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Tennessee Colony is located off of Farm Road 321 fourteen miles northwest of Palestine in northwestern Anderson County.
Created by the Texas Legislature on March 24, 1846, Anderson County was named for former Republic of Texas Vice President Kenneth L. Anderson.
Bethel Cemetery. Originally part of a Mexican land grant awarded to Jose de Jesus Grande in 1828, land at this site was later granted to early area settler Henry Rampy.
Elkhart is at the intersection of State Highway 294 and U.S. Highway 287, eleven miles south of Palestine in southern Anderson County.
The Baptist Church of Elkhart owes its origin to the Cromwell family. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cromwell came to Elkhart in the early ’80’s from Kansas.
Fort Houston, once called Houston, was located of FM 1990 about 2 miles south of Palestine.
Frankston is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 175 and State Highway 155, near Lake Palestine and within a twenty-five-mile radius of Tyler, Jacksonville, Palestine, and Athens in far northeastern Anderson County.
Harmony Baptist Church. The community of Harmony began in 1855, when several families from South Carolina and Mississippi settled here and established homes and family farms.
Kickapoo was on Kickapoo Creek twenty miles northeast of Palestine and ten miles north of Neches in northeastern Anderson County.
Magnolia was on the Trinity River near the intersection of Farm Road 1990 and State Highway 294, ten miles southwest of Palestine in southwestern Anderson County.
Montalba is on State Highway 19 ten miles north of Palestine in north central Anderson County.
Mound Prairie was located eight miles north of Palestine at a site one mile west of present Highway 155 in Anderson County.
Palestine 1858. Palestine contains a population of 1200. The business of the town is confined to retail trade with the surrounding country
Anderson County, so proud of various achievements in a broad field of human endeavor, boasts of no single honor, perhaps, with more fervor than of the fact that the oldest Protestant Church in the state of Texas may be found within her boundaries.
Plentitude, also known as Plentitude Yard (and also appearing in some references as Plenitude), was a rural community in northern Anderson County located on Brushy Creek ten miles north of Palestine. Map location (above) is approximated.
Salmon, once called Byron Switch, is on the Missouri Pacific line, U.S. Highway 287, and State Highway 19, fourteen miles southeast of Palestine in southern Anderson County.
Slocum is at the intersection of Farm Road 2022 and State Highway 294, twelve miles southeast of Palestine in southeastern Anderson County.
Tucker is a rural community in southwestern Anderson County eight miles southwest of Palestine on the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the combined U.S. highways 84 and 79, two miles from the Trinity River.
Wild Cat Bluff was a small settlement in extreme northwestern Anderson County near the confluence of Wildcat Creek and the Trinity River.
Angelina County has has four county seats and five courthouses.
Burke. With the advent of the Houston East and West Texas Railroad, the town of Burke, eight miles west of Lufkin, sprang into existence, some six years ago.
Burke. With the advent of the Houston East and West Texas Railroad, the town of Burke, eight miles west of Lufkin, sprang into existence, some six years ago.
Cheeseland. In 1844 Jacob Ferguson Humphrey (d. 1882), a native of Wales, built a log cabin and stockade in this area.
Diboll. A sawmill established here in 1894 by T. L. L. Temple gave rise to a town that by 1900 contained a commissary, post office, churches, homes, and schools run by the Southern Pine Lumber Company.
Emporia. Emporia Lumber Company co-owners S. F. Carter and M. T. Jones purchased over 5,000 acres of land in south Angelina County and established a company town named Emporia in 1893.
Ewing. The boom town of Ewing stood for two decades on the west bank of the Angelina River. Named for plantation owner James A. Ewing, the town was located near a rail line and virgin hardwood forests.
Homer, the county seat of Angelina County [1888], is located in about the center of the county, some six miles east of Lufkin and is most pleasantly situated.
Site of the Town of Homer. Also known as Angelina, third county seat of Angelina County, 1858 – 1890. (6 mi. SE Lufkin, US Hwy. 69). – Historical Marker Text.
Hoshall. The Houston East and West Texas (HE&WT) Railroad came through Angelina County in 1882 and a community named Bitterweed Flat developed here.
Location: Hudson, TX 31° 19' 21.666" N, 94° 46' 41.7504" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Settlers attempted to form a townsite in this area in the 1880s, but it was not until the arrival of the railroad lines that it attracted a thriving population.
