedly destroyed by fire. One…

  • Mount Vernon, TX (Washington County) · 14.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Washington County, and right here, you're passing the site of Mount Vernon. It was named after George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, by Judge John Stamps, who built his own impressive home on…

  • Stamps, John · 14.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Washington County, and right here, in 1841, the town of Mount Vernon was born. Its creation was thanks to John Stamps, a legislator who wielded enough influence to have this site declared the…

  • Franklin County · 14.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Franklin County, a place that didn't officially exist until 1875. <break time="400ms"/> It was carved out of Red River County and named for Judge Benjamin C. Franklin. <break time="400ms"/> The…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon) · 15.1 mi

    Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon, TX) placed on the 3A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Ryder Bowers (0.500 avg).

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Pewitt (Omaha) · 15.2 mi

    Pewitt (Omaha, TX) placed on the 2A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Dalton Hicks (0.521 avg, 3 HR).

  • Ferndale Club · 15.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising past the site of the Ferndale Club, originally called Fern, Fin and Feathers. It started in 1908 as a hunting and fishing club, with members from Pittsburg buying land, building a dam to create Ferndale…

  • Providence Cemetery · 15.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Providence Cemetery, established in 1845. It served as the burial ground for the Providence Primitive Baptist Church, organized in 1842. The first recorded land donors were William J. and Sarah…

  • The Lawmaker Who Got a Road Built in Two Months · 15.4 mi

    State Highway Thirty Seven through Franklin County is the Tom Ramsay Highway, named in two thousand seven for a Mount Vernon man who was still living to see it. Thomas Donald Ramsay was born in Mount Vernon in nineteen…

  • Franklin County · 15.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Franklin County, Texas, formed in 1875 from Titus County. It was organized just a few weeks later, on April 30th of that same year. The county is named for Benjamin C. Franklin, a hero of San…

  • Rocky Branch · 15.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through what used to be Rocky Branch, a community that started attracting travelers as early as the 1820s, thanks to all the creeks. Locals say the name came from those rocky creek beds. By the mid-1800s,…

  • The Boys Who Built the Park · 16.0 mi

    In the midst of the Great Depression, a different kind of army came to Daingerfield. They were the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, a New Deal program that put unemployed Americans to work on…

  • From Red Dirt to Steel Beams · 16.0 mi

    As you drive south of Daingerfield, you're passing the grounds of what was a marvel of 20th-century engineering: the Lone Star Steel plant. It was a fully integrated mill, meaning it handled every step of a complex…

  • The Confederate Ironworks · 16.0 mi

    During the Civil War, the Union blockade cut off most Confederate ports. Suddenly the red dirt around Daingerfield became a military asset. Northeast Texas was one of the only places west of the Mississippi River that…

  • The Daingerfield Tigers Dynasty · 16.0 mi

    If you really want to understand Daingerfield, you need to imagine the town on a Friday night in the fall. The lights of Mickey Mayne Tiger Stadium blaze, and the whole community is packed in the stands, wearing blue…

  • Center Point School · 16.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Pittsburg, heading into what was once the heart of a thriving African American community called Center Point. It started around <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1865</say-as>, with the…

  • Wheatville and Wheatville Cemetery · 16.0 mi · Historical Marker

    Wheatville started in the 1840s as a rest stop and general store, named for settler William Wheat. By the 1850s, it had a cotton gin, grist mill, school, and church. The first burial in the community cemetery was in…

  • Center Point Community · 16.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Pittsburg, but just a few miles back, you might have seen the site of Center Point. This community started in 1865, founded by Black Freedmen just after the Civil War. They built more than just…

  • Spring Hill Primitive Baptist Church of Christ · 16.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're passing the historic site of the Spring Hill Primitive Baptist Church of Christ. A meeting house was erected here in 1859. The church's history spans from 1852 to 1935.

  • Talco, TX · 16.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Titus County, and right here is Talco. This quiet town was once an oil boomtown, and it all started in February of <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1936</say-as>. That's when oil was…

  • The Iron Path That Built a Town · 16.3 mi

    The town of Naples exists because of a massive 19th-century engineering project: the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, known as the Cotton Belt Route. Imagine the challenge in the 1870s. Engineers had to survey a path…

  • Talco, TX · 16.3 mi

    In 1912, Talco made a strategic move to be closer to a railroad line, a decision that would significantly impact its future. The city's economy experienced a massive boom in 1936 with the discovery of oil, leading Talco…

  • Thompson, James · 16.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Daingerfield, and right here is the story of James Thompson, a veteran of the American Revolution! Born in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1759</say-as>, Thompson served in the North…

  • The Sweetest Time of Year · 16.3 mi

    If you drive through Naples in the heat of late July, you might feel a buzz in the air. That’s because you’ve arrived during the town’s biggest event of the year: the Naples Watermelon Festival. This tradition dates…

