Fertile land and plentiful water drew settlers to this area from as early as the 1840s. This part of Collin County was well populated by 1876 when the Houston and Texas Central Railroad built a water supply stop on Cottonwood Creek near this site. . . . — — Map (db m220381) HM
Located on land purchased from Mr. and Mrs. John W. Whisenant, this cemetery was formally established on April 5, 1884, by the International Order of Odd Fellows, local lodge No. 249. Encompassing almost three acres of land, the cemetery has served . . . — — Map (db m43407) HM
On March 11, 1848, Ebenezer Allen, former Republic of Texas Attorney General, obtained a charter for the Galveston and Red River Railway. Track construction began in early 1856, and the company was renamed Houston & Texas Central (H&TC) Railway . . . — — Map (db m220383) HM
Pioneer settler C.A. McMillen established the Corinth Society Church of August 2, 1846. Thought to be the oldest continuing church congregation in Collin County, its charter members included the Murphy, Wilkins, and Maxwell families. The church . . . — — Map (db m164621) HM
Methodists were among the earliest settlers in Collin County. A group of thirteen pioneers met at Joseph Russell’s log cabin close to present-day Allen on November 15, 1847 and organized a church. Russell’s home was located south of Rowlett Creek . . . — — Map (db m220384) HM
Lovejoy School was created in 1917 by the consolidation of Forest Grove and Lick Springs schools. It was named for Mrs. J.L. Lovejoy (d. 1939), a local clubwoman who promoted many educational causes for the area. Grades 1 through 9 were taught here . . . — — Map (db m246076) HM
In 1874, the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company was expanding north from Houston to Denison, Texas. Water stops were necessary along the route at 7 - 10 mile intervals to keep the steam locomotives going. At this location Irish immigrants . . . — — Map (db m43406) HM
The Community of Allen, founded in the 1870s, experienced a surge of growth after the arrival of the Texas Traction Company in 1908. The town was a stop on the interurban line between Dallas and Sherman, serviced daily by hourly passenger cars from . . . — — Map (db m305953) HM
This cemetery has served the Altoga area since 1881, including what was once the Johnson community to the south and the Ardath community to the west. The earliest recorded burials are those of three-year-old Ida Leomy Parker in July 1881 and . . . — — Map (db m264292) HM
Lewis and Paulina Sherley moved to North Texas from Kentucky about 1853. When the town of Anna was established in 1872, their grandsons, brothers Andrew and Fred Sherley, opened a hardware store. In 1894 they built this structure to house the . . . — — Map (db m194691) HM
The Houston & Texas Central Railway, formally known as the Galveston-Red River Railway, came thru the area we now call Anna in 1873. At that time, the railway established a "flag stop" where a flag could be raised to indicate when freight or . . . — — Map (db m285466) HM
When the Houston & Texas Central Railroad came through in 1872, there was no town here. The railroad was the spark that ignited the town of Anna, and the population had grown to 20 people by 1883.
