Delta County · 1936
Formed from Lamar and Hopkins counties. Created July 29, 1870. Organized October 6, 1870. The name describes its position and triangular shape. Cooper, the county seat
View on map ↗Delta County, Texas
Historical Markers in Cooper, Texas
Cooper is home to 17 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.
Abel Morgan · 1962
Star and Wreath Born in North Carolina December 23, 1792. Arrived at Bexar in late December, 1835, as private Thomas Smith in Captain J. O. Blair's Company. Discharged and later enlisted in Captain Ira Westover's…
View on map ↗First National Bank · 1966
Oldest bank in Delta County. Founded 1889 as private firm operating in a grocery store. Chartered as a national bank 1891. Erected this building 1909. Guaranty State Bank merged with First National 1925. This bank has…
View on map ↗Texas Livery Stable · 1966
Had animal-drawn vehicles and saddle horses for hire. Served doctors on calls; people arriving on or meeting trains; lawyers attending court;"drummers" (salesmen) on local rounds; land seekers; hunters and fishermen;…
View on map ↗East Texas Normal College, Original Site of · 1967
Founded 1889 by W. L. Mayo (1861 - 1917), a teacher educated in Kentucky, Virginia and Indiana, who came to Pecan Gap, Texas in 1886. He was a native of Kentucky. He attracted a strong faculty to college on this site. A…
View on map ↗Hiram Rattan · 1967
(homesite 3/10 mi.; grave 4/10 mi. north) Delta County pioneer, born 1805. Settled in Texas, 1835, on brother Larkin Rattan's 1,000-acre land grant; later became site for city of Paris. Both Rattan families moved to…
View on map ↗Thomas A. Lambeth · 1967
Joined Confederate Army at 16; was captain in escort of General John B. Magruder, Commandant, District of Texas. Became sheriff of Delta County in 1879. During his six years as sheriff, the jail was set on fire 25…
View on map ↗Pioneer Smith Brothers · 1968
Tall, strong men who helped to carve Delta County out of Texas frontier. Benjamin, Charles, Gilford and Mira J. Smith came to Texas from Arkansas before or during the 1840s. They obtained from heirs title to the Moses…
View on map ↗Turbeville, Sam B. · 1968
(July 4, 1856 - July 8, 1925) Born in Mississippi. He and his wife, former Saluda Chapman, came to Lamar County, Texas 1879. Moved to Delta County in 1884. His occupation was farming. Elected Delta County Sheriff in…
View on map ↗DeSpain Bridge · 1970
(Site 4.2 miles Southwest) Located where the Bonham-Jefferson Road crossed the South Sulphur River, this pioneer bridge served the area's rich cotton trade for some 20 years. It was constructed before 1850 by landowner…
View on map ↗Erected in the Centennial Year to Commemorate Founding of Delta County · 1970
Named for shape, resembling Greek letter /\, and for evident origin of its land -- sedimentation at fork of North and South Sulphur Rivers. The first (1820-30) political activity here was oversight by the Sulphur Forks…
View on map ↗Amy Settlement · 1994
In 1875 brothers David, Harrison, Madison, and Addison Hobbs left Mississippi and settled here in what was then known as the Big Creek Thicket. A settlement named Hobbs Thicket emerged and in the early 1880s the 2-room…
View on map ↗Union Cemetery, Old · 1994
(0.75 mi. S) This graveyard served the farm and ranch communities of Gough, Yowell, and Antioch. The earliest recorded burial is that of W. H. Henderson in 1859. The cemetery contains more than 90 marked graves mostly…
View on map ↗Yates and Methodist Protestant Cemeteries · 1996
George Yates (1807-1886), his wife Mary Polly Wallace Yates (1809-1886), and their family migrated to Texas in 1846. They settled in an area of the newly-formed Hopkins County that would later become part of Delta…
View on map ↗Littleton Rattan · 2004
A native of Illinois and a veteran of the 132 Black Hawk War, Littelton Ratta (b. 1809) came to Texas with family members in 1839. He established a farm at this site in Delta County and also served as a Texas Ranger in…
View on map ↗Mount Joy Cemetery · 2012
SETTLERS FIRST CAME TO MOUNT JOY IN 1836 AND THE TOWN DEVELOPED INTO A THRIVING FARMING SETTLEMENT. PRESBYTERIAN AND BAPTIST COMMUNITY MEMBERS ESTABLISHED MOUNT JOY BAPTIST CHURCH IN 1873. A METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH…
View on map ↗Cooper Rail Depot · 2014
Built in 1913, this Spanish Revival style brick depot for the Texas Midland Railroad serviced the town of Cooper and Delta County. While the railroad dealt mainly in freight, the depot focused on facilitating passenger…
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