Murvaul, Texas

Name: Murvaul, Texas
Address: Murvaul, TX

Everything Murvaul is known for

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Music in Murvaul

Songs About Murvaul

Blood On the Saddle

Tex Ritter

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I’m Wastin’ My Tears On You

Tex Ritter

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Rye Whiskey

Tex Ritter

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There’s a New Moon Over My Shoulder

Tex Ritter

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You Two‑Timed Me One Time Too Often

Tex Ritter

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The Country Hall of Fame

Hank Locklin

"I could hear Tex Ritter singing his classic song High Noon"

Artists From Murvaul

Tex Ritter

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Murvaul

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

U.S. Route 59 9 songs Sabine River 13 songs Angelina River 4 songs Interstate 20 13 songs Interstate 49 4 songs

Musical Heritage

Tex Ritter RoadyGoat

Deep in the East Texas piney woods, Panola County put a singing cowboy on a Hollywood horse. Tex Ritter grew up on a farm right here, born in 1905 — and he learned his cowboy songs not out on the range but in a classroom at the University of Texas, from folklorist J. Frank Dobie and song-collector John Lomax. New York handed him the name: cast in a cowboy play, the company started calling him Tex, and it stuck for the rest of his life. He signed to Capitol Records one month after the label opened its doors. He sang the theme to "High Noon" — "Do Not Forsake Me" — and it won the Academy Award. Fifth man ever inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. And the streak ran in the blood: his son was the actor John Ritter.

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Tex Ritter Museum at the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame RoadyGoat

Carthage, in the East Texas piney woods, built a whole museum inside a fake movie theater — and it's all for one man, Tex Ritter, one of the most famous singing cowboys who ever rode across a screen. Step in and you'll find his boots, his shirts, his guitars and saddles, the old movie posters, the whole career laid out end to end. His cousin, Tommie Ritter Smith, is the one who founded it, tucked inside the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame — which also claims native son Jim Reeves and the singer Johnny Horton, better than fifty stars in all. Doors open Mondays through Saturdays, ten to four, ten dollars to get in. Every August, they throw a festival. A cowboy town that never stopped singing.

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History of Murvaul

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Murvaul. The name itself rolls off the tongue like the slow current of the creek it’s named for, Murvaul Creek, that eventually finds its way to the Sabine. You wouldn't think a place so quiet could have a story to tell, but it does. Look close, and you can still hear the echoes. This land, a little higher than the lake, has always been about hard work, about the land providing. Cattle still graze here, hay bales dot the fields. But it’s also a place that’s touched the wider world.

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Murvaul was a stop on the Texas and Gulf Railroad around 1900. The community is also situated on Farm to Market Road 10.

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Two Fathers Remembered on Highway Three Fifteen RoadyGoat

2021

State Highway Three Fifteen, from the western Panola County line to Carthage, is the Hamby-Webb Memorial Highway. It carries two names because it remembers two men. Kaleb Hamby was thirty four. Gabriel Webb, who went by Corey, was twenty eight. On December eleventh, twenty twenty one, the two were in a pickup truck on State Highway Three Fifteen in Panola County. According to a Texas House bill analysis, the driver of an eighteen wheeler failed to slow down and rear-ended their pickup, and both men were killed in a fiery crash. A Senate analysis places the crash at the intersection of State Highway Three Fifteen and County Road One Oh Six. Both men were husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. Each left behind a wife and three children. Constituent groups from the Panola County area proposed honoring them, and in twenty twenty five the Texas Legislature added their names to this stretch of road, in addition to any other designation. Drive it with care.

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Webb, Walter Prescott

1888

(April 3, 1888 - March 8, 1963) The world-renowned American historian Walter Prescott Webb was born near this site. His parents were Casner P. and Mary Elizabeth (Kyle) Webb. C. P. Webb farmed and taught school. The family moved in 1893 to the edge of central West Texas. There a startling new terrain spurred young Walter to study the influence of the frontier on American history. Alternately studying and teaching, Walter Webb earned his B. A. Degree in 1915, his M. A. in 1920, and his Ph. D. in 1932, all at the University of Texas. In 1918 he joined the history faculty of the University in Austin, where he taught for 45 years. Visiting lectureships in the U. S. and abroad included a term as Harmsworth professor at Oxford University in England. An inspiring teacher, he molded a generation of historians and scholarly writers. "The Great Plains," "The Texas Rangers," "Divided We Stand," "The Great Frontier," and his other books are works of splendid vision. Recipient of many honors and offices, he was the first southwesterner to serve as president of the American Historical Association. He married (1) Jane Oliphant, by whom he had one daughter, Mildred (Mrs. W. B. Bugg), and (2) Mrs. Terrell Maverick. He is buried in the Texas State Cemetery.

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Deputy Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway

2019

Honors Panola County Deputy Chris Dickerson, Army veteran and volunteer Carthage firefighter, killed December 31, 2019, during a 2 a.m. New Year's Eve traffic stop on FM-10. Honorary segment runs FM-10 from Loop 436 in Carthage to Gary.

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Tennessee Methodist Church

1857

This congregation traces its history to 1857, when a Union church was organized to serve Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian settlers in this area, many of whom migrated here from Tennessee. Named Mount Carmel, the church building was a one-room frame structure with log seats. It also served as a community schoolhouse. By 1871 the name was changed to Tennessee Church. About 1877 a two-story building was erected to replace the small church structure. The first floor was used for worship services, while the second story was used as a meeting hall by the local Woodmen of the World Lodge. The community school also continued to meet in the Union building. The three congregations finally divided in 1913, with the Presbyterians retaining the Union Church and the Methodist and Baptist congregations building new facilities. The Methodist Church building was a white frame structure, which continued to serve the members until it was replaced by a new brick building in 1952. A part of Shelby County history for well over a century, Tennessee Methodist Church continues to serve the community with a variety of programs.

