Historical Markers of Texas

13571 Blackland Cemetery Blackland Rd N of E Linda Ln In 1882, William and Cassandra Hunt Harvey donated land to the farming community of Blackland to be used for a school, church and cemetery. The newly ...

6136 Central National Road of the Republic of Texas Rockwall County Courthouse grounds In an effort to improve overland transportation, the Republic of Texas Congress authorized the Central National Road in Feb. 1844. The roadway was ... 16359 Chandler Cemetery 150 yards west of the intersection of Henry Chandler Road and Ridge Road (F.M. 740) on the south side of Henry Chandler KENTUCKY NATIVES HENRY MARTIN AND MARTHA (WADE) CHANDLER WERE SETTLED HERE BY 1860 AS SOME OF THE EARLIEST ANGLO PIONEERS IN THE AREA. OF THE SEVEN ... 6137 Chisholm Cemetery on SH 205, 8 miles southeast of Rockwall (on West side of road) in McLendon-Chisholm Community Enoch P. Chisholm, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, brought his family to this area in the 1860s. The community which grew up here was named ...

6138 East Trinity Lodge No. 157, A.F. & A.M. marker is just west of intersection of Rusk and Goliad Streets on 100 block of Rusk (Lodge building is at 104 S. Goliad), Rockwall A dispensation for the formation of the lodge was granted July 26, 1854, when Rockwall was part of Kaufman County. The Grand Lodge of Texas designated ...

6140 Fate Lodge No. 802, A.F. & A.M. 104 S. William near E. Crawford Ave., Fate Fate Lodge No. 802 traces its history to December 3, 1896, when a charter was issued by the Grand Lodge of Texas, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. ... 6141 Fate Presbyterian Church Calvary Chapel of Fate, SE Corner W.E. Crawford Ave. and Elmhurst Ln. When Presbyterians organized this congregation in the middle 1880s, the community of Fate was developing as a new settlement on the Missouri, Kansas ... 6139 First Baptist Church of Rockwall 600 block of S. Goliad Street at the corner of S. Goliad and Boydstun Street, Rockwall Organized in 1852 by Elder John R. Briscoe and Elder M. Glover in the home of J. C. Williams, this was originally called New Hope Baptist Church, ... 6142 First Presbyterian Church of Rockwall First Presbyterian Church of Rockwall, White Hills Dr., SW side 300 feet SE of Ridge Rd. (FM 740) On November 7, 1854, a small group of Presbyterians led by the Rev. John U. Vance gathered together to organize the Rockwall Cumberland Presbyterian ... 6143 First United Methodist Church of Rockwall 1408 S. Goliad (at the intersection of S. Goliad and Damascus Streets), Rockwall This congregation developed from early worship services conducted by area pioneers in the home of Mrs. Hugh Shaw. The church was formally organized ... 6144 First United Methodist Church of Royse City Church and Josephine Streets (off SH 66) in Royse City This fellowship, first known as the "Methodist Episcopal Church, South", was organized in 1887. The Rev. James McDugald (1847-1929) became the circuit ...

18919 Glen Hill Cemetery Glen Hill Way, N side, 300 feet W of Ridge Rd. (FM 740). Established c. 1870. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2008

6145 Heath Methodist Church in the 100 block of Smirl Drive (FM 1140) near the Southern intersection of FM 1140 and FM 740, Heath Founded in 1890 at a site just south of town, this church originally was named Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The congregation and the ...

24488 Memorial Park marker pending marker pending 6146 Mount Zion Cemetery 1.8 miles North of Fate on SH 66, then 2.3 miles West on FM 552 to cemetery on south side of road. John Dewees (1819-1893) and his wife Martha Jane Stevens Dewees (1824-1905) migrated to Texas from Indiana in 1856 with their family of seven children. ...

24113 Nathan Butler Cemetery marker pending marker pending 23573 New Hope Baptist Church 801 Old Greenville Road Before the founding of both the town and county in which it is located, this predominately African American congregation has worshipped together. ...

6147 Rockwall County Historic Rockwall County Courthouse grounds, south side facing East Rusk Street Formed from Kaufman County. Organized March 1, 1873. April 23, 1873 Named for a curious geological formation, an underground rock wall, that comes ... 6148 Rockwall County Historic Rockwall County Courthouse grounds, south side facing East Rusk Street First settled in the 1840s, this region was a part of Kaufman County until 1873, when Rockwall County was created. With an area of 147 square miles, ... 23505 Rockwall Memorial Cemetery marker pending marker pending 22759 Royse City Calaboose Plum St. between SH 66 & RR Ave, Old Jail Park, NW corner of calaboose Built as the city’s second calaboose, or jail, this small structure was used to house prisoners until the 1940s. According to records, the building ... 6150 Royse City Lodge No. 663, A.F. & A.M. 124 Arch Street (City Hall) Royse City Royse City Masonic Lodge No. 663 held its first meeting in 1888. The lodge purchased a town lot here in 1922 and erected this structure in 1925. ...

6135 Sterling Rex Barnes in front of Heath Cemetery at the corner of Smirl (FM 1140) Dr and Terry Lane, Heath (Gravesite in Heath Cemetery) Virginia native Sterling Rex Barnes (1799-1866) migrated to this area from Mississippi with his wife Martha Ann (Mitchell) ...

13259 The Church of Christ in Rockwall 485 N FM 549 Before establishing an independent republic in 1836, Texas settlers were expected to support the Mexican state religion. As Mexico's rule waned, ...