Historical Markers in Marshall, Texas

Harrison County · 1936

Formed from Shelby County; created January 28, 1839; organized June 12, 1842. Named in honor of Jonas Harrison, a pioneer statesman of New Jersey, who came to Texas in 1820. A member of the First Convention of Texas…

John T. Mills · 1936

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Republic of Texas, 1839-40, 1842-45; district judge, state of Texas, 1846-50. Mills County, Texas was named in his honor. Born in County Antrim, Ireland, Nov. 12, 1817; died Nov.…

Site of Marshall University · 1936

A pioneer institution of higher education incorporated January 19, 1842. Granted four leagues of land for its support by the Republic of Texas. The leading educational institution in northeast Texas until the Civil War.…

Whetstone Memorial · 1936

In memory of Peter Whetstone and Dicey Whetstone, pioneer settlers in Harrison County. Donors in 1843 of the site of the City of Marshall, a part of the Peter Whetstone headright granted in 1838 by the Republic of Texas.

Fry-Barry House · 1962

Built by Fidel Bircher, this raised Greek revival style cottage was designed by W. R. D. Ward, who sold Bircher the property in 1853. Edwin James Fry (1845-1927), a native Virginian who came to Texas in 1855, bought the…

Horace Randal · 1962

Brigadier General, C.S.A. Vicksburg Campaign, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Jenkins' Ferry Erected by the State of Texas 1962

Matthew Duncan Ector · 1962

(Star and Wreath) Brigadier General, C. S. A. Participated in Battles of Richmond, Ky., Murfreesboro, Chicamauga, Atlanta, Defense of Mobile. Erected by the State of texas 1962

Walter Paye Lane · 1962

(Star and Wreath) Soldier in the Texas War for Independence. Major in the Mexican War. Brigadier general, C.S.A. Erected by the State of Texas, 1962

Alexander Travis Hawthorn · 1963

(January 10, 1825 - May 31, 1899) Native of Alabama, Arkansas lawyer, colonel commanding 6th Arkansas Confederate Infantry Regiment at Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, commended for action at Helena and Fort Hindman in…

Confederate Capitol of Missouri · 1963

On this site a one-story frame house served as headquarters of the Civil War State Government of Missouri in exile. Governor Thomas C. Reynolds and his staff directed the civil and military affairs of Confederate…

First Presbyterian Church · 1963

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Governor Edward Clark · 1963

(1815-1880) Hometown Texas First Confederate Governor Son of a Georgia governor. Came here in 1842. Member Annexation Convention, 1st and 2nd Texas Legislatures. Participant Mexican War. Secretary of State 1853-7.…

Home of Last Texas Confederate Governor Pendleton Murrah · 1963

(Star and Wreath) (1824-1865) Born South Carolina. Successful lawyer and businessman in Marshall. Elected to Texas Legislature 1857. At start of Civil War, served as colonel 14th Texas Cavalry. Governor 1863-1865, the…

Home Town of Texas Confederate General Elkanah Greer · 1963

(1825-1877) Born Tennessee. Fought Mexican War. Came to Texas 1848. Commissioned colonel and raised 3rd Texas Cavalry. Attached to Ross' Texas Brigade. Fought at Wilson's Creek, Mo. Led brigade, division in Pea Ridge,…

James Harper Starr · 1963

Connecticut-born. Came to Texas 1837. A doctor in Nacogdoches. Secretary of the Treasury and army surgeon, Republic of Texas. At start of Civil War appointed to take and sell the property of enemy aliens, the proceeds…

Marshall, C.S.A. · 1963

As a center of activity for the Confederacy west of the Mississippi, this East Texas town played a major role in the Civil War. Headquarters of the Trans-Mississippi Department Medical Bureau and Postal Service were…

Ware Home · 1963

-- Two story brick colonial plantation home built 1852.

Judge J. B. Williamson House · 1964

Ante-bellum plantation. Built in Republic of Texas, on headright surveyed 1838. Squared log cabins (still within walls) and 12-foot hall formed original house. Greek revival crosshall structure is attributed to Augustus…

Marshall · 1964

Two years after Harrison County was created by the Republic of Texas Congress in 1839, landowner Peter Whetstone offered property for a courthouse, a church, and a school in an effort to persuade county officials to…

Sam Houston's 1857 Campaign in Marshall · 1964

On May 23, 1857, during his first Texas gubernatorial race, Sam Houston came to Marshall, the hometown of two of his most outspoken critics, Robert Loughery and Louis T. Wigfall, for a much anticipated debate against…

Starr Family Home · 1964

Dr. James Harper Starr (1809-1890) was a government official in the Republic of Texas and the Confederacy and a leading physician and businessman. In 1870, Dr. Starr and his son, James Franklin Starr (1844-1902),…