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Neal, Margie Elizabeth

1926

Mary "Margie" Elizabeth Neal, first woman in the Texas Senate, was born near Clayton, Texas, on April 20, 1875. She was the second of four children of William Lafayette and Martha (Gholston) Neal. She lived in Carthage for most of her life. She attended but did not graduate from Sam Houston State Teachers College (now Sam Houston State University). After a short teaching career in Panola County and in Fort Worth she returned in 1903 to Carthage, where her father bought the Texas Mule , a weekly newspaper. She became editor and publisher of the paper, which she renamed the East Texas Register, for eight years. In 1912 she sold the paper and took up caring for her mother full time. Neal became involved in the woman suffrage movement and served as the secretary of the Panola County Equal Suffrage Association and as the Eighth Senatorial District chairman for the Texas Equal Suffrage Association 's campaigns. She is thought to be the first woman to register to vote in Panola County in 1918. That year she was also the first women member of the State Democratic Executive Committee. After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment prevented all states from restricting voting rights based on sex, Neal served in the League of Women Voters and was the only woman on the State Executive Committee of the Democratic party in 1920. She also was a delegate, along with Minnie Fisher Cunningham , to the Democratic national convention in San Francisco that year. Neal was the first woman member of the board of regents of the State Teachers Colleges of Texas (State Normal Schools) on which she served from 1921 to 1927. During her tenure, the board selected the site and president of the Stephen F. Austin Normal College (later Stephen F. Austin State University) in Nacogdoches. Neal's work on the board motivated her to run for the Texas Senate where she thought she could be more effective in pursuing education reform in the state. She announced her candidacy in March 1926 for the second senatorial district on a platform for better rural schools; increased education spending; a gasoline tax to fund an improved highway system; aid to farmers, labor, and capital; and fewer, better laws with improved enforcement. She won four of the five counties in her district and lost only her opponent's home county of Shelby. She served four consecutive terms. Working for prison reform, Neal served on a legislative inspection party that visited several prison farms in February 1927. She was chairperson of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. In 1928 Neal introduced the bill that established the State Board of Education (later replaced by the Texas Education Agency ), sponsored a bill that introduced public school physical education classes, and actively supported a bill that made the study of the state and national constitutions mandatory. She was instrumental in the passage of legislation that appropriated $1.6 million, the largest amount of funding for rural education in Texas at the time, for each of the next two academic years. Neal worked for higher standards for teacher certification while serving on the Senate Committee on Education Affairs, on which she served as vice-chair in 1927 and chair from 1929 to 1933. She also pushed the legislature to adopt an official state song and organized committee hearings in all senatorial districts. As a result, the Texas legislature adopted "Texas, Our Texas" as state song in May 1929. In 1929 she became the first woman to serve as Senate president pro tem (ad interim, elected at close of session) in Texas. She filled that roll again in 1933. In 1930 Neal ran unopposed and was reelected to the Texas Senate. She spent much of her next term battling Governor Ross Sterling , who called a 1931 special session of the state legislature to allow the state commissioners for the General Land Office and the Railroad Commission to contract or lease out the bed of the Sabine River for oil exploration and drilling. Most of the

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Knight, Raymond Lee

1945

Raymond Lee Knight, Medal of Honor recipient, was born in Timpson, Texas, on July 15, 1922. His family later moved to Houston, where he graduated from John Reagan High School in 1940. He entered the United States Army Air Corps at Houston in October 1942 and received his pilot's wings and commission at Harding Field, Louisiana, in April 1944. After further training in the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber, 2d Lt. Knight was assigned to the 350th Fighter Group, Twelfth Air Force, in Northern Italy, where he completed eighty-two combat missions. During his first year of combat he won the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Purple Hearts, and the Air Medal with five oak-leaf clusters. His most notable exploits, however, came in action against heavily defended German airdromes at Ghedi and Bergamo, Italy, in April 1945. On the morning of April 24 he led two other pilots, each flying a single-engine P-47 Thunderbolt, against the heavily defended airdrome at Ghedi. He ordered the other aircraft to stay aloft while he descended to low altitude through heavy antiaircraft fire and located eight German aircraft under heavy camouflage. After rejoining his flight, Knight led the attack and destroyed five of the enemy aircraft, while his teammates shot down two others. After returning to base he volunteered to lead a reconnaissance mission of three other aircraft to the airbase at Bergamo. He ordered his flight to remain out of range of enemy guns while he flew through the fire at low level. Although his Thunderbolt was badly damaged by intense ground fire he observed a squadron of enemy aircraft, heavily camouflaged, and led his flight to the attack. After this strafing, he made ten more passes over the field, and although hit by enemy fire twice more he destroyed six heavily loaded twin-engine aircraft and enemy fighters. He safely returned his damaged aircraft to base. He returned to Bergamo the next morning, April 25, 1945, with a flight of three and attacked an aircraft on the runway. Three more twin-engine aircraft were destroyed. His plane was heavily damaged and virtually unflyable, but he chose to attempt to return the valuable equipment to base for repair. He crashed in the Appennini Mountains and was killed. His gallant action eliminated enemy aircraft that were set to attack the Allied forces in their attempt to establish the first firm bridgehead across the Po River. He personally destroyed fourteen grounded enemy aircraft and led attacks that wrecked ten others. The Medal of Honor was presented to his widow, Johnnie Lee Knight, and his 2½-year-old-son on the stage at Reagan High School, where Raymond and Johnnie had graduated five years earlier. His remains were buried in Woodlawn Garden of Memories in 1949 and reburied in the Houston National Cemetery in a special section for Medal of Honor recipients on April 25, 1992.

