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 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 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 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 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 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
Near Cemetery Road (County Route 226) at Westminster Street, on the right when traveling west.
This historic graveyard reflects the heritage of Tehuacana, an early Texas town founded in the 1840s by John Boyd (1796-1873). Elected from Sabine County to the First and Second Congresses of the Republic of Texas, Boyd moved to this part of the . . . — — Map (db m292171) HM
On North Lacy Drive at Stanfield Road, on the right when traveling north on North Lacy Drive.
Widow of Jacob Walker, said to have been last man to die in the Alamo. Born in Louisiana in 1811. Married and came to Texas 1829, and to this area 1844.
Received Republic of Texas Land Grant No. 1, Sabine County, a league and labor E. of the . . . — — Map (db m268549) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 South Main Street (State Highway 429) at Buffington Lane, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street.
Mathew Caldwell was called Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution. Caldwell’s daughters Lucy Ann and Martha Elizabeth came to Grimes County from Gonzales. Martha E. Married Isham Dixon Davis and settled N. Grimes County at Mesa, near Iola, by 1846. . . . — — Map (db m111903) 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 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 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 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 Farm to Market Road 2991 at County Road 2153, on the right when traveling north on Road 2991.
Organized 1839 by the Rev. Moses Spear, for whom it was named. First church, a log building, was erected on a 1.7-acre site owned by William McMahon. The leading charter member was the man who had founded first permanent Methodist church in Texas . . . — — Map (db m290453) 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 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
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
