Panola County · 1936
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View on map ↗Panola County, Texas
Historical Markers in Carthage, Texas
Carthage is home to 30 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.
Site of Bethany · 1936
A thriving town of the fifties - through it passed the Shreveport Road over which many emigrants entered Texas
View on map ↗Joseph Benedict Beauchamp · 1957
Born Jan. 14, 1814 in Kentucky. Served in the Army of Texas, 1835; participated in the Storming of Bexar. Died April 16, 1862. His wife, Angelina Lindsay, born 1825; died 1862.
View on map ↗Old Panola County Jail · 1967
Designed by J. N. Carnes and completed in 1891, this structure served as the Panola County Jail for sixty-two years. The two-story brick building exhibits Italianate and Romanesque style influences and features a…
View on map ↗Walter Prescott Webb · 1978
(April 3, 1888 - March 8, 1963) The world-renowned American historian Walter Prescott Webb was born near this site. His parents were Casner P. and Mary Elizabeth (Kyle) Webb. C. P. Webb farmed and taught school. The…
View on map ↗The Respess Family and Respess Creek · 1979
In the 1870s Richard Ormand Respess (1839-1906) and his wife Nannie Lois Williams moved here from Harrison County. Respess gave the land and taught at the first school built in the Frog Pond community, known later as…
View on map ↗Jonathan Anderson · 1980
Kentucky native Jonathan "Old Shelby" Anderson, a grandson of American Revolution veteran Bailey Anderson, settled in this area when Texas was part of Mexico. He served in the Texas Revolution and fought at the Battle…
View on map ↗Mt. Zion Cemetery · 1981
This site was originally part of a tract owned by pioneer area settlers Richard and Polly Golden. They later gave it to their daughter Elizabeth and her husband Cornelius Crenshaw, who buried a son here in the 1840s.…
View on map ↗Rehobeth United Methodist Church · 1981
The Rev. J. M. Mills conducted the first services for this church in 1878. That same year work began on a sanctuary at this site. The land, which included a schoolhouse near the cemetery entrance, was deeded to the…
View on map ↗First United Methodist Church of Carthage · 1982
Organized in 1855, this congregation held its first services in the Masonic Hall. In 1859 the members bought this property and began a frame church which was not completed until after the Civil War. The building was…
View on map ↗Allison Chapel United Methodist Church · 1983
The Rev. Littleton Fowler, an early Methodist missionary in East Texas, is believed to have organized this congregation between 1837 and 1839. Land for the first sanctuary, now the site of Old Williams Cemetery (1 mi.…
View on map ↗Ebenezer United Methodist Church · 1983
This congregation was organized at Old Macedonia (3 mi. E) in 1843, three years before the formation of Panola County. It is believed the church was formed through the missionary efforts of the Rev. Littleton Fowler,…
View on map ↗First Christian Church of Carthage · 1983
Gospel meetings in the late 1880s brought together enough prospective members to organize the First Christian Church of Carthage. Hamilton Pollard deeded a lot to the congregation in 1890, and a building was completed…
View on map ↗Pisgah United Methodist Church · 1983
This church was organized in 1848 with the Rev. N. S. Johnson as the first pastor. Early services were conducted in homes, except for summer camp meetings held at a site known as Old Camp Ground (2.5 mi. S). A sanctuary…
View on map ↗Old Center Cemetery · 1985
In 1856, land for the Old Center Cemetery was first donated by James Rowe, a community pioneer and a veteran of the Texas War for Independence. Rowe's grave, dated 1868, is one of the oldest in the cemetery. The…
View on map ↗Antioch Cemetery · 1986
Although the oldest recorded tombstone in this cemetery is dated 1849, land was not formally set aside for that purpose until 1875. The property was deeded by Thomas Jefferson Miller soon after the death of his son,…
View on map ↗Grand Bluff Cemetery · 1986
This cemetery originally served the pioneers who settled in the nearby community of Grand Bluff (.5 mi. W), an early ferry crossing on the Sabine River. The earliest known burials, dated 1838, are for Mary Frances Hoyle…
View on map ↗Rock Hill United Methodist Church · 1986
Organized at Grand Bluff (ca. 4 mi. E) in 1887 as a Baptist church, this congregation moved to the new community of Rock Hill and became affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, in 1895. Circuit-riding…
View on map ↗The Panola Watchman · 1986
Tom M. Bowers (1837-1916) printed the first issue of the Watchman on July 2, 1873. He had published the Carthage Banner here from 1859 until he left about 1861 to serve in the Confederate army. Type was handset, and…
View on map ↗Deadwood Cemetery · 1988
The community of Deadwood was established in the 1830s by the Adam LaGrone family. A family burial ground was begun on the LaGrone farm in 1847 when Adam LaGrone's wife, Christeena, died. Adam was buried next to his…
View on map ↗Margie Neal · 1988
(1875-1971) A native of Panola County, Margie Elizabeth Neal began her career as a teacher in 1893. She became editor and owner of the East Texas Register newspaper in 1904. A respected educator and leader in the woman…
View on map ↗Waldrop Cemetery · 1993
According to local oral history, this community graveyard began in 1872. Jemima Guest Gentry, who had mentioned to her family that a nearby cedar grove would make a nice cemetery plot, died on June 8, 1872. Her family…
View on map ↗Antioch Missionary Baptist Church · 1994
Five charter members founded this church in 1871. J. F. McLendon and W. H. H. Hayes served as first pastors. A sanctuary was built on 2.4 acres (present-day Antioch Cemetery) donated by T. J. Miller and Margaret Barnes…
View on map ↗Jim Reeves · 1994
(August 30, 1924 - July 31, 1964) Born in Galloway, James Travis Reeves played professional baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals' minor league team until an injury forced him to abandon that career. He became a radio…
View on map ↗Mount Zion C. M. E. Church · 1994
Methodist Bishop Enoch M. Marvin and five former slaves founded this congregation on November 2, 1870, during a meeting of the East Texas Methodist Conference in Carthage. Early worship services were held in a brush…
View on map ↗Holland Quarters Cemetery · 1996
This African American cemetery is located on land deeded to former slaves by Spearman Holland after the Civil War. The site also included the Pine Grove Baptist Church, a school, and lodge hall. Though the site contains…
View on map ↗First Baptist Church of Carthage · 1998
Ten years after Carthage became the county seat, a group of pioneers assembled to organize a Baptist church. In April 1858 the Rev. J. H. Whitmore was called as first pastor. By the end of the year, the congregation had…
View on map ↗Cedar Grove Baptist Church · 2004
Soon after the Civil War, settlers established a community here, naming it Snap after Snap Cariker, a physician and early resident. On May 14, 1905, several members of what was known as Six Mile Church met under the…
View on map ↗International Boundary Marker · 2004
In the early 1700s, France and Spain began disputing their New World international boundary that included this area; each nation claimed what is now Texas. When the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in…
View on map ↗Carthage Book Club · 2010
IN 1907, TWELVE AREA WOMEN, INCLUDING TEXAS’ FIRST WOMAN SENATOR, MARGIE NEAL, ESTABLISHED THE CIRCULATING BOOK CLUB. FOCUSING ON CIVIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN ADDITION TO LITERACY, THE CLUB’S FIRST MAJOR PROJECT WAS TO…
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