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Rowe, James

1836

James Rowe, San Jacinto veteran, state legislator, and tanner, was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, on March 17, 1811. He was the son of Joseph and Nancy Ann (Murrow) Rowe. Rowe immigrated to Texas in 1834 and was a settler in the colony founded by Lorenzo de Zavala . On July 24, 1835, Rowe received a land grant of 1,085 acres from the Mexican government. He married Myra Miry Tippett on August 18, 1835. This couple had as many as nine or more children. Following news of the fall of the Alamo in March 1836, Rowe was elected first lieutenant under Capt. William Kimbrough , Second Regiment Volunteers, Eighth Infantry Company, which mobilized against the Mexican army. Rowe saw action with this unit at the battle of San Jacinto the following month. Rowe was living in San Augustine County by the late 1830s and, as a married man at the time of Texas independence, received a headright certificate for a league and labor of land in 1838. The property was surveyed in Shelby County in February 1838. As a reward for his service at San Jacinto, he received 640 acres of land in 1847. When Panola County was formed in 1846, Rowe was appointed as a commissioner to establish the county seat, which was eventually settled upon as present-day Carthage. In addition to his extensive landholdings, Rowe worked as a tanner. He was also a Mason. From November 3, 1851, to November 7, 1853, Rowe represented Panola County in the House of the Fourth Texas Legislature. He served on the Claims and Accounts Committee and the Engrossed Bills Committee. In 1856 he donated land to establish the Old Center Cemetery in Old Center, Panola County. On December 2, 1868, Rowe died and was buried at this cemetery. A Texas Historical Marker was erected in his honor in 1977.

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Everything Near Murvaul

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

Murvaul, TX
Murvaul. The name itself rolls off the tongue like the slow current of the creek it’s named for, Murvaul Creek, that eventually finds its way to the Sabine. You wouldn't think a place so quiet could have a story to…
Deputy Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
Honors Panola County Deputy Chris Dickerson, Army veteran and volunteer Carthage firefighter, killed December 31, 2019, during a 2 a.m. New Year's Eve traffic stop on FM-10. Honorary segment runs FM-10 from Loop 436 in…
Tennessee Methodist Church · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
This congregation traces its history to 1857, when a Union church was organized to serve Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian settlers in this area, many of whom migrated here from Tennessee. Named Mount Carmel, the…
Tennessee Presbyterian Church · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Tennessee Presbyterian Church. Organized in 1857, this church was originally known as Mount Carmel. It was the first Presbyterian congregation established in Shelby County. A one-room log cabin…
Webb, Walter Prescott · 4.4 mi · Historical Marker
(April 3, 1888 - March 8, 1963) The world-renowned American historian Walter Prescott Webb was born near this site. His parents were Casner P. and Mary Elizabeth (Kyle) Webb. C. P. Webb farmed and taught school. The…
Cedar Grove Baptist Church · 4.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through the area where settlers established a community called Snap after the Civil War. In 1905, members of Six Mile Church organized the Baptist Church of Christ at Old Six Mile Church, which later…
Deputy Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway · 4.6 mi · Historical Marker
Farm to Market Road Ten in Panola County is the Deputy Sheriff Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway. William Christopher Dickerson, known as Chris, was a United States Army veteran who served eight years with the Panola…
Church Bethel · 6.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Church Bethel, organized back in September of 1843 by Reverend Isaac Reed. The congregation originally met two miles northwest of here before moving to this spot in 1874. The original…
Two Fathers Remembered on Highway Three Fifteen · 6.1 mi
State Highway Three Fifteen, from the western Panola County line to Carthage, is the Hamby-Webb Memorial Highway. It carries two names because it remembers two men. Kaleb Hamby was thirty four. Gabriel Webb, who went by…
Antioch Cemetery · 8.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Antioch Cemetery near Carthage. The oldest tombstone here dates back to 1849, though the land wasn't officially set aside until 1875. Many early Panola County families like the Millers, Holmes, and…
The Friendly Undertaker and the Widow in the Freezer · 8.6 mi
The story that made Carthage a modern legend is a bizarre one. In the 1990s, the town's assistant funeral director was a man named Bernie Tiede. He was beloved—he sang in the church choir, directed community theater,…
Engineering an Energy Capital · 8.6 mi
As you drive around Carthage, you're traveling across a massive, invisible machine. This is the Carthage Gas Field, one of the largest natural gas deposits in the United States. Its discovery was geology, but its…