  • Daingerfield State Park · 16.3 mi · Historical Marker

    Most people think of Texas as flat and brown, which is why Daingerfield State Park exists as a quiet rebuke. Nestled in the Piney Woods of far Northeast Texas, the park surrounds an eighty-acre lake framed by sweetgum,…

  • Chapel Hill College · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Chapel Hill College, founded right here in Daingerfield. Chartered in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1850</say-as>, it opened its doors in 1852, thanks to land donated by Republic…

  • Cumberland Presbyterian Church · 16.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Daingerfield. This congregation traces its history back to 1849, holding services in homes before moving to the Chapel Hill College building in 1852.…

  • Daingerfield, C.S.A. · 16.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Daingerfield, a town that was a vital hub for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Local industries here were churning out supplies for the war effort. Imagine three tanneries, working overtime…

  • Culberson, Charles Allen · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Texas, and right here, Governor Charles Culberson made a controversial call. It was 1895, and Dallas was buzzing about a massive prizefight planned between heavyweight champ James J. Corbett and…

  • Iron and Steel Industry · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through East Texas, a region that saw a massive industrial boom during World War II. Right here, near Daingerfield, the Lone Star Steel Company built a huge facility in 1943. It was designed to produce…

  • Robison, James Thomas · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through East Texas, maybe near Daingerfield, and right here is the story of James Thomas Robison. Born in Cass County in 1861, Robison became a legislator and then, for over thirty years, served in the…

  • Daingerfield, TX · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Daingerfield, a town named for a fallen captain. Back in 1830, Captain London Daingerfield led about a hundred men in a fierce battle with Native Americans right near this spot. Daingerfield…

  • Beeson, William Edward · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    William Edward Beeson, Confederate infantry officer, school administrator, and teacher, was born in Berryville, Berkley County, Virginia, on October 21, 1822. His parents were Edward Beeson and Dulcabella Wilhelmina…

  • Colquitt, Oscar Branch · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Northeast Texas, and right here is Daingerfield, the town that shaped Oscar Branch Colquitt. He arrived here as a young man in 1878, working as a tenant farmer and attending the local academy.…

  • Rountree, Thomas H. · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Northeast Texas, not far from where Thomas H. Rountree became Captain of the Titus Hunters. Born in Alabama in 1836, Rountree moved to Daingerfield, in Titus County, before the Civil War. He was…

  • Johnson, Rev. Nathan S. · 16.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Daingerfield, where Rev. Nathan Johnson spent his final years. Born in Virginia in 1802, Johnson was licensed to preach in 1824 and served as a Methodist missionary to the Cherokee Indians. He…

  • Morris County · 16.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Morris County, organized back in 1875 with Daingerfield as its seat. It's named for William W. Morris, a prominent figure who served in the Texas Legislature during the Civil War and again in the…

  • Morris County · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Morris County, a place that might have been explored by Europeans way back in 1542. If Luis de Moscoso Alvarado did cross through here, it would make this one of the earliest explored areas in all…

  • Sheppard, John Levi · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Morris County, near Daingerfield. Right here, John Levi Sheppard, a local lawyer and judge, was making a name for himself in Texas politics. After serving as district attorney and then district…

  • Wallace, Ernest · 16.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through East Texas, near Daingerfield, the birthplace of Ernest Wallace. Wallace wasn't just a teacher; he became a renowned historian, particularly for his work on the Comanches. His book, 'The…

  • Hussey & Logan's Mill and Gin Factory · 16.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Daingerfield, and right here is the site of Hussey & Logan's Mill and Gin Factory. During the Civil War, this place was absolutely vital to the Confederacy. Texas cotton was the 'money of the…

  • Sheppard, Morris · 16.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Naples, Texas, the birthplace of Morris Sheppard, a titan of American legislation and a quiet champion of national defense. Born right here in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1875</say-as>,…

  • Daingerfield, TX · 16.7 mi

    The town of Daingerfield has a unique claim to fame in the world of music. The bluegrass instrumental tune 'Old Dangerfield' by Bill Monroe was named after this very town. This connection to the music world gives…

  • County Line Baptist Church and Cemetery · 16.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of County Line Baptist Church, with records dating back to 1859. The cemetery here has the earliest marked headstone from 1863 for a three-year-old boy. Later, the church building also…

  • The W. T. and T. C. Connor Buildings · 16.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of W. T. Connor's mercantile business, which he opened way back in 1866. By the 1880s, his son T.C. Connor joined him, and together they built these adjacent storehouses, rare examples of…

  • Naples · 16.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Naples, Texas, a town that owes its very existence to the railroad. Back in 1882, a rival town called Wheatville was booming just a few miles north. But when the railroad decided to bypass…