First Methodist Church · 1965

Begun by Littleton Fowler, 1839. Job M. Baker, first pastor. Organized 1845. Built 1861 on site given by Wm. M. and Mary M. Johnston. Bricks hand-molded, beams hand-hewn. Gallery in north end for slave members.…

Girlhood Home of Southern Beauty Lucy Holcombe Pickens · 1965

(1832-1899) Only 19th century Texas woman honored by a portrait on money-- the Confederate $100 bill. In 1850s Lucy introduced ice tea and silk hose to East Texas, in social affairs at Wyalucing-- her family's home…

Harrison County Courthouse · 1965

Built 1900. Cost $62,000. Third on this site. (Little Virginia, 1851; brick Gothic, 1889, burned in 1899.) This one of granite, brick and marble. Capitol-styled, classic Roman architecture, with a dome clock and belfry…

John Barry Henderson Home · 1965

Rear wing built before 1861. Way station on route of Shreveport-to-Daingerfield stage. Main part built 1868-1871 by Henderson, who during Civil War had furnished beef to the Confederate Army. Thick ground floor walls…

Key Log Cabin · 1965

Trammel's Trace Cabin · 1965

Built before 1842. Hand-hewn logs, chinked with pipe clay. For strength has butterfly mortising on log ends and beams with tee-braces. Was part of a 2-pen dog-trot house. Moved here, 1938, by Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Key,…

William Patillo House · 1965

Built of hand-made brick in 1846 for Wm. Patillo, teaming and transport contractor on Trammel's Trace. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965

Marshall Cemetery · 1966

Incorporated Dec. 12, 1849. Resting place of many early Texas leaders and patriots: Edward Clark (1815-80), Governor of Texas, 1861; Colonel, C.S.A. Walter P. Lane (1817-92) veteran of Texas Revolution and Mexican war;…

Ebenezer Methodist Church · 1967

On site used since 1867 for worship. First church was built and occupied 1868 when pastor was the Rev. Elijah Blair; second, 1892, under the Rev. Thomas Cole. The Rev. A. J. Newton began drive for third church,…

Governor Edward Clark · 1967

(1815-1880) Born in Georgia. Came to Texas in 1842. Served as a member of Annexation Convention. Fought in war with Mexico. Held office as State Representative, Senator, Secretary of State, Lieutenant Governor; Governor…

Greenwood Cemetery · 1967

(Dedicated 1881) Originated 1840 as private burial ground, Van Zandt family. Resting place, many early Texas leaders and patriots: Isaac Van Zandt (1813-47), came to Marshall in 1839. County named in his honor. James…

Magnolia Hall · 1968

Built 1866 by John H. Lee as a wedding gift for his daughter, Anna E. Pierce. New Orleans style "raised cottage", of brick, pine, and hand-cut cypress, was home of lawyers John L. and Jack T. Pierce. There was once a…

Pierce House · 1968

Solomon Ruffin Perry · 1968

(June 2, 1810-Jan. 13, 1895) Born in Louisburg, N. C.; came to Texas 1833. Never carried a gun, though he lived in locality of 1840's regulator-moderator feud, and risked life to help bury Robert Potter (first secretary…

Site of Marshall Masonic Female Institute · 1969

School originated as Female Department of Marshall University, chartered Jan. 18, 1842, by Republic of Texas. Marshall Masonic Lodge No. 22 chartered the Female Institute as a separate school in 1850. Five lodge members…

Van Zandt Hill · 1969

Homesite of Isaac Van Zandt (1813-1847), one of founders of Marshall, a noted frontiersman, debater, lawyer, statesman; served in 5th and 6th congresses of Republic of Texas; was Charge d'Affaires to United States,…

Lt. Gen. George Perry Rains · 1970

(September 18, 1872 - September 19, 1955) Born in Marshall. Received his medical degree from University of Texas. Enlisted in Marshall Light Infantry (local militia), 1890. Ended military career 49 years later as Brevet…

Ginocchio Hotel and Restaurant · 1971

Italian-born Charles Ginocchio arrived in Marshall in 1871. He owned several properties near the T&P Railroad depot, including the site of a notorious 1879 shooting that left Maurice Barrymore wounded and fellow actor…

Ginocchio-Cook-Pedison House · 1973

Italian-American business leader Charles Ginocchio (1844-98) and wife Roxana settled in Marshall in 1871; built this home, 1886. Architect: C. G. Lancaster, designer of county courthouse. In Ginocchio household was a…

