Fayette County, Texas
Winchester has 4 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Fayette County. The marker list includes records dating to 1971. Common marker themes include courthouse and civic history, churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history. 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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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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