Wise County, Texas
Rhome has 4 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Wise County. The marker list includes records dating to 1979. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, ranching, farming, and frontier settlement, downtown architecture, homes, and businesses. 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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This community was called "Illinois Settlement" by the early families who immigrated here. Later, it became known as "Fairview". J. F. Thurmond (1853-1945) and his wife Amanda Elizabeth Merrifield arrived in 1880 from…
View on map ↗Organized in the 1880s under the direction of the Reverend F. V. Evans, this church held early services in the Prairie Point Schoolhouse, under brush arbors and in a tent. The first building was completed in 1903 from…
View on map ↗Prominent area businessman Dan Waggoner began this financial institution in 1904 as a branch of his privately-owned bank in Decatur (15 mi. NW). His son, W.T., served for a time as its president. Rhome's first bank was…
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