  • Hill, Arzell [Z.Z.] · 17.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Northeast Texas, and right here in Naples, Texas, a legend of soul and blues was born. Arzell 'Z.Z.' Hill started his musical journey in Dallas, singing gospel, but he went on to blend blues with…

  • Jones, George [Little Hat] · 17.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Northeast Texas, not far from where blues musician George 'Little Hat' Jones was born back in 1899. He grew up on a farm near the Sulphur River, the grandson of a former slave. Young George had to…

  • Naples, TX · 17.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Naples, Texas, a town with a name that conjures images of Italy, but its origin story is pure Texas railroad history. Right here, this community started as a simple stop on the Texas and St. Louis…

  • Naples Cemetery · 17.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Naples, home to a cemetery that started as a school burial ground. The first recorded burial was Elizabeth Baker in 1883. When the town of Belden was renamed Naples in 1895, this cemetery took on…

  • The Day the Bay of Naples Went Dark · 17.1 mi

    Here's a fun coincidence: this Texas Naples got its name in eighteen ninety-five, when townsfolk sent the post office a list of options and Naples was the one picked. The old railroad stop had been called Belden, and…

  • Pompeii's Victims Didn't Die the Way You Think · 17.1 mi

    Naples, Texas got its name in a plain way: it grew up around an eighteen-eighty railway station first called Belden, and in eighteen ninety-five the post office picked 'Naples' off a list residents submitted. There is…

  • How Naples Got Its Name — and Why It Almost Didn't · 17.1 mi

    Here's the honest story of the name on the sign. This Naples, up in Morris County, started out as a railroad stop when the Texas and Saint Louis Railway pushed through in eighteen eighty. Folks first called it Belden.…

  • The City of Naples Gave the World the Pizza · 17.1 mi

    Now, our Naples got its name in eighteen ninety-five, when locals sent the post office a list of choices and this one was picked — no tie to Italy at all. But it's a fun name to share. The Italian city of Naples is…

  • What Kind of Mountain Vesuvius Really Is · 17.1 mi

    Naples, Texas got its name in eighteen ninety-five, when residents sent the post office a list of choices and this one was picked — the town had been called Belden before that, and the match with the Italian city is…

  • Texas Naples Versus the Bay of Naples · 17.1 mi

    Let's play a quick game of Naples versus Naples, just for fun, and remember — our Texas Naples got its name pulled from a post office list back in eighteen ninety-five, not from any Italian city. But oh, what a contrast…

  • Clearwater Baptist Church · 17.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving near the site of the Clearwater Baptist Church. Organized in 1869 by Elisha Blanton and nine others, the congregation followed a sawmill owner when he relocated around 1875. They eventually built their…

  • Matinburg Cemetery · 17.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Matinburg Cemetery. Local tradition says it started in 1871 when W. P. Jones buried his wife, Delila, here. The land was deeded to Fairview Baptist Church in 1883, and annual spring cleanups…

  • Holly Springs Baptist Church · 18.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Holly Springs Baptist Church. It formed in 1903 from a merger of two earlier churches, with Reverend B. H. Sims as its first pastor. The congregation built its first sanctuary here before…

  • Pleasant Grove Cemetery · 18.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Pleasant Grove Cemetery, a resting place for many of the pioneer families who settled the Lafayette community in the 1850s. The earliest recorded burial here is little Thomas J. Harrison, who died in…

  • Mama, Don't Worry About Me · 19.0 mi

    State Highway Eleven in Morris County, between Daingerfield and Hughes Springs, is the Army Staff Sergeant Samuel T Castle Memorial Highway. Samuel Tyrone Castle was from Naples. He graduated with the Hughes Springs…

  • Caddo Trace · 19.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving along a path with a history as old as Texas itself! This is the Caddo Trace, originally a vital hunting and trade route for the Caddo Indians who lived in this northeast corner of the state. After 1840,…

  • Lafayette Cemetery · 19.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the Lafayette community, named for Matthew F. Locke's son. Locke deeded land here for a cemetery in 1858, though it already held two family burials. The oldest marked grave is T. E. Montgomery,…

  • Hastings, Capt. F. Marion · 19.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the home of Captain F. Marion Hastings, a Confederate veteran who served in raids across Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana before surrendering in 1865. He moved to Franklin County, Texas, that same…

  • Pleasant Hill Methodist Church and Cemetery · 19.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Franklin County, near Mt. Vernon. Back around 1850, settlers held Methodist camp meetings near a spring, and a lady's remark about it being a 'pleasant place' led to the name Pleasant Hill. The…

  • Cypress Church and Cemetery · 19.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Cypress Church and Cemetery, founded in 1851 as the Associated Cypress Baptist Church. The congregation built a meetinghouse here, and the site also served as a burial ground. Confederate…

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