The depot was 70 feet in length when it was . . . — — Map (db m194687) HM
This cemetery, which dates to the mid-19th century, is on land donated by early settler John Coffman (1804-1880). His son, George W. Coffman (1840-1913), owned and operated a homestead one mile west of this site. The oldest marked grave dates to . . . — — Map (db m72897) HM
Liberty Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), one of the earliest Christian churches in Texas, was founded in northern Collin County by pioneer settlers Collin McKinney and J.B. Wilmeth in 1846. In 1854 a Christian seminary was established by . . . — — Map (db m194694) HM
In the 1850s, North Texas attracted settlers from border states like Kentucky with the promise of inexpensive land for farming and stock raising. One such man was Dr. William Dixon Lair (1814-1887), a pioneer physician, former Kentucky state . . . — — Map (db m309928) HM
On February 23, 1854, William C. McKinney, James W. Throckmorton, John A. Throckmorton, and Joseph Wilcox set aside twenty-five acres for the town of Mantua, which was conceived as a site for Mantua Seminary. Proceeds from the sale of town lots . . . — — Map (db m223613) HM
The earliest citizens of Anna were determined that their children should have the best educational opportunities possible. Founded in 1883 with a population of twenty, Anna was named for the daughter of a Houston & Texas Central Railroad official. . . . — — Map (db m194695) HM
Located in northeast Collin County and positioned between Desert and Pilot Grove Creeks, Blue Ridge was named for its hilltop location and the blue-flowering grass in the area. From a distance, the grass looked like a blue haze. Pioneers began to . . . — — Map (db m185635) HM
The town of Blue Ridge was established in 1876. Four years later, the Rev. W.L. Fagg donated land for a Methodist Protestant Church. He served as the church's first pastor and was succeeded by the Rev. Martin Gentry. A tabernacle erected behind the . . . — — Map (db m264294) HM
Situated near creeks and branches in a valley east of Blue Ridge, the Frognot community (also known as Frog Not, Frog Nod, Frogknot) has a number of theories as to the origins of its name. Most of these theories involve frogs that appear in the . . . — — Map (db m309838) HM
Born in Wilson County, Tennessee, George Washington Smith came to Texas in 1834 with his wife Elizabeth Briggs. He fought in the Texas War for Independence (1835-36) as a private in Capt. Clendennin’s Company 1st Regiment Artillery. In the Mexican . . . — — Map (db m163227) HM
In 1866 Moses and Mary Jane Hubbard and their daughter Alla moved from Missouri to Collin County, where Hubbard was a successful doctor, farmer, and one of the largest landholders in the area. Concerned with the inadequacy of the local school, the . . . — — Map (db m194794) HM
In 1910 local businessman J. Fred Smith devised a plan to build a downtown shopping area in Celina. Influenced by the "City Beautiful" movement popular at that time, he acquired land, laid off the "Square" and proceeded to build brick buildings . . . — — Map (db m194845) HM
The local Baptist community built a church in 1882 approximately three miles east of Celina, just north of the present Crossroads Cemetery. The property, encompassing 1 1/2 acres, had been jointly owned by brothers Abiel D. and Edmond Stelzer. The . . . — — Map (db m194796) HM
Early Celina settler Richard Tinsley Peterman built this structure in 1914, twelve years after the town moved from its original site (1 mi. S) to the railroad line. The building originally housed a grocery store on the ground floor and rental space . . . — — Map (db m194798) HM
The town of Celina, settled by natives of Celina, Tennessee, was founded near this site in 1870. The oldest grave here is that of a child who died in 1884. W.J. Bounds (1830-1886) donated the land as a community cemetery after the death of Elizabeth . . . — — Map (db m194849) HM
Elisha and Margaret Ann (Mannon) Chambers came to Texas from Indiana in 1847. Their infant son Lewis Cass Chambers died in 1853 and they donated the land on which he was interred for a cemetery and school. This site was once at the crossroads of a . . . — — Map (db m194598) HM
Established in 1905, Chambersville Methodist Church has served this community for more than 100 years. From Chambersville's founding in 1847 until the church's organization, residents attended non denominational services in various locations. J.M. . . . — — Map (db m194599) HM
In the 1870s and 1880s the pioneer settlement of Stony Point was a thriving agricultural community with a cotton gin, general store, gristmill, molasses mill and school. On Aug. 17, 1878, area residents formed the Stony Point Baptist Church. Five . . . — — Map (db m264291) HM
