On First Street (U.S. 287) at Main Street, on the left when traveling east on First Street.
Named for a grove of black jack oak trees, Groveton resulted from the establishment of the Trinity County Lumber Company sawmill in 1882. After the Trinity and Sabine Railroad Company built a sixty-five mile branch line through area forests, the . . . — — Map (db m53396) 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
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 Farm to Market Road 2781, 0.2 miles north of U.S. 287, on the right when traveling north.
Site of
Steele's Academy
Named in honor of its
founder and principal
D. W. Steele
of New Hampshire Academy
Attended by students from
many counties — — Map (db m128925) HM
On Farm to Market Road 355 at Farm to Market Road 356, on the right when traveling north on Road 355.
An important shipping point
established in the late fifties
Named in commemoration of
a naval station of Russia
Declined in importance after railroads
reached this region — — Map (db m128923) HM
On South Maple Street at Stadium Street, on the left when traveling north on South Maple Street.
This park was developed following a gift of 6.7 acres by the Black Veteran's Association to the City of Trinity in 1980 as a memorial to Black World War Veterans of Trinity County. Land was donated for the purpose of a park and recreation complex . . . — — Map (db m206837) HM WM
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 West Caroline Street at South Elm Street on West Caroline Street.
Born in Trinity on June 1, 1933, Charles Nesbitt "Charlie" Wilson served as a United States Naval officer, a state legislator and a United States Representative from Texas' Second Congressional District. Growing up, Wilson attended Trinity public . . . — — Map (db m206862) HM
On East Caroline Street (State Highway 94) 1.3 miles east of North Robb Street (State Highway 19).
A public work relief program from 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided jobs for young, unemployed or unmarried men during the Great Depression. Part of the New Deal, the CCC implemented a general natural resource conservation . . . — — Map (db m206877) HM
On North Robb Street (State Highway 19) at East Caroline Street, on the right when traveling north on North Robb Street.
Originally known as the Trinity Baptist Church in Christ, this congregation was formally organized on January 23, 1876, by the Rev. D.S. Snodgrass. Charter members included J.R. and Rachel Shaw, Mrs. S.J. Knox, O.G. Shaw, Dr. and Mrs. J.M. Arnold, . . . — — Map (db m206875) HM
On West Caroline Street at South Elm Street on West Caroline Street.
This congregation was organized in 1872, the same year the city of Trinity was founded. The Rev. John Woolam is credited with the establishment of the church and also served as its first itinerate minister. Woolam held services in Trinity one Sunday . . . — — Map (db m206867) HM
On Maple Street at Elizabeth Street, on the left when traveling north on Maple Street.
Built about 1888, this was the home of local merchant Isaac Newton Parker (1841-1918) and his family. Parker, a Confederate Civil War veteran, and his first wife, Mary C. Ashley (d. 1905) reared eight children here. After Mary's death Parker married . . . — — Map (db m232059) HM
Near West Main Street (Farm to Market Road 230) 0.1 miles west of Cemetery Street.
Mississippi natives Jacob Pope Barnes (1832-1877) and Elizabeth Ann Rankin (1834-1912) were wed on June 21, 1860. They moved to Texas in 1866 and came to Trinity in 1872. Jacob opened a mercantile store in partnership with Frank Lister and was . . . — — Map (db m206843) HM
On South Robb Street (State Highway 19) at West Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling south on South Robb Street.
Trinity's first schoolhouse was a one-room log structure built in 1872 near Cedar Grove Cemetery. A two-story frame schoolhouse that stood on this site from 1897 to 1911 was moved several blocks northwest to serve African American students. Under . . . — — Map (db m52983) HM
On South Maple Street, 0.1 miles south of West San Jacinto Street, on the right when traveling south.
Married after 1876 to Mollie Turner (1837-1919), daughter of an early Trinity pioneer, Ranald McDonald (1848-1931) settled on his land along the Trinity River. He bought this lot in 1890 and hired John Denton Gibbs to erect this Victorian house in . . . — — Map (db m206839) HM
On South Railroad Street at East Main Street on South Railroad Street.
The Gibson family was among the early settlers of Trinity County, with George Gibson settling in Sumpter in 1857 and later marrying Elzirah Ann White. They and their family moved to the new railroad and lumber center of Trinity Station in 1872. . . . — — Map (db m232050) HM
On Prospect Drive (State Highway 19) at Pine Valley Drive, on the right when traveling north on Prospect Drive.
In 1907 Thompson Brothers Lumber Company built a mill and 37 acre pond at Trinity. Texas Long Leaf Lumber Company which started at Willard in 1912, bought Thompson Brothers Trinity Mill in 1922. Under management of Paul Sanderson for 22 years, the . . . — — Map (db m206899) HM
On South Robb Street (State Highway 19) at Old Huntsville Highway (Farm to Market Road 1617), on the left when traveling north on South Robb Street.
The Trinity Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church traces its beginnings to 1882 when it was established as a mission church. The Reverend W.M. Apling was appointed as the first pastor.
Land for a church site was donated in 1887 by the New . . . — — Map (db m206834) HM
On West Main Street (Farm to Market Road 230) at South Maple Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street.
On September 28, 1881, the Trinity & Sabine Railway Co. was chartered as a logging tram connecting with the International & Great Northern (I&GN) Railroad. The line was intended to run east to the Sabine River but only extended as far as Colmesneil. . . . — — Map (db m206840) HM
