Rusk County, Texas
Cushing is home to 3 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.
In 1839, not long after bringing his family to Texas from Tennessee, Martin Baysinger (1808-1904) received a 640-acre land grant near here. He established a plantation that included a grist mill, brick making pit, syrup…
View on map ↗McKnight Cemetery began as a burial ground for the family of William Newton and Rebecca McKnight, with the oldest marked grave dating to the 1850s. By the Civil War, it opened to other families in nearby communities,…
View on map ↗Monte Verdi, the 10,700-acre antebellum plantation of Julien Sidney Devereux and Sarah (Landrum) Devereux Garrison, was one of the most economically and historically significant plantations in the state. Devereux family…
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