This burial ground has served the residents of Climax since the mid-1800s. The Climax community dates to 1851, when William Warden, a farmer from Missouri, settled here with his family. The rural community grew and by the 1890s, it had two . . . — — Map (db m201781) HM
Kentucky native John Miles Cope, who settled in Collin County in 1848 with his parents and brother, helped organize the Copeville community (originally known as Black Spot) in the 1850s on land in the Willis Roberts and Hezekiah Walters surveys. . . . — — Map (db m164610) HM
Collin County pioneer Abner Thompson came to this area about 1850 and settled on land that was originally part of the Silvester Williams Survey, deeding a portion of it to be used as a cemetery. The first burial, that of Thompson himself, took . . . — — Map (db m164613) HM
The site of the former town of Frankford consists of the three-acre wagon yard, five-acre Frankford Church area and three-acre cemetery. The town of Frankford grew around Indian Springs after W.C. McKamy and his family moved to Texas in 1852. They . . . — — Map (db m93072) HM
The White Rock Masonic Lodge Hall served as a schoolhouse and church building for the early Frankford community. Among the worshipers were a group of Methodists who were organized as part of a circuit in 1885. In the 1890s, this frame church . . . — — Map (db m183199) HM
With Allied victory in World War II Europe secured, Farmersville celebrated the return of the area’s most famous citizen soldier. On his 18th birthday, Audie Murphy enlisted in the U.S. Army at the Greenville Post Office. In more than two years of . . . — — Map (db m162991) HM
Anna Melissa Hicks Bain (1834-1906), widow of John Alexander Bain, built this house in 1865 on 6.75 acres of land east of town square in Farmersville. She reared five daughters here: Mary Clorinda, Martha, Catherine, Christina and Margaret. An . . . — — Map (db m162856) HM
Bethlehem Baptist Church was established in 1854. Gifts provided land for a church and cemetery: in 1859, from Hugh and Edea Woody; in 1886, from Peyton D. and Sallie E. Huff; and, in 1904, from J.B. and Martha Watson. At that time, the Bethlehem . . . — — Map (db m164623) HM
Originated 1849 as a settlement on the Jefferson-McKinney road, and near Republic of Texas National road. Named by pioneers for their chief occupation. After 1854, the Yearys and their neighbors of Sugar Hill (2 mi. NE) began relocating here. Dr. . . . — — Map (db m162995) HM
Farmersville is one of the oldest towns in Collin County. It has historic ties to the antebellum (pre-Civil War) era of Texas and the pioneer settlement of Sugar Hill (1.5 mi. NE), founded by John Yeary. The center of settlement soon shifted to . . . — — Map (db m163056) HM
This Romanesque revival structure, built in 1888-89. Housed a second story fraternal hall above a first floor mercantile. One of the earliest surviving buildings in Farmersville, it features locally quarried limestone, narrow double-hung windows, . . . — — Map (db m162982) HM
Fifteen charter members, meeting under a brush arbor at this site on May 14, 1865, organized the First Baptist Church and chose the Rev. John C. Averitt (1818-1895) as the first pastor. Worship services were held in private homes and later in the . . . — — Map (db m162853) HM
This congregation traces its beginning to organized Methodist classes conducted in 1856 by the Rev. J. W. Chalk in a local schoolhouse west of the pioneer town of Farmersville. A community wide all-night revival held in Farmersville’s lone church . . . — — Map (db m162815) HM
Named for the occupation of many of its citizens, the town of Farmersville was founded in the mid 1850s. A private bank, the Exchange Bank was established in 1885, and housed in the rear of the Aston Brothers store. A national bank charter was . . . — — Map (db m170534) HM
These Farmersville heroes died to keep the torch of freedom burning
World War I
Joseph W. Aусоск •
Thadus O. Gilbert •
Justin Gill •
Estel Hendrex •
Jack L. Lewis •
John C. Long •
Carl Sprinkle . . . — — Map (db m264310) WM
Established in December 1854 in the Old Rock Quarry Community, the Glass-Chapman Cemetery is the final resting place of generations of the Glass and Chapman families. William Pinckney Chapman (1815-1887) and Elisha William Glass (1796-1868) were . . . — — Map (db m310013) HM
Educator Gussie Nell Davis was a role model to many young girls and women through her creation of the first girls’ drill team in America. Born to Robert Augustus Davis and Mattie Lavinia (Callaway) Davis on November 4, 1906, she and her family . . . — — Map (db m309848) HM
Prominent businessman John Milburn Honaker and his wife Malinda (Buckley) built a queen-Anne home at this site in 1893. They extensively remodeled the house in 1910 in a neoclassical style, adding a full second floor and a two-story porch with . . . — — Map (db m162978) HM
