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23926 Baldwin Chapel Baptist Church marker pending marker pending 7955 Benjamin Burke Burke Family Cemetery; 4 miles north of Apple Springs on FM 2501 (1793-1863) Pioneer farmer Benjamin Burke migrated to Texas about 1829 and received an 1834 land grant from the Mexican government in what is now ... 13196 Bennett Cemetery 12 mi. NE of Groveton on SH 94, then L on Bennett Cemetery Rd Georgia native Mycajah Y. Bennett arrived in Texas with his family by 1850, when he is listed in the census for Rusk County. According to family ... 16036 Boontown Cemetery This burial ground was established in the 1880s on property granted to Edward Thomas “Buck” Smith. The cemetery served the Boontown community, which Whitney Alston Boone founded around the Civil War; Boone is among those interred. The earliest marked graves date to 1887, though there may be earlier unmarked burials. Others buried here include early community pioneers and veterans of military conflicts. Southland Paper Mill deeded an acre of land to the property in 1963. Today, descendants of the deceased continue to care for the cemetery, which is the only remaining vestige of the historic Boontown settlement. This burial ground was established in the 1880s on property granted to Edward Thomas “Buck” Smith. The cemetery served the Boontown community, which ...

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7956 Calvary Cemetery 4.8 mils northwest of Apple Springs on FM 357 just north of junction of FM 357 and FM 233 Sometime between 1865 and 1874 Alexander and Jane (Tucker) Smith moved from Alabama and settled here in the community of Nogalus Prairie with their ... 15889 Carlisle Cemetery FM 356, then northeast on Carlisle Cemetery Road This cemetery originally served residents of the Vaughns Mill community (later Bold Springs and then Carlisle). The settlement was named for Moses ... 14332 Cedar Grove Cemetery W. Main St. (FM 230), north side between Smith and Cemetery streets The first documented burial in the cemetery, that of Phebe A. Martin, took place in 1875, three years after the town of Trinity was laid out on the ... 18783 Charles Nesbitt "Charlie" Wilson NE corner W. Caroline and S. Elm streets Born in Trinity on June 1, 1933, Charles Nesbitt "Charlie" Wilson served as a United States naval officer, a state legislator and a United States ... 12445 Chita Cemetery 11 miles west of Groveton on FM 355, then 0.25 mile south on Chita Cemetery Rd. The earliest known burial in this cemetery is that of Virgil Foster, who died in 1861. According to local tradition, Peter Parker, who died the same ... 18784 Civilian Conservation Corps Camp at Trinity 375 E. Caroline A PUBLIC WORK RELIEF PROGRAM FROM 1933 TO 1942, THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC) PROVIDED JOBS FOR YOUNG, UNEMPLOYED OR UNMARRIED MEN DURING ...

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7958 Dorcas Wills Memorial Baptist Church 200 Robb St. Originally known as the Trinity Baptist Church in Christ, this congregation was formally organized on January 23, 1876, by the Rev. D.S. Snodgrass. ...

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19971 Ellis Prairie Cemetery (HTC) marker pending marker pending

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14712 First Methodist Church of Groveton 221 Church Avenue First Methodist Church of Groveton This sawmill town was founded in 1882, followed by the establishment of a Groveton Methodist congregation in 1883. ... 7961 First United Methodist Church of Trinity Elm and Caroline This congregation was organized in 1872, the same year the City of Trinity was founded. The Rev. John Woolam is credited with the establishment of ... 17144 Flat Prairie Congregational Methodist Church FM 2781; then 1 mile to Flat Prairie Road ORGANIZED IN THE LATE 1890s, BUT RELATIVELY INACTIVE UNTIL 1912, FLAT PRAIRIE CONGREGATIONAL METHODIST CHURCH WAS REORGANIZED BY REVEREND WADE EMMONS. ...

