Houston County, Texas
Kennard is home to 8 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.
(Now "The Little Red Schoolhouse") A symbol of Black America's pride in education, plus crusade of Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), a Chicagoan who in 1913 began to fund school buildings for negroes. By 1920, when this…
View on map ↗(1 mile north) In 1838, Cyrus Halbert Randolph (1817-1889) established the Randolph community on the San Felipe de Austin-Nacogdoches mail route. Randolph, a member of the Snively Expedition, served as Houston County…
View on map ↗The town of Kennard was founded in 1903 by the Louisiana and Texas Lumber Company and platted on 160 acres. Land agent Alexander McTavish also acted as Kennard's first postmaster. The town served as a terminus for the…
View on map ↗Although the origins of this cemetery are undocumented, local oral history indicates early settler James McCevey buried his slaves at this site. Other accounts say the cemetery was given by the descendants of pioneer…
View on map ↗Stubblefield Church Records indicate that Civil War veteran Wyatt M. Stubblefield bought land in this area from J.D. Poole in August 1872, and the community later took on his name. At that same time, the New Ivie…
View on map ↗In October 1903, approximately fourteen men and women organized the First Baptist Church of Kennard. The congregation selected four trustees: Dr. T.M. Sherman, George W. Willis, M.B. Matchett and Hugh P. English, who…
View on map ↗Isaac Adair “Ike” Daniel (1864-1924) was a prominent businessman and politician in the Kennard and Crockett area. He held the office of sheriff in Houston County from 1892 to 1894 and owned real estate and a variety of…
View on map ↗Only three years after moving to Texas, John Hallmark (1775-1840), signer of the Houston County Petition of 1837, died. He was buried here by his wife Amy Satterwhite Hallmark on land owned by the State of Texas but…
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