On Old Highway 8 at Old Highway 96, on the left when traveling north on Old Highway 8.
Present Brookeland is located in an area served by pioneer Methodist preachers beginning in the 1840s. During that era, circuit riding preachers conducted worship services in local homes. Thomas Jefferson Jacks was one of the earliest to minister . . . — — Map (db m175165) HM
On Farm to Market Road 3448 0.2 miles north of State Highway 21, on the right when traveling north.
This congregation began soon after the end of the Civil War in the Freedmen's community known as Weeks Quarters (about 2 mi. S). Early prayer meetings and worship services were conducted in homes.
Led by the Rev. M. McBerry, the congregation . . . — — Map (db m30874) HM
On State Highway 21 south of Lee Arnold Road, on the right when traveling east.
In this vicinity was historic Spanish rancho called El Lobanillo. Pueblo of Gil Ybarbo (1729-1809), where his ill mother and other refugees remained when Spain evacuated colonists from Western Louisiana and East Texas in 1773. Granted 1794 to Juan . . . — — Map (db m175251) HM
On State Highway 21 just east of Geneva Sexton Road (Farm to Market Road 330), on the right when traveling west.
Kings Highway
Camino Real
Old San Antonio Road
Marked by The
Daughters of The
American Revolution
and The State of Texas
A.D. 1918 — — Map (db m221427) HM
On McMahans Chapel Road (Route 35 Spur) 1.3 miles south of Texas Highway 21, on the right when traveling south.
The oldest Methodist church having a continuous existence in Texas. Organized as a "religious society," 1833, at the home of Colonel Samuel McMahan by the Rev. James P. Stevenson (1808-1885). As a Methodist Church, July 1834, by the Rev. Henry . . . — — Map (db m221230) HM
On State Highway 87 0.3 miles north of Willow Oak Drive, on the left when traveling south.
As early as the 1850s, families settled here along South Prong Creek. Except for a brief period, a post office operated from 1854 until 1937. The community also supported a school until 1953. It is believed residents made burials at the community . . . — — Map (db m107171) HM
On Mann Street (State Highway 87) at Main Street (State Highway 184), on the left when traveling south on Mann Street.
The First Baptist Church of Hemphill has served the community since 1858, when Hemphill was organized. A number families from other states settled Hemphill at that time, including the five families that established the church. The organizing members . . . — — Map (db m107128) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 184) at South Texas Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
In 1858, Sabine County organized the community of Hemphill, named for Texas Supreme Court Justice John Hemphill (1803 – 1862). An election determined that the county seat would be moved from Milam to this new settlement in the center of Sabine . . . — — Map (db m107166) HM
On South Texas Street 0.2 miles south of Worth Street (County Highway 83), on the left when traveling south.
The burials in this cemetery reflect the early history of Hemphill as a developing commercial center and seat of government. The oldest marked grave dates from 1867, nine years after the town was founded. The early gravestone marks the burial site . . . — — Map (db m107223) HM
On Milam Street 0.1 miles north of Sabine Street (Farm to Market Road 83), on the left when traveling north.
In 1858, the same year Hemphill became county seat of Sabine County, local residents formed a Methodist Society. Brother John C. Wollem preached at the early gatherings and served until 1870. The young church held services in the Methodist . . . — — Map (db m290428) HM
On Sabine Street (State Highway 87) at Farm to Market Road 83, on the left when traveling south on Sabine Street.
On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated in the skies over Texas and came to rest in Sabine County. Hundreds of volunteers undertook the difficult task of recovering Columbia and her Crew.
This monument serves as a reminder . . . — — Map (db m107123) HM
On Sabine Street (State Highway 87) at Farm to Market Road 83, on the left when traveling south on Sabine Street.
Her crew
Rick D. Husband
William C. McCool
David M. Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Michael P. Anderson
Laurel B. Clark
Ilan Ramon
On February 1, 2003, the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 gave their lives in their final mission to . . . — — Map (db m107124) HM
On Macedonia Lane 0.1 miles south of Old Sabinetown Road (Farm to Market Road 83), on the right when traveling south.
The Macedonia Baptist Church was established on this site in 1885. Though it is likely that there are burials dating from that time, the earliest marked grave is that of Olin Robertson (1828-1906). Ten graves are those of World War I veterans, and . . . — — Map (db m290427) HM
On Mann Street (State Highway 87) at Main Street (State Highway 184), on the right when traveling south on Mann Street.
This marks the site of the former home of Hampton and Mary Pratt, pioneer Sabine County residents, and among the very first founders and settlers of Hemphill; the Pratts came from Alabama and established the first general merchandise business in . . . — — Map (db m107125) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 184) at South Oak Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
Sabine County, one of the original 23 Texas counties, is on the eastern border of Texas. It is bound by and named for the Sabine River, which separates the state from Louisiana. Originally, the Ais tribe of the Caddo Indians lived in the area. By . . . — — Map (db m107165) HM
On Worth Street (Farm to Market Road 83) at South Oak Street, on the right when traveling west on Worth Street.
