On University Avenue at 11th Street (U.S. 190), on the right when traveling north on University Avenue.
The first building erected in Huntsville is thought to have been the log trading post built near this site about 1835-36 by the town's founder, Pleasant Gray, in order to barter with the Bedias and other friendly tribes of Indians in the vicinity. . . . — — Map (db m180329) HM
On West Main Street (Farm to Market Road 230) 0.1 miles west of Cemetery Street, on the right when traveling west.
The first documented burial in this cemetery, that of Phebe A. Martin, took place in 1875, three years after the town of Trinity was laid out on the George W. Wilson survey. Nearly 100 graves, many of them from an 1897-98 diphtheria epidemic, date . . . — — Map (db m206842) HM
On U.S. 287 0.7 miles west of Farm to Market Road 358, on the right when traveling north.
In 1857 Albert Holley (b. 1828), his mother and two brothers, migrated to Houston County from Alabama. While the others journeyed to Texas by boat, he brought the family's supplies overland by wagon with 137 slaves. By 1860 he and his wife Julia . . . — — Map (db m128926) HM
On North Kenley Street at W. 6th Street on North Kenley Street.
The Glenwood Cemetery has served the residents of Groveton for more than 100 years. The Trinity County Lumber Company established the town of Groveton by the spring of 1882. In the fall of that year, the town became the seat of government for . . . — — Map (db m286922) HM
On U.S. 287 east of Sumpter Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling west.
The legislature of the State of Texas created Trinity County out of Houston County in 1850. A group of seven commissioners was appointed to locate and survey a site for the seat of government. The town of Sumpter was founded in this area, near the . . . — — Map (db m286925) HM
On First Street (U.S. 287) at South Main Street, on the left when traveling east on First Street.
Trinity County was formally organized by an act of the Texas legislature on February 11, 1850. Soon after, county residents chose between two sites for the establishment of a county seat, which was named Sumpter (5 mi. E). Government offices were . . . — — Map (db m120967) HM
On First Street (U.S. 287) at Main Street, on the left when traveling east on First Street.
The Trinity County and Sabine Pass Land and Railway Company laid out the new town of Groveton in 1881, when the I&GN Railroad came through the area. The following year, Trinity County voters chose it as their seat of government. The company . . . — — Map (db m53644) HM
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