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East Texas's Grand Ole Opry · 8.6 mi
Carthage may be the 'Gas Capital,' but for music lovers, it’s the capital of classic Texas country. This area produced two monumental talents: Tex Ritter and Jim Reeves. Tex Ritter was the quintessential singing cowboy…
The Old Panola County Jail · 8.6 mi
If you're near the courthouse square, you might notice an imposing brick building that looks like a small fortress. That's the old Panola County Jail, and it's been standing since 1891. J. N. Carnes designed it: two…
UIL 4A Football State Champions — 7 titles · 8.8 mi
Carthage High School (Carthage, TX): Most recent: 49-21 over West Orange-Stark · 2025 4A Division 2 final.
Neal, Margie Elizabeth · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
Mary "Margie" Elizabeth Neal, first woman in the Texas Senate, was born near Clayton, Texas, on April 20, 1875. She was the second of four children of William Lafayette and Martha (Gholston) Neal. She lived in Carthage…
Rowe, James · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
James Rowe, San Jacinto veteran, state legislator, and tanner, was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, on March 17, 1811. He was the son of Joseph and Nancy Ann (Murrow) Rowe. Rowe immigrated to Texas in 1834 and…
Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Carthage, Texas, right now, and you're passing by a shrine to Texas music history. <break time="400ms"/> It's the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum. <break time="400ms"/>…
Anderson, Hannah English Payne · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, near Carthage. Right here, in what is now Panola County, Hannah English Payne Anderson made her mark. She moved to Texas in 1825, eventually receiving a large land grant. But her…
Panola College · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Carthage, the county seat of Panola County. Right here, a college was born out of the post-World War II boom, fueled by returning veterans and the GI Bill. It started as Panola County Junior…
Carthage, TX · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Carthage, the county seat of Panola County. This town's story really starts back in 1846, when Texas decided to carve out this county. The first temporary county seat was a place called Pulaski,…
Collins, Jasper · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, near Carthage, where Jasper Collins was born back in 1870. He was a lawyer, a newspaper editor, and even served a term in the Texas legislature representing this very county. But…
Holland, Devereaux Dunlap · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, the heart of East Texas, where Devereaux Dunlap Holland built a life and a fortune. He arrived in Texas in the 1840s, settling in Carthage by 1850. Holland was a prosperous farmer…
Pollard, Claude · 8.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, and right here in Carthage, a prominent lawyer named Claude Pollard got his start. Born in 1874, Pollard was admitted to the bar in 1895 and quickly rose through the ranks, serving…
First Baptist Church of Carthage · 8.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First Baptist Church of Carthage. Organized in April 1858 with Reverend J. H. Whitmore as its first pastor, the congregation disbanded during the Civil War. It was reorganized in 1867…
Carthage - 2025 Texas 4A Division II state football champion · 8.9 mi · Sports News
You're near Carthage High School in Carthage. Last December, they took down West Orange-Stark forty-nine to twenty-one to win the Texas 4A Division II state football championship. They wear that crown until this…
Central Baptist Church · 9.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Central Baptist Church in Carthage. Organized in 1901 with 17 members, it grew over the decades, building its first sanctuary in 1911 and a larger one in 1949. The church has sponsored missions and…
First Christian Church of Carthage · 9.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the First Christian Church of Carthage. Gospel meetings in the late 1880s led to its organization, with a lot deeded in 1890 and a building finished the next year. A new sanctuary opened in 1947…
The Giant Under Carthage · 9.1 mi
Beneath Carthage lies one of North America's great natural-gas fields. Gas was first struck here in 1936, when drillers tapped the Pettit formation about 6,000 feet down. Real production waited until 1944, when the…
Tex Ritter · 9.1 mi
Deep in the East Texas piney woods, Panola County put a singing cowboy on a Hollywood horse. Tex Ritter grew up on a farm right here, born in 1905 — and he learned his cowboy songs not out on the range but in a…
Tex Ritter Museum at the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame · 9.1 mi
Carthage, in the East Texas piney woods, built a whole museum inside a fake movie theater — and it's all for one man, Tex Ritter, one of the most famous singing cowboys who ever rode across a screen. Step in and you'll…
Carthage, TX · 9.1 mi
Carthage, Texas, has a rich history that began in 1847, two years after Texas joined the United States. During the Civil War, many from Carthage and Panola County fought as Confederate soldiers, while African-American…
How Carthage Got Its Name · 9.1 mi
Panola County was created in 1846 from parts of Shelby and Harrison counties, and a settlement called Pulaski, on the east bank of the Sabine River, served as its first temporary seat. In 1848 commissioners chose a spot…
Carthage Book Club · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Carthage, and right here is the site of a community-building powerhouse: the Carthage Book Club. Founded in 1907 by twelve local women, including Margie Neal – who would later become Texas's first…
Reeves-McMillan Cemetery · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Panola County, where the Reeves-McMillan Cemetery stands as a chronicle of local history. It began as a burial place for the McMillan family and friends in the late 1830s, with the first headstone…
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, founded in 1871 by five charter members. The original sanctuary was built in 1876 on land donated for the church and its cemetery. The current church…
Ebenezer United Methodist Church · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Ebenezer United Methodist Church. This congregation was organized nearby in 1843, predating Panola County itself. In 1872, land was deeded here for the church, a school, and a cemetery,…
First United Methodist Church of Carthage · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First United Methodist Church of Carthage. Organized in 1855, this congregation held its first services in the Masonic Hall and bought this property in 1859. Their first frame church…
2023 UIL 2A Division 1 Football State Champions · 9.2 mi
Timpson School (Timpson, TX): Most recent: 49-7 over Tolar · 2023 2A Division 1 final.
Knight, Raymond Lee · 9.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Raymond Lee Knight, Medal of Honor recipient, was born in Timpson, Texas, on July 15, 1922. His family later moved to Houston, where he graduated from John Reagan High School in 1940. He entered the United States Army…
Neal, Margie · 9.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Carthage, and right here is the hometown of Margie Neal, a true Texas trailblazer. Born in 1875, she started as a teacher, but by 1904, she owned the East Texas Register newspaper. Neal was a…
Anderson, Jonathan · 9.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Carthage, and right here is a spot named for Jonathan Anderson, a man who saw Texas history unfold. Born in Kentucky, he came to Texas when it was still part of Mexico. He fought for Texas…