A borderland between Spain and the United States, 1803-1819...Entry for many Anglo-American colonists and travelers after 1820, first included in the municipality of Nacogdoches; After 1832 in the municipality of San Augustine; On December 15, 1835, . . . — — Map (db m240814) HM
On South Oak Street at Worth Street (Farm to Market Road 83), on the left when traveling north on South Oak Street.
An 1858 election called for Sabine County offices to be moved from Milam (7 Mi. N) to this more central location. The new county seat, Hemphill, was named for former Texas Supreme Court Justice John Hemphill. The first courthouse at this site burned . . . — — Map (db m107164) HM
On South Texas Street at Worth Street (Farm to Market Road 83), on the right when traveling north on South Texas Street.
Sabine County commissioners contracted for this two-story Victorian jail building in 1903. It was completed the following year during the county judgeship of James T. Peace. Bricks for the eterior were supplied from the local kiln of Henry Huffman. . . . — — Map (db m107170) HM
On Main Street at S Oak Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
Erected to the memory of the Sabine County Texas Boys who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War. 1914-1918
Mack Isom •
Leo Vickers •
Dock Minton •
Marvin Arnold •
Nolan Modaniel •
Elijah Ferguson •
Marvin Mott •
Tommie Bell •
Cram . . . — — Map (db m290430) WM
On Edwards Street (Farm to Market Road 1175) at Ball Park Street, on the right when traveling west on Edwards Street.
The community of East Mayfield was built here in 1912 and named for Texas Railroad Commissioner Earle B. Mayfield. Formed around the large lumber mill built by Hiram Knox of the Knox Lumber Company, the town was incorporated in 1914. It had a . . . — — Map (db m241810) HM
On Starr Street (State Highway 184) 0.1 miles north of Rice Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1946, W.O. Stringer, County Judge and owner of Stringer Funeral Home in Jasper, opened a second facility in Hemphill, on the corner of Worth Street and FM 2971 (Beckcom Road). Stringer hired Tennessee native John Byron Starr, Sr. (1909-1978) to . . . — — Map (db m290429) HM
On Market Street at North Oak Street, on the right when traveling west on Market Street.
The son of an early Sabine County family,
William Franklin Goodrich graduated in the
first class of the University of Texas Law
School in 1886. The next year, he wed Bertha
Sutor of Travis County and returned to
Hemphill, where he was a lawyer, . . . — — Map (db m221464) HM
On Ensign Drive north of Pike Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Born in Kentucky of Scottish ancestry, Alfred Davenport Oliphint (1799-1880) married Jemima Allen in Mississippi around 1821, and the two became parents to several children. After Jemima's death in 1835, Oliphint married Martha Ann Causey . . . — — Map (db m290393) HM
On Texas Route 87 0.1 miles north of Route 21, on the right when traveling north.
Located in the rural community of Milam, one of the oldest
settled towns in Texas originally called Red Mount, the
Bethany Baptist Church was established before 1879 at a
location near the King's Highway (El Camino Real de los Tejas). In 1901, . . . — — Map (db m221471) HM
On State Highway 21, on the right when traveling west.
Charles Alexander Nethery, Sr. established a general merchandise near this site in 1880. Nethery married Amanda Francis Speights in 1884 and the couple had twelve children. When fire destroyed the first general merchandise store in 1915, the current . . . — — Map (db m30701) HM
On Vernon Street North (Old Milam Cemetery Road) north of State Highway 21, on the left when traveling north.
Came to Texas in 1835. Born in Albermarle County, Virginia, July 15, 1781. Soldier in the Creek Indian War and the Texas War for Independence, 1836. Died December 4, 1854. His wife Nancy Dowell Weatherred Born in Virginia, 1791; Died in Sabine . . . — — Map (db m290425) HM
On Ensign Drive north of Pike Drive, on the right when traveling north.
James Taylor Gaines (1776-1856) was an early Texas entrepreneur, adventurer, Republic of Texas congressman, and signee of the Texas Declaration of Independence. He was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, to Thomas and Susanah Strother Gaines. In . . . — — Map (db m290386) HM
On State Highway 21 east of State Highway 87, on the right when traveling east.
John C. Hale, one of nine patriots killed at the Battle of San Jacinto, was born in Scott County, Virginia on April 3, 1806. He married Barshaba Miller in his home state in 1830, and by 1835 moved with his wife and children to Sabine County. They . . . — — Map (db m29876) HM
On Highway 21 west of Vernon State Route South, on the right when traveling west.
Las Boregas Creek formed the eastern boundary of the 1794 Spanish land grant to Juan Ignacio Pifermo, making this grant the oldest in Sabine County. El Camino de los Tejas, a portion of El Camino Real - the main road into Spanish Texas - crossed . . . — — Map (db m175253) HM
On State Highway 87 0.4 miles south of Clara Lane, on the left when traveling south.
First Chief Justice of Sabine County, Republic of Texas, Parker was born in Georgia. He came here from Louisiana in 1822, settling at this site which was on land later included in his Headright Grant from the Republic. In 1836 he served in the . . . — — Map (db m107121) HM
On Route 35 Spur 2 miles south of Highway 21, on the right when traveling south.
