Windom has 3 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Fannin County. The marker list includes records dating to 1967. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, downtown architecture, homes, and businesses, oil, industry, and railroad-era commerce. 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.
Mid-Victorian architecture; built 1890s by John Baldwin. His cotton gin patrons -- 70 or 80 per day -- were guests at meals in the home. During early 1940s many legislators, two governors -- Coke Stevenson, W. L.…
Instituted under direction of Elder Willie Pickett, missionary of Southern Baptist Convention, on Nov. 9, 1847. Charter members: Betsy Parrish Gilmer; Margaret Hart; John W. Jones, Tamazine D. Jones, Tamazine F. Jones;…
Recognizing a need for banking services, a group of local businessmen opened the Private Bank of Windom in 1900. Originally, the bank operated out of F.C. Council's store but relocated to a new brick structure on the…