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18101 Abernathy House Southwest corner of Quitman and Texas Streets David Harper Abernathy was born in 1858 in Arkansas. He moved with his family to Pittsburg in 1864. After learning business in Nashville, Tennessee, ...

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9787 Bolton Cemetery FM 993, 3 mi. S. of Pittsburg Ebenezer (Ebb) and Martha Bolton settled in this area in the 1850s. They established an extensive plantation and owned a number of slaves before ...

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9789 Camp County about 3.5 mi. N of Pittsburg on US 271 Formed from Upshur County. Created April 6, 1874; organized June 20, 1874. Named in honor of John Lafayette Camp (1828-1891), soldier, lawyer, statesman, ... 13073 Camp County Courthouse 126 Church Street The Texas Legislature created Camp County from the northern part of Upshur County in 1874, and voters chose Pittsburg as their county seat. The county ... 23549 Carroll Hall Shelby Leesburg Cemetery, SW corner FM 1519 and SH 11 Camp County native Carroll Shelby became world-renowned as a sports car driver and designer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was born in Leesburg ... 9790 Center Point Community Center Point community, at Center Point Baptist Church on FM 2057, 10 mi. SE of Pittsburg In 1865 black Freedmen began this community. The Center Point Baptist Church was organized in 1873. The Industrial Union was chartered in 1889 to ... 9791 Center Point School Center Point community, facing CR 4244 (Center Point Road) Center Point began as a Freedmen's community about 1865-70. The Willie Johnson family were the first settlers and were soon joined by other families. ... 9792 Cherokee Trace FM 21, W side 60 feet N of CR 2401, S of Lake Bob Sandlin This Indian trading route to Arkansas and Oklahoma was laid out by Cherokees. A tribesman with a keen sense of direction pulled buffalo hides behind ... 9788 Colonel John L. Camp about 3.5 mi. N of Pittsburg on US 271 (1828-1891) Came to Texas from Alabama in 1849. Practiced law and taught school in Gilmer. In Civil War, organized and was elected captain of Co. ... 9793 Cotton Belt Depot 170 Marshall St. The narrow gauge Texas & St. Louis (Cotton Belt) Railroad arrived in Pittsburg in 1880. William Harrison Pitts, founder of Pittsburg, had donated ...

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16472 Ebenezer Cemetery 5513 FM 557 Ebenezer Cemetery was officially established when Israel B. Rape deeded property for the cemetery in 1857. However, Rape and his wife Sarah are buried ...

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13180 Ferndale Club Ferndale Fishing Club, CR 3322, W side 0.5 mi. S of FM 1519 It was the vision of Leesburg physician and banker J.B. Florence that led to creation of the Ferndale Club, once called Fern, Fin and Feathers. ... 9796 First Methodist Church of Pittsburg 200 Mt. Pleasant St. The charter members of this church, organized in 1857 by the Rev. J. W. Harvey Hamill, included Major and Mrs. w. H. Pitts and others in the Pitts ...

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9798 Holly Springs Baptist Church 11 mi. SE of Pittsburg on FM 557 at intersection w/CR 4435 The Bluff Springs Baptist and Philadelphia Baptist churches, both established near here by post-Civil War immigrants, merged in 1903 to form the ...

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15844 Independent Hope Baptist Church 6055 FM 993 In the late 1880s, African-American residents of the Bolton community held worship services under a brush arbor. By 1898, Polk and Elizabeth Bolton ...

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9809 John L. Sheppard Home at Garrett St. Home of the Sheppard family from 1884, when the house was built, until 1891. During that time John L. Sheppard (1852-1902) served as district attorney ...

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9799 Leesburg Cemetery FM 1519, west of SH 11. Historic Texas Cemetery name and date plaque added 2012. Dwight Hays Townsend (1834-1906) donated land for this cemetery about 1870. The graves of two children which were relocated here from the Leesburg ...

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9803 Matinburg Cemetery 7.7 mi. SW of Pittsburg on the west side of FM 556 According to local tradition this cemetery began when migrant W. P. Jones buried his wife, Delila, here in 1871, hoping to later bury her in an established ...

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9804 New Mine Baptist Church 2 mi. SW of Pittsburg on FM 556, then 1.5 mi. W on FM 1519 This congregation traces its history to 1892 when Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Hart gave an acre of land for a new church building. The church was officially ... 13800 New Mine Cemetery 3.5 mi SW at intersection of FM 1519 and CR 3212 George O. and Julia F. Hart deeded land to the New Mine Baptist Church on July 20, 1892, and ten years later sold additional land to the congregation. ...

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11790 Pitts Family Cemetery 200 Quitman St. The Pitts Family Cemetery was established by William Harrison Pitts, founder of Pittsburg, according to family history. The earliest burial on this ... 9805 Pittsburg 140 Quitman St. at Market Anglo settlement of this area began in the 1850s. The W. H. Pitts (1815-1898) family arrived from Georgia in 1854, and soon were joined by more settlers ...

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9806 Reeves Chapel 2 mi. SW of Pittsburg on FM 556, then 2 mi. W on FM 1519, then .5 mi. S on CR 3326 When a migrant worker died in 1879, there was no cemetery in this community. Counce Reeves, a Civil War veteran who had come from Hamilton County, ... 9807 Riley Cemetery 14mi. SE of Pittsburg on FM 557 at County Line Baptist Church The oldest documented grave in this cemetery, that of Louise Gillum, dates to 1859. The land was acquired by John Riley, Sr., in 1875, and became ...

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9808 Saint Beulah Christian Methodist Episcopal Church S. Texas at Dickson St. 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 ... 15475 Shootout at the Pittsburg Depot 204 W. Marshall A domestic dispute involving George "Dallas" Smart, wife Annie and U.S. Army Lt. John W. Heard resulted in a public confrontation here on Feb. 10, ... 9795 Site of First Carnegie Library in Texas Pittsburg City Hall, SE corner Rusk and E. Marshall streets. Marker faces E. Marshall Street. At 1898 request of firm mining coal in Pittsburg, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie gave $5,000.00 to match local pledges and build the first Carnegie ... 9810 Stafford-Paris House at Texas St. This Victorian residence with ornate gingerbread woodwork was built in 1899 for the family of Eugene Fore. In 1913 it was sold to Camp County Sheriff ...

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9794 The Ezekiel Airship Fulton at S. Market streets, near railroad tracks Baptist minister and inventor Burrell Cannon (1848-1922) led some Pittsburg investors to establish the Ezekiel airship Company and build a craft ...

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9797 W. L. Garrett Building 102 Quitman St. at Mt. Pleasant St. Constructed in the 1890s, this building began as a one-story commercial structure. W. L. Garrett (1867-1931) bought the property in 1902 for his ... 11791 William Harrison Pitts 200 Quitman St. (1815 - 1898) Born in Georgia to Hardy and Drucilla (Neal) Pitts, William Harrison Pitts moved his plantation household to this area by 1854. He ...