McMahan Chapel was established in September 1833 as a Methodist class by the Rev. James P. Stevenson in the home of Col. Samuel Doak McMahan. In order to comply with Mexican law, the 48 members were organized as a class. Upon Texas independence from . . . — — Map (db m30722) HM
On Meador Cemetery Lane 0.4 miles south of U.S. 87.
Virginia-born Dr. Richard A. Meador (1808-1853) and his wife Mary Ann (Tucker) (1818-1864) came to Sabine County in 1844 and built a home near this site. Their young child Sarah died in 1850 and the family buried her in their garden since there was . . . — — Map (db m290414) HM
On State Highway 21 west of State Route 87, on the right when traveling west.
Founded in 1828 as Red Mound Named in 1835 for Benjamin Rush Milam Seat of justice of Sabine municipality, 1835; of Sabine County, 1837-58. Incorporated December 29, 1837. Internal Revenue post during the Republic headquarters of the Quartermaster's . . . — — Map (db m29875) HM
On State Highway 21 west of State Highway 87, on the right when traveling west.
The first known description of Milam was given by Stephen Fuller Austin in his diary as he camped along El Camino Real de los Tejas in 1821. Because of the town's close proximity to the trail, Milam saw many explorers, veterans, and pioneers . . . — — Map (db m106654) HM
On Vernon Street North 0.3 miles north of State Highway 21, on the left when traveling north.
Milam, the first county seat of Sabine County has a history of travelers and visitors stretching back centuries, Native Americans and Spanish explorers, soldiers and missionaries passed through and often camped on Las Boregas Creek. Texian settlers . . . — — Map (db m290419) HM
On State Highway 21 east of State Highway 87, on the right when traveling east.
Many pioneers belonged to the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, an order active in education. Among Masons settling in this area by 1845 were Republic of Texas leaders William Clark, James Gaines, D.S. Kaufman, Willis H. Landrum, and F.M. . . . — — Map (db m29917) HM
On Palamino Drive at Pinto Dr N, on the right when traveling west on Palamino Drive.
Alfred D. Oliphint came to Texas and received land grants in 1839 and 1844 in Sabine County. He served as Justice of the Peace and County Judge, and in 1879 deeded five acres of land to the Methodist Episcopal Church. This cemetery, located adjacent . . . — — Map (db m290409) HM
On State Highway 87 0.2 miles south of Davidson Road, on the right when traveling south.
Rebecca Hopkins Speights (b. 1796) arrived in Sabine County in 1842 as a widow with four sons and a daughter. She owned about 250 acres including this site, which became a cemetery with her burial in 1857. Sited near the Speights' home, the cemetery . . . — — Map (db m290426) HM
On Ensign Drive north of Pike Drive, on the right when traveling north.
The Gaines-Oliphint House, a two story, double-pen, hand hewn log house was constructed circa 1818 by James Taylor Gaines for his third wife's parents, identical to the Gaines Ferrying House, built in 1815 located about three-fourths of a mile . . . — — Map (db m290388) HM
On State Highway 21 west of State Highway 87, on the right when traveling west.
The Old San Antonio Road, popularly known as El Camino Real, is one of the state’s oldest and most significant of the trans-Texas routes and most famous of the early historic trails.
Camino Real (royal road), variously known as the King’s . . . — — Map (db m107118) HM
On State Highway 21 at Route 35 Spur, on the right when traveling east on State Highway 21.
Two Miles Southeast To
McMahan’s Chapel
The oldest Methodist church having a continuous existence in Texas. Organized as a "religious society" September, 1833 by the Reverend James P. Stevenson 1808-1885, as a Methodist Church, July 1834 by . . . — — Map (db m221069) HM
On South Temple Street (State Highway 1) near Sloan Street.
Like many Sabine County communities, Pineland was established as a result of the arrival of the logging industry to the east Texas pine forests. A lumber camp was first recorded at this site along the route of the newly-constructed Gulf, Beaumont & . . . — — Map (db m175166) HM
On State Highway 21, on the left when traveling east.
Named by the Highway Departments
of Louisiana and Texas
in honor of two brothers
James Gaines,
Who owned and operated a ferry line
1819 to 1844 and was a signer of the
Texas Declaration of Independence, and
General Pendleton . . . — — Map (db m30754) HM
On State Highway 21, on the right when traveling east.
Site of
Historic Crossing on the Sabine River
Erected by
Sabine River Chapter
Texas Society of the
National Society Daughters
of the American Colonists
Mrs. Roy E. Massengill,
Chapter Regent
Mrs. Walter M. . . . — — Map (db m30763) HM
On State Highway 21 east of Cedar Grove Road, on the left when traveling east.
Site of crossing on the Sabine River which has
been used for more than 400
years. First by the Indians,
later by the Spaniards, the
French, and other Europeans,
and more than 50,000 Anglo
Americans who came to settle
in Texas prior to . . . — — Map (db m30766) HM
On State Highway 87 0.1 miles east of Scrappin Valley Road, on the left when traveling east.
Yellowpine was one of many logging communities founded in the East Texas pine forests during the early 20th century. After the death of J.C. Berryman on October 2, 1932, local residents received permission from the Temple Lumber Company to inter . . . — — Map (db m290431) HM
