Rusk County, Texas
Tatum is home to 4 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.
Wealthy Alabama native Albert Tatum (1810-1870) settled here at Trammel's Trace and Grand Bluff Road crossing in the 1840s. Slave labor built Tatum's plantation home, a social center for the area. His wife Mary gave…
View on map ↗Begun as a burial ground for the family of pioneer settler Albert Tatum (1810-70), this land was the site of the rose garden near his plantation home. It was first used as a cemetery in 1862 for the interment of his son…
View on map ↗The original two acres of land on which this cemetery is located were donated by John W. Kuykendall in 1852. At the time of the cemetery's founding a large rock marked the grave of J. W. Hall, who was buried here in…
View on map ↗MARTIN CEMETERY DANIEL MARTIN AND HIS FAMILY SETTLED AT THIS SITE CA. 1833, ADJACENT TO THE HISTORIC TRAMMEL’S TRACE. ALTHOUGH THE CEMETERY MAY HAVE BEEN IN USE MUCH EARLIER, THE OLDEST DOCUMENTED BURIAL IN MARTIN…
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