Jasper County, Texas
Buna is home to 5 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.
Organized 1841 in the home of John and Mary Richardson. Nancy Laird, James and John Richardson, and Elders Levi A. Durham, Edward Parsons, and Josiah Wheat acted as Presbytery. Charter members: Elijah Allen, Mary Bolin,…
View on map ↗Five Buna citizens came together in January 1904 to form a Methodist Church. The founding members were James J. Hancock, John A. Hancock, Minnie Hancock, Ethel Hancock and Tex Rogers. Later that year, Lee Woody, Alma…
View on map ↗NEW CHERRY GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH IN 1889, HICKORY GROVE SCHOOL AND CHURCH WAS RELOCATED FROM THE WEST BANK OF COW BAYOU TO A MORE ACCESSIBLE LOCATION THAT WAS NOT BLOCKED DURING PERIODIC FLOODING. THE CHURCH MAY HAVE…
View on map ↗In 1892, in southern Jasper County, Beaumont Lumber Company established a logging camp that developed into a town, with the Buna post office opening the following year. The former logging camp survived after timber ran…
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