George Washington Green · 9.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through the heart of what was once the Bobo community, established on land owned by George Washington Green. He arrived in Texas in 1878, and by 1885, he was buying up land along the new Houston East &…
Timpson · 9.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Timpson, a town that sprang to life in 1885, thanks to the railroad. Paul Bremond and investors planned a line from Houston to Shreveport, and a railroad official named Paul C. Timpson laid out…
Holland Quarters Cemetery · 9.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Holland Quarters Cemetery, a place with deep roots in Panola County history. After the Civil War, Spearman Holland deeded this land to former slaves, creating a vital community hub. It wasn't just a…
Panola Watchman · 9.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Carthage, and right here is the birthplace of a Texas newspaper that kept folks informed for over a century. The Panola Watchman rolled off the press for the first time on July 2, 1873, thanks to…
Panola County Jail, Old · 9.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Old Panola County Jail, a building that stood guard over Carthage for over sixty years. Completed in 1891, this two-story brick structure was designed by J. N. Carnes with a striking Italianate…
Anderson Cemetery · 9.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Anderson Cemetery. ANDERSON CEMETERY SITUATED ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF CARTHAGE ON A HILL SHADED BY LARGE TREES, ANDERSON CEMETERY IS THE BURIAL PLACE FOR MANY OF PANOLA COUNTY’S EARLY…
Mount Zion C. M. E. Church · 9.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Carthage, and just off the road is Mount Zion C. M. E. Church. This congregation has roots stretching back to November 2, 1870, when it was founded by Methodist Bishop Enoch M. Marvin and five…
Woods Methodist Church · 9.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Woods, Texas, where the Woods Methodist Church stands. Organized before 1858 as Concord Methodist, the present site was deeded in 1876, and this building was erected by the community that winter. The…
Woods New Hope Baptist Church · 9.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through the historic Woods community near Tenaha. In 1855, residents established a Baptist church here, initially sharing a building with Methodists and a schoolhouse. The congregation built its own…
Beauchamp, Joseph Benedict · 9.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the resting place of Joseph Benedict Beauchamp, a soldier who fought for Texas's independence. Born in Kentucky in 1814, Beauchamp came to Texas and served in the Army of Texas in 1835. He even…
A Star in the Window, a Marker by the Road · 10.1 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…
Allison Chapel United Methodist Church · 10.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Allison Chapel United Methodist Church. Reverend Littleton Fowler is believed to have organized this congregation between 1837 and 1839. The church was originally named Bethesda, but…
Ritter, Woodward Maurice [Tex] · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, the birthplace of Woodward Maurice Ritter, better known as the legendary Tex Ritter. Born right here in Murvaul in 1905, Tex became the quintessential singing cowboy. He honed his…
Moorman, Charles Watt · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Watt Moorman, a leader in the Regulator-Moderator War , son of Charles Hancock and Sophia (Maghee) Moorman, was born in Huntsville, Alabama, around 1817. His parents settled in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Columbus,…
Rosser, Thomas Lafayette · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, Texas, and right here is where a young Thomas Lafayette Rosser made his mark. Born in Virginia in 1836, he led his family's wagon train to this very county when he was just…
Bethany, TX (Panola County) · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Bethany is on the Louisiana state line and U.S. Highway 79 twenty-two miles northeast of Carthage in northeastern Panola County. The site was first settled around 1840. The community, which grew up as a stopping point…
Bullock, Uriah Irwin · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Uriah Irwin Bullock, soldier, was born in Georgia in 1808, the son of Batson and Comfort (Turner) Bullock. In 1835 Bullock was living in Macon, Georgia; he helped organize the Georgia Battalion for the Texas Revolution…
Gourdneck, TX (Panola County) · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Gourdneck is a small rural community located near Toledo Bend Reservoir in far southeastern Panola County. This early settlement had begun by the 1830s and provided an important stop for travelers immigrating into East…
Allison, John · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, Texas, and right here is the origin of its name. Judge John Allison, who'd moved here from Mississippi, became the first chief justice of this new county in 1846. He chose the name…
De Berry, Alfred Wesley · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, Texas, where Alfred Wesley De Berry, a lawyer and politician, raised a unique Confederate cavalry unit. Known as the Texas Lancers, this company was officially called into service…
Panola County · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, right on the border with Louisiana. This area was a hotbed of territorial disputes for decades. Back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1806</say-as>, after the U.S. bought…
Fair Play, TX · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Fair Play, a farming community at the junction of U.S. Highway 79 and Farm roads 124 and 1251, eleven miles west of Carthage in western Panola County, is one of the oldest settlements in the area. The site occupies part…
Gary, TX · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Gary is on Farm Road 10 ten miles south of Carthage in southwest Panola County. About 1844 or 1845 the first families began to move into the area. J. H. Thomas arrived first and built a home that was a longtime…
Long Branch, TX (Panola County) · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, not far from Carthage, heading southwest on Farm Road 348. You're passing through what was once Long Branch. It was named for a sandy arm of the Murvaul Bayou and established before…
Clayton, TX · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Clayton, at the junction of State Highway 315 and Farm Road 1970, sixteen miles southwest of Carthage in southwestern Panola County, was first settled around 1845 by Jacob Cariker, a native of Georgia. Cariker built a…
Deadwood, TX · 10.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
Deadwood, previously known as Linus, is on Farm Road 2517 some ten miles east of Carthage in eastern Panola County. The area was first settled in 1837 by Adam LaGrone and his family, who built a homestead not far from…
The "Rabbit" Railroad · 10.7 mi
The railroad that made Timpson had a nickname: the Rabbit. It was the Houston, East and West Texas — a three-foot narrow-gauge line whose best-known locomotive earned the name by the sheer number of times it jumped…
The Ancient Swamps That Power Texas · 10.7 mi
As you drive near Timpson, you're passing over an enormous store of energy: lignite coal. This isn't the hard black coal of Appalachia. It's soft and brownish, formed from vegetation that piled up in coastal swamps…