Jonesville. Site of the town of Jonesville, second county seat of Angelina County, August 22, 1854 - May 19, 1858. - Historical Marker Text. Marker located 12 mi. SE of Lufkin on US 69.
The town of Lufkin, is situated within the circle of a very fertile and productive country, at the junction of the H. E. & W.
Lufkin History 1888. The town of Lufkin, is situated within the circle of a very fertile and productive country, at the junction of the H. E. & W. Texas, and the K. & G. S. L.
Manning. The community of Manning grew up around the operations of the Carter-Kelley Lumber Company, established here about 1906.
Site of the town of Marion, known as early as 1828 as McNeill's Landing. In 1831 it consisted of over 200 buildings. First county seat of Angelina County, 1846 - 1854. - Historical Marker Text.
Twelve miles north of Lufkin, on the Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad, is Pollock.
Whitehouse Cemetery. According to local tradition, this cemetery may take its name from the 19th-century Cole family home, a structure whose whitewashed exterior stood out from the majority of other log houses and frame buildings in the area.
Aransas City, now a ghost town, was located on Live Oak Point in what was Refugio County but is now Aransas County.
Aransas County Courthouse – 1889. Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival style court house built by J. Riely Gordon.
Fulton, called Aransas City from 1888 until 1900, is on State Highway 35 and Aransas Bay just north of Rockport in central Aransas County.
Lamar, at the north end of the Copano Bay causeway on State Highway 35 and Farm Road 13 ten miles north of Rockport and forty miles north of Corpus Christi.
Rockport, the county seat of Aransas County, is on State Highway 35 on Live Oak Peninsula between Copano and Aransas bays, thirty miles northeast of Corpus Christi in the southern part of the county.
Location: Holliday, TX 33° 48' 58.356" N, 98° 41' 42.216" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Lakeside City, TX 32° 49' 20.46" N, 97° 29' 36.078" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location Megargel, TX 33° 27' 3.366" N, 98° 55' 28.2396" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location Scotland, TX 33° 39' 36.3708" N, 98° 28' 14.1924" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location Windthorst, TX 33° 34' 34.3776" N, 98° 26' 12.1884" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Claude, on U.S. Highway 287 in north central Armstrong County, is the county’s largest town.
Fairview is on Farm Road 1151 twelve miles west of Claude in western Armstrong County.
Goodnight is at the edge of the Llano Estacado on U.S. Highway 287 in northeastern Armstrong County.
History of the Gorin Community 1939. Gorin Community began its organization when the neighbors met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gorin to discuss the school problem.
Malden is located six miles southeast of Claude in northern Armstrong County.
Mount Pleasant is located on Highway 18, north of FM 2272 and east of Highway 207.
Paloduro was at one time known as Mulberry Flats (or Flat). It is the headquarters of the JA Ranch, is off Farm Road 2272 between the watershed of Mulberry Creek and the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River in southeastern Armstrong County.
Washburn is located on U.S. Highway 287 in the northwest corner of Armstrong County
Wayside, on Ranch Road 285 south of Palo Duro Canyon four miles east of the Randall county line and three miles north of the Swisher county line in the southwest corner of Armstrong County.
Early History of Bellville Methodist Church. The heritage of Bellville Methodist Church dates to 1822, when Thomas B. Bell came to Texas from Florida with Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists.
Bellville Concordia. (Name adopted in 1938) Singing society organized in home of Fritz Schlecht, at Piney (3.5 mi. E), 1860.
Sherwood Y. Reamos. Detailed to guard the baggage at Harrisburg April 21, 1836. Born in South Carolina, 1812; died in 1887.
Cat Springs. A pioneer German settlement founded in 1832 by members of the Amsler, Kleberg and Von Roeder families.
Frydek Catholic Cemetery. Czech immigrants began settling in this area in the 1850s. They named their new community Frydek after a town in their homeland.
Site of the first permanent German settlement in Texas, 1831. Founded by Friedrich Ernst, born at Varel, Oldenburg, Germany.
John Wesley Kenney. (1799-1865) One of great pioneer Methodist ministers of Texas. Pennsylvania-born, he began preaching at age 19.
First Czech Immigrants in Texas. People from Czechy began to come to America for liberty as early as 1633. First known Czech in Texas was Jiri Rybar (George Fisher), customs officer in Galveston in 1829.
