Ball Knob Cemetery · 1967
Land originally owned by James Ball, Sr. (1789-1867), member of pioneer family. Used as burial ground for family and friends. Deeded 1890, by J.S. and Nancy Ball to Audubon community. Incorporated as cemetery…
View on map ↗Wise County, Texas
Historical Markers in Alvord, Texas
Alvord is home to 11 official Texas Historical Commission markers — each one telling a piece of the city’s story. Browse the markers below, then find them on the map and discover more nearby with RoadHistorical.
Huff Family Massacre · 1968
An atrocity of 1874, in one of last Wise County Indian raids. While C. W. Huff and son worked in remote part of land recently settled by the family, Indians killed Mrs. Huff and daughters, Palestine and Molly. Neighbors…
View on map ↗Audubon · 1970
A vanished town which was important in this area in the 19th century. It was settled by southerners and named for naturalist John J. Audubon (1785-1851). Earliest settler, D. D. Shirey, platted town out of his farm land…
View on map ↗General Ernest O. Thompson · 1972
Acknowledged world leader in petroleum conservation. A third generation Texan, born here in Alvord. Left college to enter service in World War I, earning a battlefield commission as lieutenant colonel -at the time the…
View on map ↗City of Alvord · 1982
By 1882, when the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad built a line to this area, a small agricultural community had developed here on an old Indian trail. First known as Nina, the town was renamed Alvord in 1883, probably in…
View on map ↗Mount Zion Baptist Church and Jonestown Cemetery · 1983
In 1833 early settler Andrew Jackson Jones deeded four acres of land to be used for a church and cemetery. The earliest marked grave in the cemetery dates from that year. After the first church building burned in 1893,…
View on map ↗Alvord Lodge No. 512, A. F. & A. M. · 1994
Prominent founding member R. W. Johnson led efforts to organize Audubon Masonic Lodge No. 512 in the village of Audubon (7 miles northeast) in 1879. The lodge moved to Alvord in 1886 where members built a second floor…
View on map ↗Rhoads Family Cemetery · 2002
Rhoads Family Cemetery Originally from Tennessee, Abner E. (1820-1910) and Chloe Mays (1824-1886) Rhoads and family came to this area from Kentucky by covered wagon, arriving in 1870. Their son, Moses b. (1845-1916),…
View on map ↗Hopewell Baptist Church · 2010
In 1874, 35 charter members organized Hopewell Baptist Church. The congregation’s first building was located about one mile south at Hopewell Cemetery. In 1887, the church moved here, near the Landmark Hill named Lone…
View on map ↗Hopewell Cemetery · 2013
HOPEWELL CEMETERY ESTABLISHED 1872 HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY – 2010
View on map ↗First United Methodist Church Alvord · 2014
Originally organized as the Methodist Episcopal Church, south, in 1884, First United Methodist Church has been serving Alvord for 130 years. In March 1884, construction began on the new church building with Rev. F.W.…
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