Timpson, TX · 10.7 mi
Lake Timpson, a reservoir in Shelby County, is a notable natural feature near Timpson. With coordinates at 31.8443, -94.4291 and an altitude of 318 feet, the lake is a significant part of the area's natural landscape.…
The Art of the Hog Call · 10.7 mi
If you're in Timpson in late June, the whole town is out in the street. That's Timpson Frontier Days, dreamed up in 1962 by Ben Parnell and Ed Hooper to put the pioneer years back in front of people, and it has run…
Caledonia Methodist Church · 10.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Mount Enterprise, near the Caledonia community. This marker commemorates the Caledonia Methodist Church, which began organizing in the late 1860s. Dr. Lovick P. Garrison, John Barham, and J. Harvy…
Buena Vista Cemetery · 10.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Buena Vista Cemetery, serving a community organized way back in 1848. Joseph Penn Burns donated the land, and the earliest marked grave is from 1851. The cemetery is still a landmark for the…
Pisgah United Methodist Church · 10.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Pisgah United Methodist Church. Organized in 1848, early services were held in homes or at summer camp meetings. A sanctuary was built at the Old Camp Ground site, serving the…
The Regulator-Moderator War · 11.5 mi
The quiet landscape you're passing through was once the battleground for one of America's largest and most violent feuds. Before Tenaha was a town, this corner of Shelby County descended into chaos during the…
The Highway Forfeiture Scandal · 11.5 mi
The highways passing through Tenaha, U.S. 59 and 84, became the center of a national controversy in the late 2000s. A practice known as civil asset forfeiture turned into what critics called 'policing for profit.' Local…
Tenaha, TX · 11.5 mi
Tenaha, a town in Shelby County, Texas, has a history marked by a significant legal event. In 2009, the town became embroiled in a class action lawsuit due to allegations that local police were improperly seizing cash,…
The Engineering of 'The Rabbit' · 11.5 mi
As you drive through Tenaha, you'll cross a set of railroad tracks that are the very reason this town exists. But this wasn't just any railroad. This was the Houston, East and West Texas Railway, built in the 1880s and…
Folklore: 'What is a Tenaha?' · 11.5 mi
Say the name out loud and you're already halfway into the folklore: Tenaha. It comes from Tenehaw, the name the Mexican government gave this district back in 1824, before anybody called it Shelby County. But the reason…
Johnston, Franklin Lewis · 11.6 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, not far from Tenaha, where Franklin Lewis Johnston made his home. After serving as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, Johnston returned to Shelby County to practice law. But his…
Tenaha, TX · 11.6 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Tenaha, Texas, a town born from the railroad boom. Back in 1885, the Houston, East and West Texas Railway was pushing through Shelby County, and this spot was chosen as a crucial shipping point.…
First United Methodist Church of Tenaha · 11.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Tenaha, the site of the First United Methodist Church. This congregation was established in 1886 by Methodists from nearby communities, helping to build this railhead town. They constructed their…
Reeves, Jim · 12.1 mi
You're driving through Carthage, Panola County, the birthplace of a country music legend: Jim Reeves. Born in Galloway in 1924, Reeves first chased a dream on the baseball diamond, playing for the St. Louis Cardinals'…
Waldrop Cemetery · 12.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Waldrop Cemetery, which local history says began in 1872. Jemima Guest Gentry died that year and was buried here, at her family's request, on land granted by landowners James C. and Lucretia Harris…
Youngblood, Isaac R. · 12.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Panola County, near Beckville. Keep an eye out for the site associated with Isaac R. Youngblood, a pioneer who arrived in Texas before 1846. Youngblood wasn't just a settler; he helped lay out…
Buckner Cemetery · 12.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Buckner Cemetery near Pinehill. This burial ground tells the story of a family that settled here before 1850, arriving from Georgia. John S. Buckner was laid to rest here in 1870, but it was his…
Ramah Cemetery · 12.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through the heart of the Ramah community, a place that started as a humble homestead in the early 1870s. William Tell Pou and his wife Mollie were the first settlers here. They helped found Ramah Baptist…
Respess Family and Respess Creek · 12.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Panola County, near Carthage, where the stream you're crossing is known as Respess Creek. In the 1870s, Richard Ormand Respess and his wife Nannie Lois Williams settled here. Richard taught at the…
Rehobeth United Methodist Church · 12.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Rehobeth United Methodist Church near Carthage. Services first began here in 1878, and a sanctuary was built on land donated by the Biggs family. That original structure served the congregation for a…
Rowe, James · 13.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Panola County, passing the final resting place of James Rowe. He arrived in Texas from North Carolina, ready to fight for its independence in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1836</say-as>.…
Old Center Cemetery · 13.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Old Center Cemetery, a final resting place that's been serving this community since 1856. That's when James Rowe, a pioneer and veteran of the Texas War for Independence, donated the first land. His…
Dennard Home · 13.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Dennard Home near Mt. Enterprise, a beautiful example of East Texas vernacular architecture. Augustus "Gus" Dennard, who came to Texas in 1883, was a true community leader. He was a merchant, a…
Patrick, John T. C. · 13.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Patrick Community, right here in Henderson. Back in 1854, John Campbell Patrick, his wife Eleanor, and their five children packed up and moved here from South Carolina. Patrick bought…
Patrick Community · 13.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Rusk County, passing the site of what was once the Patrick Community. It all started in 1854 when the Patrick brothers, James, John, and Minor, led Presbyterian families from South Carolina to…
Miles Cemetery · 13.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Miles Cemetery, the last physical trace of the old Lawsonville community. This place started as a family plot for the Miles family, but it grew to include the burials of former slaves and other…
Shady Grove Cemetery · 13.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Shady Grove Cemetery. Shady Grove Cemetery Shady Grove Cemetery began with the interment of Anna Sparks Ramsey in September 1878, 13 months before a two-acre tract of land here was deeded as a…
New Prospect Cemetery · 13.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past what was once the Scruggs community, where this cemetery began in 1870. It started with a donation of land for a church and graveyard by homesteaders Robert Alexander Craig and Martha Jane Freeland.…
Brachfield · 14.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be a community known by many names, right here near Minden. It started as Gibsontown, then became Murval when a post office opened way back in 1853. By the 1890s, folks were calling…
