Historical Markers in Hawkins, Texas

Macedonia School · 1969

One of first one-teacher schools in Wood County. Served the county's earliest community -- Macedonia, which was renamed Redland in 1900. Land for school was donated by W. M. McCarroll in 1885. W. M. Harris was one of…

Jarvis Christian College · 1993

In 1904 the Texas Negro Disciples of Christ joined with the Christian Women's Board of Missions (CWBM) to establish a school for Black youth. A campus, consisting of a 456-acre tract donated by Ida and J. J. Jarvis of…

Lillian Richard · 2011

Born in the Fouke community in 1891, Lillian Richard was one of eleven children of Derry and Cornelia (Washington) Richard. In 1910 she moved to Dallas, working initially as a cook. In 1925 she accepted a position with…

Rosenwald Schools in Wood County · 2012

In the 1920s, black schoolchildren, mostly poor and rural, attended school in old dilapidated buildings with out-of-date textbooks. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, in collaboration with…

Jobe Cemetery · 2013

African American families settled the Jobe Community on the Lemuel G. Powers survey. Brothers Phelix and Sampson Jobe bought several tracts of land from 1881 to 1892, setting aside land for the Jobe Cemetery. The local…

Paron Cemetery · 2017

Intersection of FM 1795 and CR 3689, 5.5 miles Northeast of Hawkins

Florence Robinson Cottage · 2018