On Farm to Market Road 2339 0.5 miles west of Farm to Market Road 4712, on the right when traveling west.
The first recorded burial on this site was that of Asbury Lowery (1836-1855). The new burial ground was named in his memory. In 1863, Prairie Flower (1858-1863), the young daughter of celebrated Comanche Indian captive Cynthia Ann Parker and . . . — — Map (db m105485) HM
On this site the
Cherokee Chief Bowles was killed on July 16, 1839 while leading 800 Indians of various tribes in battle against 500 Texans. The last engagement between Cherokees and whites in Texas. — — Map (db m91605) HM
Oral tradition links this church to the original County Line Baptist Church of 1851, the earliest recorded attempt of area African American families to create a community of worship. County Line Colored Missionary Baptist Church was founded in 1872 . . . — — Map (db m31867) HM
On Farm to Market Road 279 west of Farm to Market Road 314, on the left when traveling west.
According to available records the town of Edom has occupied three different locations and is the third oldest town in Van Zandt County. James Coltharp and A. C. Beall settled six miles east of here in 1849, built a sawmill, and named the town . . . — — Map (db m293972) HM
On Farm to Market Road 314 (at milepost 314) at Farm to Market Road 297, on the left when traveling west on Farm to Market Road 314.
Officially organized in 1874 with the Rev. D. L. Lake as first pastor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South of Edom is believed to have been founded as early as 1859, relocating to this site in the 1920s. A singing school began in 1866 and a . . . — — Map (db m293970) HM
On Farm to Market Road 314 0.2 miles north of Farm to Market Road 279, on the left when traveling north.
One of the first Baptist churches in Van Zandt County, this congregation traces its origins to the 1850s when early settlers organized a Baptist church in this vicinity. Elder J. J. Whitmore was the first pastor. Membership increased as new families . . . — — Map (db m293969) HM
Near County Road 4915 at County Road 4929, on the right when traveling south.
The first grave here was that of 19-year-old Elizabeth Carolina Piles, who died May 4, 1856. Buried nearby are her sister Melissa, who died two days later, and her father John Piles (1802-57), on whose land the cemetery was located. Included among . . . — — Map (db m310450) HM
On Farm to Market Road 279 1.5 miles west of County Road 4818, on the right when traveling east.
Stephen Ingram, who served in the U.S. Army in the second Seminole War (1835-1842), moved to Van Zandt County with his wife Elizabeth (McKleroy) and their family in 1850, building log homes on this site by the Tyler-Porter's Bluff Road. Stephen . . . — — Map (db m310457) HM
On Farm to Market Road 279 at Farm to Market Road 314, on the right when traveling west on Farm to Market Road 279.
Artist Doug Brown (1943-2020) opened Edom's first pottery shop in 1971 and began making original creations. Brown's shop used a distinctive color technique, and the store begame a heaven for other craftsmen to learn and perfect their trade. His . . . — — Map (db m293976) HM
On State Highway 64 1 mile east of County Road 4814, on the left when traveling west.
Built 1854 by B. H. Hambrick, from Virginia. Headquarters for 3,000-acre property. Colonial architecture. Pegged mortise and tenon construction. Joists are 48-ft. timbers. Bricks were handmade on the plantation. Site, halfway between Dallas and . . . — — Map (db m310455) HM
On Farm to Market Road 279, on the left when traveling west.
As was the case in so many small Texas towns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the cotton gin in Edom was a major element in the economy. First opened at this site in 1918 by Ro Dike, who moved his ginning operation here from Davidson (3 . . . — — Map (db m28115) HM
On Farm to Market Road 2339 west of Farm to Market Road 279, on the right when traveling west.
First mapped in 1846 and 1849 by state surveyors John Lawler and Samuel Huffer, this trail may pre-date Mexican rule. Used as a military road and a cattle trail, it extended from Tyler in Smith County to Porter's Bluff in northwestern Navarro . . . — — Map (db m293965) HM