Allen Daniel and his family came to Texas from Tennessee in 1847. He and his wife Elizabeth were the parents of eight children. They settled in this area in 1850 and Daniel purchased 480 acres of land in May 1851. Less than one year later, on . . . — — Map (db m163050) HM
And all American men and women of all races and creeds - military and civilian - who have loyally and proudly served this nation in times of war and peace to their courageous sacrifices and their unselfish devotion to duty without regard to personal . . . — — Map (db m264307) WM
This historic onion shed, restored in 2002, was one of several onion sheds in Farmersville, built by the railroads for the packing and shipping of the Collin County Sweets. In 1925 local farmers began planting onion crops, and by 1935 Farmersville . . . — — Map (db m309841) HM
This historic Onion Shed, restored in 2002, was one of several onion sheds in Farmersville, built by the railroads for the packing and shipping of the Collin County Sweets. In 1925 local farmers began planting onion crops, and by 1935 Farmersville . . . — — Map (db m309846) HM
Malissa (Dodson) Sides became the first person to be buried on this site in March 1891. Believed to have been half Native American, Mrs. Sides and her Cherokee half sister Ellen Murphy survived the U.S. government relocation of the tribe during . . . — — Map (db m201949) HM
The Prairie Grove Cemetery served residents of the Aleo community from the late 1800s until the middle of the 20th century. The burial ground has ties to the Prairie Grove Baptist Church, which set aside land to be used for burials. The oldest known . . . — — Map (db m264430) HM
Situated in the high lands between Pilot Grove and Indian Creeks, the Snow Hill community formed as a small cattle and farming community in 1850. Oral tradition states that surveyors used a snow-covered hill as a base for their map and the name Snow . . . — — Map (db m264304) HM
Located in the eastern part of Collin County near the Hunt County line, Sugar Hill, one of the area’s earliest communities, was established around 1849. The origins of the name center around Captain John Yeary’s store known as Yeary’s Place. Its . . . — — Map (db m309839) HM
Dedicated December 7, 2016
Eagle Scout Project of
Nicholas Morrow
Sculptor Sondra L. Jonson
Special thank you to
Families of WWII Veterans
for their generous donation
Additional Donations and Recognition to:
Caliber . . . — — Map (db m308597) WM
Honoring Veterans of World War I & II
Sponsored by Frisco Garden Club
1948
Honoring Veterans of Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm
By the Frisco Garden Club
1996
Honoring Veterans of Global War on Terrorism and Iraq War . . . — — Map (db m308600) WM
Not so long ago an estimated 40 to 60 million bison roamed this continent in vast herds. Fed by seas of grassland prairie, the herds migrated in undulating waves from North to South with the seasons. Their numbers were not much threatened as they . . . — — Map (db m214128) HM
The battlefield cross is a symbolic representation for someone who has been killed in action. This current tradition originated during World War I and has continued in every conflict since. Comrades in arms erect the cross to show honor and . . . — — Map (db m308601) WM
The word calaboose comes from the Spanish word calabozo and literally means “dungeon”, in the Southern United States it was also a term used for a jail. The Frisco calaboose got its start in 1911 as recorded in the City Council minutes from April . . . — — Map (db m308420) HM
Built about 1911 to house the business established by 3 sons of Dr. J. D. Carpenter. This building was one of the few standing on the north side after the fire of 1922. Later it housed the Holmen Textile Co. for several years and was first site of . . . — — Map (db m191468) HM
In September 2017, the City of Frisco was designated a Purple Heart City by the Military Order of the Purple Heart organization. It is an expression of gratitude to the men and women in Frisco who were awarded the Purple Heart combat decoration. . . . — — Map (db m308603) HM WM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas to honor Corporal Hill, age 18, was serving as a U.S. Army automatic rifleman with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division on December . . . — — Map (db m308508) HM WM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas to honor Corporal Brown, age 20, was serving as a U.S. Army infantry indirect fire crewman with B Company, 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division . . . — — Map (db m308506) HM WM
Foncine was first settled near this location in the late 19th century when Robert Coleman Fisher built a general store, gristmill, cotton gin and grain elevator, serving the needs of a growing rural population, almost all involved in farming. Also . . . — — Map (db m309912) HM