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18372 George Washington Carver School M L King Blvd. (FM 2912), NW side, 350 feet SW of Callahan (Front) St. In 1881, the town of Groveton was established near the Trinity and Sabine Railway and Timber Company. With the availability for work, the area attracted ... 12253 Glendale Cemetery 6 mi. NE of Trinity on SH 94; 1 mi. N on Glendale Cemetery Road Trinity County was created in 1850. Settlers came to this area by 1854. By 1886, a town of about 100 had grown up near the large antebellum Tullos ... 20012 Glendale Congregational Methodist Church Glendale Methodist Church, Glendale community, S side Glendale Church Rd. 300 feet E of SH 94. Organized in 1917, Glendale Congregational Methodist Church began serving the community when the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, discontinued ... 13551 Glenwood Cemetery SE end of cemetery is at intersection of W 4th and Kenley St. The Glenwood Cemetery has served the residents of Groveton for more than 100 years. The Trinity County Lumber Company established the town of Groveton ... 7960 Groveton US 287 in front of courthouse Named for a grove of black jack oak trees, Groveton resulted from the establishment of the Trinity County Lumber Company sawmill in 1882. After the ...

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7959 Hedrick House Whispering Pines Golf Club on restricted access/private property. Originally located on Tenth Street in Huntsville (30 mi. SW), this house was built for J.E. Coldwell in 1900 by Elias Jones. Walter Gibson Hedrick ... 12578 Holly Cemetery 7.5 miles east of Lovelady on FM 1280, then 0.9 mile south on CR 4235; very near to the Houston-Trinity county line Located on the Houston-Trinity county line, this cemetery once was associated with a Primitive Baptist church at the same site. According to oral ...

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7963 I. N. Parker House NW corner N. Maple and Elizabeth streets. Marker is near intersection, house is 100 feet NW and is private property. Built about 1888, this was the home of local merchant Isaac Newton Parker (1841-1918) and his family. Parker, a Confederate Civil War veteran, and ...

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6720 Jacob Pope And Elizabeth Ann Barnes Cedar Grove Cemetery, on FM 230 (Main Street), 5 blks W. of downtown Trinity Mississippi natives Jacob Pope Barnes (1832-1877) and Elizabeth Ann Rankin (1834-1912) were wed on June 12th, 1860. They moved to Texas in 1866 and ... 18373 John Henley Hill House From the town of Trinity, go south on State Highway 19 to East Tatum Street, Turn left (east) go 2/10 mile to Pinecrest Road, turn right (south) and go 9/10 mile to driveway entrance on left. Sitting proudly on a hill surrounded by giant southern magnolia, oak, cedar and crepe myrtle trees, the John Henley Hill house is situated on one ...

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7964 Moore Cemetery 12 miles northeast of Groveton on SH 94, then 4 miles on FM 358, right 3 miles on Moore Cemetery Road South Carolina native John W. Moore (1810-1898), his wife Rosella Meredith (1811-1878), and their family migrated to East Texas in the 1850s. From ... 13534 Mount Zion Cemetery 4.5 mi S on FM 357, then E on gravel road 0.5 mi Mount Zion Cemetery, in the J.J. Warren Survey, originally served early dispersed communities, including Crib Creek, Alabama Creek, Trevat, Helmic, ...

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18472 Nigton Community Intersection of FM 2501 and FM 2262. Marker reported damaged and in temporary storage Aug. 2020. Replacement marker is pending. Following emancipation, African Americans in the northeast part of Trinity County formed the freedom colony of Nigton, east of Apple Springs. Many ... 12339 North Cedar Community 18 miles east of Groveton on SH 94, then 4.5 miles north on FM 2501 (North Cedar Road) to New Church Road Among the first pioneers to settle the area that became North Cedar Community was Abner Womack, who arrived here with his family in 1856. Benjamin ...

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15316 Old Red Schoolhouse 100 San Jacinto Trinity’s first schoolhouse was a one-room log structure built in 1872 near Cedar Grove Cemetery. A two-story frame schoolhouse that stood on this ...

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24127 Parker Ridge Cemetery FM 2912 PARKER RIDGE CEMETERY, ESTABLISHED 1930, HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY 2022 7965 Pennington Baptist Church junction of FM 358 and FM 2781 In 1860 eight settlers began the Salem Baptist Church. Elder R.A. Clifton served as the first pastor. After landowner Daniel Dailey laid out Pennington ... 12889 Prairie View United Methodist Church Elmer Smith Rd, 15.5 mi. NE via SH 94, FM358/223, and FM 357 Prairie View United Methodist Church Early members of the Prairie View United Methodist Church of the Nogalus Prairie area began holding services ...