Shiloh Cemetery · 14.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Shiloh Cemetery, a resting place for Rusk County pioneers, community leaders, and war veterans. Its story begins in 1853 with the burial of Maranda Gilbreath. Four years later, Josiah Johnson…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Beckville (Beckville) · 14.3 mi
Beckville (Beckville, TX) placed on the 2A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Wesdon Harris (2 HR).
Miszner, Joseph Charles · 14.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Mt. Enterprise, Rusk County, and you might be passing the former home of Joseph Charles Miszner. Born in Prussia in 1822, Miszner was a student of the legendary composer Franz Liszt and a graduate…
Booty, Augustus James · 14.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, not far from Beckville, where Augustus 'Gus' Booty once taught school and later served as a legislator. But before all that, Gus Booty was a soldier. In 1861, he joined the Tenth Texas…
Beckville, TX · 14.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Panola County, and right here is Beckville. It's a town that owes its very existence to a bit of a standoff. Back in 1886, the railroad decided to build right through this area. But the folks in…
Beckville, TX · 14.5 mi
Beckville, Texas, a community nestled in the piney woods of East Texas, has seen its share of notable individuals pass through its streets and leave their mark. Perhaps most prominently, the world of country music has a…
Priced themselves out of the railroad · 14.5 mi
If you could travel back to 1885, Beckville wouldn't be here. It would be a mile north of here — a farming community already named for Matthew W. Beck, who settled the area around 1850. Then in 1886 the future came…
The Singing Cowboy's East Texas Roots · 14.5 mi
As you drive through this part of Panola County, you’re in the homeland of a true American icon: Tex Ritter. Born just down the road in Murvaul in 1905, the man who would become one of Hollywood’s most famous singing…
The Iron Compass: Engineering a Town · 14.5 mi
Beckville is a clean example of how a rail line, not a town plan, decides where a community sits. When the Texas, Sabine Valley and Northwestern Railway pushed through Panola County in 1886, its surveyors were solving…
Black Gold and Brown Coal · 14.5 mi
The land around Beckville holds a two-part story of energy, and it doesn't run the way you'd guess. The first chapter is black gold. In October of 1936 drillers hit gas and condensate at five thousand six hundred and…
Beckville United Methodist Church · 14.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Beckville, the site of the United Methodist Church. Methodist services first began in this area back in 1844, served by the San Augustine Circuit. The congregation built its first sanctuary in…
First Baptist Church of Beckville · 14.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First Baptist Church of Beckville. Organized in 1886 as Mount Pleasant Baptist Church with 12 members, they soon built a sanctuary on donated land. The congregation has been known as…
Bridges Cemetery · 14.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Bridges Cemetery, a final resting place that began with a pioneer family's promise. Eli Buckner left land for public burial in 1861 after his wife Eliza died here. Later, Reverend Bridges bought the…
Sugar Hill Cemetery · 14.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Sugar Hill Cemetery, a final resting place for folks since the mid-1800s. It's believed that Elijah Wyatt, who came to Texas in 1838, is buried here, with his son-in-law reserving land for the…
Liberty Missionary Baptist Church · 14.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Liberty Missionary Baptist Church. Organized in the Sugar Hill community in 1866, it was accepted into the Mt. Zion Baptist Association just two years later. The congregation grew…
Richard Brown · 15.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the story of Richard Brown, a Republic of Texas soldier who saw action in 1836. He later joined the Mier Expedition in 1842, was captured, and escaped a firing squad by drawing a white bean, enduring…
Pine Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church · 15.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Pine Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, organized around 1850 by the Rev. Archibald Watkins. The congregation first met in a log cabin near Martin's Creek. This building was…
Blossom Hill United Methodist Church · 15.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Blossom Hill United Methodist Church, established in 1879. It was the first church in the Chapman community, originally named Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church. For many years, this church…
The Billion-Barrel Geological Trap · 15.4 mi
The oil that made this corner of East Texas rich comes down to a perfect geological accident about 3,600 feet down, up the road northwest of here. Think of it like a tilted bowl. Millions of years ago a porous layer of…
Mount Enterprise, TX · 15.4 mi
Mount Enterprise's history is deeply rooted in the Vinzent brothers' business enterprise and the town's iron ore deposits. The Vinzents, who settled the area in 1832, named the town for a small elevation and their own…
Welch Cemetery · 15.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Welch Cemetery. The first burial here was Anna Welch in 1877, who chose this hillside for her final resting place. Her son, Civil War veteran Andrew Jackson Welch, later formally designated it a…
Garrison, TX · 15.6 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Garrison, Texas, a town that owes its existence to a railroad and a shrewd land deal. Back in 1884, Captain J. H. Garrison bought up land along the Attoyac River, right in the path of the Houston,…
Campground Cemetery · 15.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Campground Cemetery near Mt. Enterprise. This spot has a dual history. In 1857, thirteen local Baptist churches organized the Mt. Zion Baptist Association right here. But it's the Civil War…
Hotel Wiley · 15.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Hotel Wiley in Garrison, a bustling hub around the turn of the 20th century. Owned by Mrs. S. A. 'Mattie' Wiley, this Queen Anne-style hotel welcomed railroad and telephone workers,…
Libby Community Cemetery · 15.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Libby Community Cemetery, once serving a town called Miller's Mill. The community chose the name Libby in 1898 for the postmaster's daughter. The first burial here is believed to be infant Bessie…
Arlam Baptist Church · 15.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Arlam Baptist Church, originally organized as Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church of Christ in August 1897. The congregation met in a schoolhouse before moving to the Arlam School in…
The Dashcam That Caught a Constable's Killers · 15.7 mi
The Constable Darrell Lunsford Memorial Highway is the part of U.S. Highway Fifty Nine in Garrison. Darrell Lunsford served eight years with the Nacogdoches County Constable's Office, Precinct Three. Around one twenty…
Spivey · 16.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Spivey, a town that sprang up thanks to the railroad. Founded by Civil War veteran James Jackson Spivey, the community really took off when the Houston East & West Texas Railroad built…
Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church & Cemetery · 16.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church. Back in 1867, Augustus Ferguson gave land for this church and a school. The congregation officially formed in 1868, with Reverend John Sparkman…
