Rusk County, Texas
Cushing has 3 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Rusk County. The marker list includes records dating to 2001. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history, ranching, farming, and frontier settlement. Use this page to preview the markers, then open RoadHistorical on your drive to see nearby stops on the map, listen to narration, and save the places you want to visit.
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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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