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7962 Ranald McDonald House Maple and San Jacinto Married after 1876 to Mollie Turner (1857-1919), daughter of an early Trinity pioneer, Ranald McDonald (1846-1931) settled on his land along the ... 24238 Rice Cemetery marker pending marker pending

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7969 Scrub Creek School 11.5 miles east of Groveton on SH 94, then 1.9 miles west on FM 358 Settlement of this area of Trinity County began after the Civil War. The farming communities of Scrub Creek and Crecy grew gradually, and as people ... 23282 Site of Gibson Hotel SW corner of Railroad and Main streets. Marker pending. marker pending 7967 Site of the Town of Sebastopol at intersection of FM 356 and FM 355; 8.2 miles southeast of Trinity on FM 356 Site of the town of Sebastopol, an important shipping point established in the late fifties. Named in commemoration of a naval station of Russia. ... 7970 Site of the Town of Sumpter 4.6 miles east of Groveton on US 287 Site of the Town of Sumpter First county seat of Trinity County ? ? ? Land granted in 1850 ? ? County seat located here, 1854 ? ? Town was laid out ... 16101 Site of the Town of Sumpter 5.5. mi. SE Groveton, State Hwy 106 Site of the Town of Sumpter, first county seat of Trinity County. Land granted in 1850. County seat located here, 1854. Town was laid out November ... 7968 Steele's Academy junction of FM 2781 and US Hwy 287. Pennington Site of Steele's Academy Named in honor of its founder and principal D. W. Steele of New Hampshire Academy Attended by students from many counties ... 15426 Sumpter Groveton The legislature of the State of Texas created Trinity County out of Houston County in 1850. A group of seven commissioners was appointed to locate ...

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7972 Taylor Cemetery 5 miles southeast of Trinity on FM 356, then 1 mile south on Taylor Cemetery Road Georgia natives James T. Durdin (b. 1819) and his wife Sarah Washington Ricks (b. 1819) and their five children settled here on a land grant they ... 18200 Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company Gray at Robb streets In 1907, Thompson Brothers Lumber Company built a mill and 37-acre pond at Trinity. Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company, which started at Willard in 1912, ... 7966 The Reese Family of Friendship Community Pennington George Washington Reese (d. 1863), his wife Celia (d. 1879), and seven children came to Texas from Alabama in 1857. They settled at Sumpter, then ... 7973 Thornton Church Community 10 miles west of Groveton on SH 94, then 1.5 miles on Thornton Cemetery Road James D. Thornton (1807-c.1870s) came to this area with his family in 1858. Traveling in a wagon train with other families from their Mississippi ... 7974 Trinity Chapel A.M.E. Church 980 South Robb. Marker reported missing Sep. 2015. The Trinity Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church traces its beginnings to 1882 when it was established as a mission church. The Reverend W.M. ... 13075 Trinity County Courthouse 162 W First St The Trinity County and Sabine Pass Land and Railway Company laid out the new town of Groveton in 1881, when the I&GN Railroad came through the area. ... 7971 Trinity County Seats courthouse square, Groveton Trinity County was formally organized by an act of the Texas legislature on February 11, 1850. Soon after, county residents chose between two sites ... 23943 Trinity Volunteer Fire Department 203 S. Elm St. After a devastating fire destroyed much of the downtown Trinity district in 1910, city leaders chartered the Trinity Volunteer Fire Department on ...

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20067 Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine Railroad SW corner Main St. (FM 230) and S. Maple St. On September 28, 1881, the Trinity & Sabine Railway Co. was chartered as a logging tram connecting with the International & Great Northern (I&GN) ...

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22433 Zion Hill Cemetery From Friday, TX drive 3 miles west on FM 1280. Turn left onto Zion Hill Road for 0.8 miles to Zion Hill Cemetery.