101 ► Texas, Navarro County, Rice — 7208 — Haynes Memorial Methodist Church —

The Rev. William Vaughn founded this church in 1874. The charter members were the families of J.M. Bartlett, B.M. and Mrs. J.A. Clopton, L.B. and W.D. Haynie, W.M. Holmes, J.M. Mitcham, E.E. and I.B. Sessions, and J.A. Ward. This site was donated . . . — — Map (db m164897) HM

102 ► Texas, Navarro County, Rice — 11627 — Rice —

Settlers began arriving at this site in the late 1860s, mostly from the nearby settlement of Porter's Bluff, which had been devastated by a flood in 1866. By 1872, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, which bypassed Porter's Bluff, was routed . . . — — Map (db m164896) HM

103 ► Texas, Navarro County, Rice — 11628 — Rice Cemetery —

The Rice community was settled during the late 1860s and was named for William Marsh Rice, who donated land for the town's railroad station and later founded Rice University. In 1868, the citizens of the community were granted land for a cemetery . . . — — Map (db m164900) HM

104 ► Texas, Navarro County, Rice — 15116 — The Fortson Family —

Members of the Fortson family came to Texas from Mississippi and settled in Navarro County in the 1840s. Civil War veteran James T. Fortson wed Ida Clayton, daughter of another pioneer area family, in 1867, and they moved to the Rice area in 1872. . . . — — Map (db m164899) HM

105 ► Texas, Navarro County, Richland — 7199 — First Methodist Church of Richland —

Founded 1847 on remote frontier, by efforts of the Rev. J.E. Ferguson and the Rev. J.G. Hardin. In 1966 the American Association of Methodist Historical Societies honored Richland as the oldest continuing congregation in Central Texas Annual . . . — — Map (db m164954) HM

106 ► Texas, Navarro County, Richland — Flag Memorial Richland Cemetery —

In Memory of 1st Lt. Charles W. Hunter U.S. 8th Air Force 1942 - 1945 Flag Lighting Honors Our Veterans April 17, 2015 — — Map (db m164971) WM

107 ► Texas, Navarro County, Richland — 11629 — Richland Cemetery — (Established 1895) —

In town founded after the Houston & Texas Central Railroad bypassed older villages. An early store was moved from Pisgah Ridge (5 Mi. W) by J.T. and Prudence Anderson Patrick, who settled in Richland in 1870. They had three sons, Walter, Jim, and . . . — — Map (db m164960) HM

108 ► Texas, Navarro County, Spring Hill — 11638 — Spring Hill — Oldest Community in Navarro County —

The springs at this site supplied water to Indians for centuries before white settlers arrived. In 1838 Dr. George Washington Hill (1814-60) built a trading post near the springs, and in October of that year a skirmish between a surveying party and . . . — — Map (db m214224) HM

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109 ► Texas, Navarro County, Streetman — 9865 — Cade Cemetery —

This burial ground originally served the pioneer Cade community, which was established near this site in the 1870s. Named for Cade Hayes, an early area resident, the settlement included the surrounding farmland of southern Navarro County and . . . — — Map (db m167945) HM

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