Sholar Cemetery · 16.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Sholar Cemetery, a place marked by a heartbreaking tragedy in the summer of 1854. Six cousins, all between the ages of one and ten, died here, likely from the same illness. It's a somber reminder…
Site of Truitt Community · 16.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through East Texas, near Joaquin. Look around for remnants of a community called Truitt, also known as Willow Grove. It sprang up around a store opened by James Truitt about 1840. Truitt wasn't just any…
Rock Hill United Methodist Church · 17.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Rock Hill United Methodist Church. Organized as a Baptist church in 1887, it affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1895 and moved to its current location in 1940. Circuit…
Hays, William C. · 17.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Minden, Texas, where William C. Hays lived a long and eventful life. Born in Kentucky in 1806, Hays enlisted for Texas independence in 1835, fighting bravely at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto…
Deadwood Cemetery · 17.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Deadwood Cemetery, the final resting place for early Panola County settlers. It began as a family burial ground in 1847 when Christeena LaGrone was laid to rest here. Though not officially a public…
Maple Grove Cemetery · 17.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Maple Grove Cemetery, which began in 1879 when the Rettig family buried their infant son here on their land. By 1883, it had become a community burial ground, and today it covers three acres with…
Riding the 'Rabbit' · 17.3 mi
The railroad that created Garrison was officially named the Houston, East and West Texas Railway, but locals had a much better name for it: the 'Rabbit.' In its early days, the line was a narrow-gauge railway, with its…
From Narrow to Standard: An Engineering Feat · 17.3 mi
The railroad that gave birth to Garrison was an engineering compromise. To save money and navigate the hilly East Texas terrain, the Houston, East and West Texas Railway was built as a narrow-gauge line, with tracks…
Garrison, TX · 17.3 mi
Garrison, Texas, might have been named after an early settler, Captain Zadock Bonner 'Zed' Garrison. Born on April 20, 1829, Captain Garrison served as a First Lieutenant in the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Volunteers…
Martin Cemetery · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Martin Cemetery, a place with roots stretching back to around 1833, when Daniel Martin and his family settled here. It's adjacent to the old Trammel's Trace. The oldest documented burial is from…
Grand Bluff Cemetery · 17.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving near the site of Grand Bluff Cemetery, once serving a bustling pioneer community and ferry crossing on the Sabine River. The earliest known burials here date back to 1838. Though the Grand Bluff…
King-Oates Cemetery · 17.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the King-Oates Cemetery, established around 1853. It was recognized as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2006.
Oates Cemetery · 17.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Oates Cemetery. OATES CEMETERY ESTABLISHED 1863 HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY – 2012
Strong, John and Mary Ann · 17.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Rusk County, passing the resting place of John and Mary Ann Strong. These Georgia natives arrived in Texas around 1849, becoming vital pioneer settlers in this eastern county. They didn't just…
Strong Cemetery · 17.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Strong Cemetery, originally established for the family of pioneer John Strong. The earliest marked grave here belongs to his grandson, John A. Young, who died in 1853. The cemetery was officially…
Hunt Cemetery · 17.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Rusk County, near Henderson. This is the Hunt Cemetery, set aside by Thomas Hunt, Sr. and his family when they arrived from Tennessee in 1851. The oldest marked grave is from 1856, though many…
Ross, William McDonald · 18.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Rusk County, near Mount Enterprise, where William McDonald Ross arrived in 1838. He wasn't just a farmer; Ross was a jack-of-all-trades for this new frontier. He practiced medicine, surveyed the…
Williams, Leonard G. · 18.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, perhaps near Mount Enterprise, and you're passing through the territory of Leonard G. Williams. Born in 1802, Williams was a soldier and an Indian agent who arrived in this region by…
Mount Enterprise, TX (Rusk County) · 18.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Rusk County, and right here is Mount Enterprise. This town owes its very existence to an 'iron mountain' – a hill rich with iron ore discovered by the Vinson brothers back in 1832. But Charles…
Gage, David Aaron · 18.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Rusk County, not far from Mount Enterprise, where David Aaron Gage settled in 1839. He came to Texas a veteran of the War of 1812 and a seasoned politician from Alabama. But here, he became a…
Ross, Griff Terry · 18.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through East Texas, near Mount Enterprise, the hometown of Dr. Griff Terry Ross. Born in 1920, Ross followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a physician. But his passion lay in science, specifically…
Birdwell, Allen · 18.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Rusk County, Texas, where Colonel Allen Birdwell made his home. Birdwell, a farmer and planter, served in the Fifth and Tenth Texas legislatures. He was an early investor in Texas railroads,…
Church Hill United Methodist Church · 18.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Church Hill United Methodist Church. This congregation organized way back in 1839 with the Rev. Claugh Waterfield as pastor. The church building itself went up in 1879, with about a…
Shady Grove Baptist Church · 18.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through the DeBerry area, passing the site of Shady Grove Baptist Church. Established by 1880, the congregation built its first wooden structure and later replaced it with a second frame building that…
Harmony Hill Cemetery · 19.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Harmony Hill Cemetery, where the oldest grave dates back to 1844. That's the resting place of J. W. Hall, marked by a large rock when the land was first donated by John W. Kuykendall in 1852. Over…
Milton Irish · 19.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the story of Milton Irish, a Maine native who came to Texas in 1835. He fought with Texas forces during the Revolution, including at the Siege of Bexar and the Battle of Coleto Creek. Captured at…
Tatum Cemetery · 19.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Tatum Cemetery, a resting place with roots stretching back to the Civil War. It began as a private family burial ground for Albert Tatum, a pioneer settler. His son William was the first interred…
Adams Cemetery · 19.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Logan, and just off the road is Adams Cemetery. Lorenzo H. Adams, a former constable and justice of the peace, donated this land in the 1880s after his young daughter Georgia Anne died. Her grave…

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