Lamar
Burial Site of John S. Chisum
Paris, TX
(1824-1884) Cattle baron whose herds, moving from east to west Texas and into New Mexico, expanded into one of the greatest cattle...
Capt. Wm. E. Moore Home
Blossom, TX
Old Southern style homestead, 1871.
First National Bank of Paris
Paris, TX
Organized and opened for business at its present location in 1886 by William J. McDonald (1844-1926), Civil War veteran and lawyer.
George Washington Stell, Sr.
Paris, TX
(1793 - Dec. 12, 1870) A veteran of the War of 1812, Virginia native George W. Stell, Sr. came to Texas in the late 1830s.
Home of Sam Bell Maxey
Paris, TX
Native Kentuckian. West Point graduate.
Lamar County, C. S. A.
Paris, TX
Of uneasy border of Indian Territory in the Civil War.
Site of Shelton's Fort
Roxton, TX
In 1837 Jesse Shelton (1782-1855) built a log house and stockade at this site.
St. Joseph's Hospital
Paris, TX
In 1911 the Catholic bishop of Dallas, Joseph Patrick Lynch (1872-1954), beseeched the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word to...
The Historic Persimmon Grove and Capt. Hill's Military Camp
Petty, TX
Up to 1860, pioneers found here a grand 100-square-mile prairie overgrown with high grass.
The Paris Fire, 1916
Paris, TX
Although Paris was founded in the mid-1840s, many of its historic structures were lost in a fire that destroyed almost half the town in...
Union Station
Paris, TX
Attempts to bring rail service to Lamar County began in the mid-1800s, but a line did not reach the city of Paris until one was built to...