Trinity Episcopal Church · 1973

One of the oldest Episcopal churches in Texas. An outgrowth of 1840s work in Caddo Lake area by the Rev. William Steel of Louisiana, and of appeals for priests made by Frances Cox Henderson (wife of the diplomat,…

Wiley College · 1973

(Established March 17, 1873; Chartered 1882) Founded by Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Church (North) as a co-educational institution dedicated to the education of Black men and women freed by the Civil war.…

Site of the Capitol Hotel · 1974

A 3-story brick structure built on this site in 1857 by business leader George B. Adkins (1810-76), and called "Adkins House", ranked as a very fine hotel and served as depot for stage lines, including southern branch…

First Baptist Church · 1975

John Bryce (1784-1864), Baptist missionary and secret agent for U. S. President John Tyler during Texas annexation negotiations, and the Rev. George Washington Baines, great-grandfather of President Lyndon Baines…

Nesbitt Cemetery · 1976

Robert Jameison (1810-86) and Nathan L. Nesbitt, twin brothers from Tennessee, settled this area in 1847. First grave here was that of Nathan's wife, Psyche ("Sackey") Walker Nesbitt (1815-51) Robert's wife, Susan…

Site of The Confederate Hat Factory in Marshall, C.S.A. · 1976

Texas had very few factories in 1861 when she joined the Confederate States of America and went to war on the issue of states' rights. Some of the manufacturing plants necessary to supply military goods were thereupon…

The Library Movement in Marshall · 1976

Twenty-five Marshall ladies formed the Ingleside Circulating Book Club in 1887, each member buying a book and making exchanges. When that club and four others organized a federation in 1899, their first civic goal was a…

Hagerty-Harris House · 1977

Texas & Pacific Railroad shop craftsmen built this residence of handpressed bricks in 1889 for William P. Hagerty (1844-1906), personal engineer of T. & P. President George J. Gould. Stenciled canvas ceilings decorate…

The Allen House · 1977

Born in Alabama, the Rev. Walker Montecue Allen (1819-1899) was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, author, and teacher. He moved to Marshall in 1876 with his wife Eliza Ann (Handly) (1829-1902) and their nine children.…

The Belle Fry Gaines House · 1978

This residence was erected for John R. (b. 1849) and Sallie Stinson (b. 1857) soon after their marriage in Sept. 1875. The wood framing around the entryway was carved to resemble cut stone. Stinson was a merchant and…

Adams House · 1979

Attorney and plantation owner Chesley Meredith Adams (1813-1859) bought this property in the 1850s and constructed a log house. His widow Martha and her husband the Rev. J. F. Riggs built this frame residence in 1880 to…

Bethesda Baptist Church · 1979

In 1867 the Rev. William Massey organized the "Colored Baptist Church" in his home. Soon the name "Bethesda" was chosen for the Biblical pool where the sick and troubled went for healing. Members of this congregation…

Marshall-Shreveport Stagecoach Road · 1979

Before the Civil War (1861-65), the stage road was the main transportation artery between Marshall and Shreveport, providing a link with New Orleans for distant markets. Extending northeast from Marshall, the stage road…

The Hockwald House · 1979

An orphan, Isaac ("Ike") Hockwald (1865-1956) came to Marshall in 1877 as the ward of Lionel Kahn. He joined Kahn's mercantile firm and became a prosperous businessman. Hockwald was a school trustee, member of several…

The Turner House · 1979

George Gammon Gregg, a leading merchant, built this frame house during the early 1850s. According to family tradition, Confederate veteran James Turner (d. 1913) acquired title to the property after a poker game in…

Weisman-Hirsch House · 1979

Before department store owner Joe Weisman (1848-1918) married Lena Young in 1881, her father deeded this property to Weisman. The first home burned and this structure was built in 1901. The architect was C. G. Lancaster…

Wigfall House · 1979

The oldest portion of this house was erected about 1856. It was occupied soon afterward by the family of Louis Trezevant Wigfall (1816-1874). A flamboyant political leader, Wigfall strongly advocated secession and…

Arnot House · 1980

Built in 1848 by Albert M. Arnot, a blacksmith, this house features characteristics of Greek revival and Creole styling. Four rooms were originally located on the main floor. The basement area, constructed above ground,…

Site of Temple Moses Montefiore · 1982

In 1887 Jewish residents of the Marshall area organized the Moses Montefiore congregation, Adath Israel. Daniel Doppelmayer, a Civil War veteran and one of the pioneer Jewish settlers of the area, was selected as the…

Robert W. Loughery, Civil War Editor · 1983

In the mid-nineteenth century Robert W. Loughery (b. 1820) was one of East Texas' best known journalists through his association with several Harrison County newspapers. As owner and editor of Marshall's "Texas…