McMahan 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.
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church · 1986
This congregation was organized June 19, 1852, in the home of John Fleming near this site. Elders George Daniels and Reuben W. Ellis from the Plum Creek Primitive Baptist Church were called to serve as pastors by the…
View on map ↗Wattsville Gin · 2010
From about 1880 to the early 1920s, residents of Wattsville, Hall and other nearby towns used a cotton gin located here. Brothers Zechariah John and Thomas Watts settled the area ca. 1855, building the gin and also a…
View on map ↗Fleming Memorial Cemetery · 2014
This graveyard, known as Fleming Memorial Cemetery or Fleming Colored Cemetery, has served the area’s African American community for more than 100 years. John M. Fleming originally buried his deceased slaves here and…
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