Cherokee
Ben Cannon Ferry
Maydelle, TX
Native American and early Anglo settlers in this region forded the Neches River at this site, called Duty Crossing for early settler...
Cherokee County
Rusk, TX
Cherokee County has a rich and varied history.
Cherokee County C.S.A.
Rusk, TX
Civil War manufacturing, supply and military center.
Cherokee County Courthouse
Rusk, TX
This courthouse, the fourth to serve the citizens of Cherokee County, was built in 1940-41 with the assistance of the Federal Works...
Dialville
Dialville, TX
In 1866, Confederate John J. Dial (d.1928) joined a group of 60 wagons headed for Texas.
Ellis P. Bean
Alto, TX
(Peter Ellis Bean) (June 8, 1783-October 3, 1846) Born in Tennessee, Ellis P. Bean came to Texas with Philip Nolan's mustang hunters in...
Fry's Gap
Fry's Gap A gap in a ridge near Gum Creek headwaters made a natural trail for early travelers, including Kickapoo Indians.
Helena Kimble Dill Nelson
Alto, TX
(1770 -- 1848) Mother of child thought to have been first Anglo-American born in Texas, in 1804.
Isaac Lee
Alto, TX
(February 8, 1788 -- October 4, 1880) A native of Georgia, Isaac Lee lived in Mississippi and Arkansas before coming to Texas in 1828.
Jackson Smith
Jacksonville, TX
A blacksmith by trade, Kentuckian Jackson Smith came to Texas in the 1830s and participated in the War for Independence.
Jacksonville Independent School District
Jacksonville, TX
Jacksonville Independent School District Jacksonville's early settlers valued education and had a school as early as 1846 at the original...
Jacksonville's Public Square
Jacksonville, TX
Jackson Smith, a Republic of Texas soldier and scout who first explored the Gum Creek area in 1838, returned in 1847 and built a house...
James Stephen Hogg and Cherokee County
Rusk, TX
James Stephen Hogg was born in 1851 to Lucanda (McMath) and Joseph L. Hogg on the family's plantation near Rusk.
John Joseph Bowman
Wells, TX
(Aug. 15, 1807-Mar. 30, 1890) Tennessee native John Joseph Bowman came to Texas with his family in 1822 and settled in Stephen F....
Lon Morris College
Jacksonville, TX
Oldest junior college in Texas.
Love's Lookout
Jacksonville, TX
On this nine mile long ridge there are two historic lookout points which command a view of 30 to 35 miles.
Maydelle
Maydelle, TX
In 1906, the Texas State Railroad built to this area for timber to fuel iron manufacturing at the penitentiary in Rusk.
Mound Prairie
Alto, TX
Bulging out of the earth a few yards from this point, three prehistoric Indian mounds interrupt the prevailing flat terrain.
Old Neches Saline Road
Jacksonville, TX
Originally an Indian trail.
Oldest Home in Jacksonville
Jacksonville, TX
Begun in Texas colonial style, 1857.
Robert Graves Stadler
New Summerfield, TX
Born in Granville County, North Carolina, Robert Graves Stadler was a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Texas War of Independence.
Samuel Smith Homesite
New Summerfield, TX
Samuel Smith (1800-1873), a native of Switzerland, came to Knox County, Tennessee, at the age of 19.
Site of Linwood
Linwood, TX
Star and Wreath On land inherited by Delilah Dill Durst from Helena Kimble Dill, whose daughter born in 1804 was thought to be first...
Site of the Union Hotel/Bracken House/Acme Hotel
Rusk, TX
The first hotel to occupy this site was the Union Hotel, a wood frame building erected in 1849.
Texas Civil War Iron Works
Jacksonville, TX
To make farm and kitchen tools need in wartime, Chapel Hill Manufacturing Co. in 1863 set up plant on this site, processing native iron;...
The Rusk Cherokeean
Rusk, TX
The first newspaper in Rusk was the short-lived Rusk Pioneer, which began in 1848 and moved to Palestine the following year.
Town of Craft
Craft, TX
Known first as Independence, the town of Craft grew up in the 1890s on the railroad.
Weeping Mary Community
Alto, TX
Freed African Americans organized the Weeping Mary Community following the Civil War.
Zebulon Pike Campsite
Alto, TX
In 1807, under commission from Gen. James Wilkinson, Governor of the Louisiana Territory, Lt. Zebulon Pike led an expedition to explore...