Area frontier settlers William and Frances Rogers, Peter and Sarah Teel, and Elizabeth Rogers, and the Rev. Joab Biggs, a Methodist circuit-riding minister, organized this congregation in William Rogers' log home in 1848. Known as Bethel Methodist . . . — — Map (db m191459) HM
“Under the spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands…”
—The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wildsworth Longfellow
This poem was memorized by American school children into the 1950’s and reminds us that rural villages throughout . . . — — Map (db m308416) HM
Frisco Commons Park was built in 2004 and has since become one of Frisco’s premier parks. With its walking trails, playgrounds, and other amenities, the community park was designed to be a gathering place for all ages and abilities. The park is . . . — — Map (db m308592) HM
Built in 1911 to house a hardware store and undertaking business. It has been used for a wide variety of retail, service, manufacturing and storage businesses. Today it is home for Griffin Enterprises. Marker placed by Linda Griffin Feld and Mike . . . — — Map (db m191457) HM
By 1835, the under-funded provisional government of Texas offered to pay its soldiers with land. Surveying parties flooded the frontier, ingressing Native hunting grounds. Hard-fought battles and skirmishes brought no lasting victories to the . . . — — Map (db m244229) HM
Hispanic and Anglo settlers entered Texas to find a land well suited for cattle raising. English herding traditions from the East and Spanish ranching traditions from the South met in this region of vast open grasslands. Here English and Spanish . . . — — Map (db m214675) HM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas to honor Platoon Sergeant Hill, age 25, was serving in the U.S. Marine Corps with the 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division on July 21, 1944 when he died of wounds . . . — — Map (db m308518) HM WM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas, to honor Private Cecil Cleveland Waldrum, age 27. Cecil was serving in the U.S. Army in the elite First Special Service Force on February 16, 1944, when he was killed . . . — — Map (db m308588) HM WM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas to honor Private First Class Duncan, age 24, was serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps with the 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division on April 28, 1945 when he . . . — — Map (db m308511) HM WM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas to honor Private Derryberry, age 22, was serving in the U.S. Army with A Troop, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division on November 29, 1944 when he was killed in . . . — — Map (db m308512) HM WM
All Gave Some
Some Gave All
Land of the Free
Because of the Brave
Duty •
Honor •
Country
Our Nation’s Oldest Medal
United States Army •
United States Navy •
United States Marine Corps •
United States Coast Guard . . . — — Map (db m308604) WM
This replica of Frisco’s one-room schoolhouse is a model of what schools were like during the town’s early days. The schools were made of wood, usually either unpainted or painted white, and were built as a community project. Farmers in the area . . . — — Map (db m308418) HM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas to honor Seaman First Class Bolton, age 19, was serving in the U.S. Navy as a crew member on the USS Quincy (CA-39) on August 9, 1942 when he was killed in action as . . . — — Map (db m308595) HM WM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas to honor Sergeant Boatright, age 24, was serving as a U.S. Army combat engineer with B Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division on December 4, 2004 when . . . — — Map (db m308505) HM WM
Settlers traveling to this area of Texas after it opened for settlement as part of the Peters Colony found free land, clear spring water and plenty of timber. Those who decided to stay named it Lebanon and began to establish homes and farms. On . . . — — Map (db m191472) HM
Probably named for the white rock escarpment on which it was built, Rock Hill was established by December 1854 when John Moore became its first postmaster. By the early 20th century the town boasted two schools, four churches, three doctors, a grist . . . — — Map (db m191448) HM
This prairie-style farmhouse was built by Alfred Fletcher “A.F.” Smith Jr. and his wife Harriet “Lou” McKnight Smith around 1905 on land first settled by the builder’s parents Alfred Fletcher Smith Sr. and Elizabeth “Betsy” Griggs Smith in the . . . — — Map (db m308417) HM
Steam Engine Train
Nothing contributed to the westward expansion of the United States more than the railroad. In 1902, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Company, later shortened to the FRISCO line, made its debut in this town. Originally . . . — — Map (db m308415) HM
Pioneer home of T.J. Campbell. Built in Lebanon Tx. on Preston Road, 1869. Moved to Frisco to be on railroad and mail line, 1902.
