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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A3Z_site-of-lacys-fort_Alto-TX.html
Built before 1835 as a home and trading post by Martin Lacy, Indian agent for the Mexican government.
Used as a place of refuge after the massacre of the Killough family, October 5, 1838.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A3T_site-of-the-delaware-indian-village_Alto-TX.html
Noted as interpreters and messengers of peace, the Delawares were chiefly instrumental in bringing other tribes to the General Treaty at Bird's Fort (in the present county of Tarrant) in 1843.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A3R_site-of-mission-san-francisco-de-los-tejas_Alto-TX.html
Originally established as Mission San Francisco de los Tejas in 1690 by Franciscan missionaries for the purpose of Christianizing and civilizing the Neches and other Indians of the region. Reestablished in 1716. Abandoned temporarily due to French…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20ZE_ponta_Jacksonville-TX.html
In 1901, a new townsite was laid out on the Texas & New Orleans Railroad. Promoted by brothers Lee D. and William T. Guinn, it was named Hubb for county surveyor Hubbard S. Guinn. It was renamed Ponta (an adaptation of the Latin Ponte, which means…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SL3_cherokee-county-c-s-a_Rusk-TX.html
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Civil War manufacturing, supply and military center. Field Transportation Bureau shop made and repaired wagons, saddles, harnesses. Gun factory produced "Mississippi rifles" and pistols. Two iron works cast plows, skillets, pots, irons. S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRK0_bachelor-girls-library-club_Rusk-TX.html
Formed by 15 young single women in 1902 with fewer than 50 books, this library club would later donate to the City of Rusk a volume of books that greatly contributed to an inventory in excess of 23,000 books. The Book Club, originally housed-in do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRIP_norman-law-firm_Rusk-TX.html
Wyatt Thomas Norman and William Harrison Shook, both Cherokee County natives, opened a law office on the Courthouse Square in 1898. George Gibson became a partner in 1918. He later moved to Jacksonville and opened a branch there. Wyatt T. Norman's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRHF_the-james-i-perkins-family-home_Rusk-TX.html
Attorney James N. Thomas (b. 1816) erected the one-story portion of this residence before 1851. James I. Perkins (1847-1923) built the two-story wing and added Victorian detailing after he purchased the property in 1883. Head of a leading Rusk fam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR7R_chief-bowles-last-homesite_Alto-TX.html
In 1836, General Sam Houston negotiated a treaty with the Cherokees in Texas allowing possession of the lands they occupied in east Texas. The leading figure among the Cherokees at that time was Duwali (also known as Bowl, Chief Bowles and Bold Hu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR7B_cherokee-county_Rusk-TX.html
Cherokee County has a rich and varied history. Spanish and French explorers of the Seventeenth Century found Tejas and Hasinai Indians living in this area, and Spanish missions were established in the region.
Driven out of the United States, th…