Site of the town of New Ulm. First known as Duff’s Settlement in honor of James C. Duff to whom the land was granted in 1841.
Saint Paul Lutheran Church. Lutheran clergy served people in this area as early as 1886, but this congregation did not officially begin until 1890.
San Felipe de Austin 1935. San Felipe de Austin was founded in 1824 by Gen. Austin and the commissioner, Baron de Bastrop.
Founded in 1879 on the route of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad, Sealy was named for Galveston businessman and railroad president George Sealy (1835-1901).
James Bradford Pier. (Nov. 23, 1813-Feb. 5, 1888) A native of Circleville, Ohio, J. B. Pier came to Texas in 1835 with his wife, Lucy (Merry).
Wallis Cemetery. Also known as the Protestant Cemetery, this burial ground has served the Wallis community and surrounding area since the 1890s.
John Reichle General Merchandise (Welcome Store). Originally operated by the John Reichle Family, this store opened about 1890. Damaged by a storm about 1900, the original 2-story building was changed to its current 1-story configuration with asymmetrical front gables, a full-width porch, and exterior walls that are a combination of horizontal siding and vertical board and batten siding.
Location Muleshoe, TX 34° 13' 35.2848" N, 102° 43' 25.7736" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Bluff is on Wallace Creek and State Highway 16 nineteen miles northwest of Bandera in north central Bandera County.
Old Red Rock Cemetery. The town of Red Rock grew at the crossing of the Austin – Port Lavaca Stagecoach Road (now FM 812) and the Bastrop – Gonzales Trail (now CR 229). In 1892 the town moved one mile east to the newly-laid railroad.
Beeville is located on Poesta Creek at the intersection of U.S. Highway 181, State Highway 59, and the Southern Pacific Railroad, in central Bee County.
Bartlett. Settlers began moving to this area in the 1830s, when Texas was a republic, but the town of Bartlett was not established until the 1870s.
Cedron Cemetery and School. Settlement of northeastern Bosque County began in the 1850s, as people traveling west through the area were attracted to the fertile lands along Cedron Creek.
Clifton is at the junction of State Highway 6 and Farm Road 219, thirty-five miles northwest of Waco in southern Bosque County.
Cranfills Gap is at the intersection of State Highway 22 and Farm Road 219, forty-two miles northwest of Waco and fourteen miles southwest of Meridian in western Bosque County.
Pioneer area settler Joshua McCuistion donated land at this site for a Methodist chapel to serve the community of Hollis Prairie.
Iredell First United Methodist Church. In 1869, Methodists in the Iredell area began worshipping at Hester Schoolhouse, a building used by both Baptists and Methodists for services.
Meridian, the county seat of Bosque County,is located forty-seven miles northwest of Waco near the center of the county.
First United Methodist Church of Morgan. Organized in 1889, the Morgan Methodist Church first held worship services in the Baptist church building.
Norse is on Farm Road 182 forty miles west of Waco in southwestern Bosque County.
Rock Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The Rev. James B. Sadler (1828-1911), a self-educated former slave, started this black congregation in 1870 and helped establish a separate black Presbytery in 1876.
Steiner Baptist Church began in 1891 in the town of Fowler as Fowler Baptist Church.
Original Site of Valley Mills. A. H. Steagall and Dr. E. P. Booth purchased 300 acres of land on the north side of the Bosque River in 1868.
Walnut Springs is at the junction of State Highway 144 and Farm roads 927 and 203, 52 miles northwest of Waco in northern Bosque County.
Location Kurten, TX 30° 47' 13.6968" N, 96° 15' 50.8572" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location Millican, TX 30° 28' 6.7368" N, 96° 12' 8.8524" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Wixon Valley, TX 30° 45' 43.7004" N, 96° 19' 7.8636" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Alpine, once called Osborne and Murphyville, is located in a wide valley in the foothills of the Davis Mountains in northwest Brewster County. It was once part of Presidio County.
Boquillas, also known as Rio Grande Village, was on the Rio Grande eighteen miles southeast of Panther Junction in Big Bend National Park in southeastern Brewster County.
Brewster County has had only one courthouse. Brewster County Courthouse 1887, Alpine.
Hot Springs is in Big Bend National Park where Tornillo Creek enters the Rio Grande, in the southern tip of Brewster County some four miles upriver from Boquillas Canyon and the Mexican village of Boquillas.