Constructed of lumber hauled by wagon train from Jefferson. Has cypress siding and windows. Gingerbread added . . . — — Map (db m191450) HM
In 1902 this t-shaped house was pulled from Lebanon over log rollers by a steam engine. It has served as a Dr's office, rooming house, home to many & Randy's Steak House since 1996. Marker placed by Don and Kathy Burks — — Map (db m191454) HM
This Frisco Commons Park Trail is dedicated by the residents of Frisco, Texas to honor Technical Sergeant Johnson, age 25, was serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a top turret gunner on a B-24 Liberator aircraft with the 714th Bombardment . . . — — Map (db m308587) HM WM
The land this park rests on runs through an ecoregion known as the Blackland Prairie. The Blacklands consist of about 12.6 million acres, extending from the Red River through Central Texas as far south as San Antonio. The prairie was named after . . . — — Map (db m308513) HM
Each night the trail crew would seek a camp near water for the cattle. The cook often pointed the tongue of the wagon toward the north star to guide the crew the next day. Once the cattle were bedded down in an open area, the men took turns as . . . — — Map (db m214088) HM
The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company was established in 1849, and its expanding rail lines reached the Frisco area in the early 1900s. The first train rolled through town on March 20, 1902, as the tracks from Denison to Carrollton were . . . — — Map (db m308411) HM
Known variously as the Rio, Gem and Queen. This theater built in 1919 was destroyed by fire in 1922. Left standing was the brick arch and it was embedded into the building that soon rose from the ashes. Weekend movies were enjoyed here for almost 40 . . . — — Map (db m191455) HM
In 1838 the Republic of Texas Congress appropriated money for construction of a north-south road opening the northern Texas area to trade. The project leader, Colonel William G. Cooke, followed an existing Indian trail which reached from the Red . . . — — Map (db m191471) HM
The legendary Texas Longhorn, the first uniquely American breed of cattle, has its roots in the blending of cultures and cattle during the heyday of the Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1845. Spanish Retinto cattle were introduced into the San Antonio . . . — — Map (db m214083) HM
During the Texas cattle drives of 1867-1890, the typical crew had a trail boss, ten cowboys, a cook, and a horse wrangler. The trail boss, who found good water for the cattle and chose where they would bed down each night, might earn up to $100 per . . . — — Map (db m214091) HM
Commercial cattle-trailing companies delivered more than half of all Texas cattle driven to the Kansas railheads. Many large ranches did not want to spare their men for a trail drive lasting one or two months. Smaller ranches had to rely upon family . . . — — Map (db m214674) HM
Texas cattle trailing to Louisiana developed as a business in the Galveston/Houston area during the Spanish period (ending in 1821) and the Mexican period (1821-1836). The process continued under the Republic of Texas (1836-1845), when the "Texas . . . — — Map (db m214676) HM
Long before the City of Frisco existed, American Indians including the Wichita, Tonkawa and a few small bands of the Delaware called North Texas home. Comanches, Apaches, Kickapoos, and Kiowa also occasionally traveled here from the west to trade . . . — — Map (db m308591) HM
This land was located adjacent to the original town of Frisco, laid out by the Blackland Townsite Company in 1902. Ownership changed several times before the one-story, bungalow-style home was built about 1920. Walter Dodson “Dot” and Thelma Kerley . . . — — Map (db m309730) HM
Rev. William and Abbie Allen built this Queen Anne-style house circa 1903. Rev. Allen, a circuit-riding preacher, state senator, and author, and Abbie were pioneers, missionaries, and educators who played pivotal roles in Frisco’s early history. . . . — — Map (db m309750) HM
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