Fayette County, Texas
Winchester 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.
In use as burial ground since site gift in 1971 by Col. Nathan Thomas (1909-81), former Republic of Texas congressman, member of the legislature, civic leader. Many Ingram Prairie pioneer families are interred her.…
View on map ↗A veteran of the War of 1812, Stephen Williams left his native North Carolina and followed the path of a major migration movement to Georgia and Alabama before coming to Texas in 1832. In 1843 he received a Texas land…
View on map ↗Shiloh was one of many communities of displaced, newly-freed slaves that sprang up after the Civil War. Named from the Bible, it was located outside Winchester, near what became known as the Shiloh Branch of the…
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