Along with the abundance of natural resources, the growth of commercial agriculture and the distribution capability of the railroad, the establishment of banking supplied the final ingredient needed to solidify the development of Longview's . . . — — Map (db m89067) HM
Because of you, I am here
Because of you, I am able to live freely
Yet I do not know you
And I have not done anything for you
But there you stand, ready to fight
And there you are prepared to die
For me
You've fought before . . . — — Map (db m296092) WM
Before the United States entry into World War II following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, ninety-five percent of the crude oil delivered to East Coast refineries was transported by tanker ships. Ninety percent of that oil originated . . . — — Map (db m89033) HM
Established in 1917, Boy Scout Troop 201 is one of the oldest continuously operating troops in the state and the nation. On Feb. 19, 1917, the original charter application for Troop 1 (later becoming troop 201) was filed, with 29 boys registered. . . . — — Map (db m290338) HM
Thomas Mitchell Campbell (1856-1923), a native of Rusk, worked in the Gregg County Clerk's Office in Longview before becoming a lawyer in 1878, the same year he married Fannie Bruner. This small frame cottage served as their first home. Campbell was . . . — — Map (db m290281) HM
Longview News-Journal Publisher Carl Estes successfully led a civic effort to bring R.G. LeTourneau's excavator manufacturing company here. An ardent lay evangelist, LeTourneau also established a technical institute on the site of the former Harmon . . . — — Map (db m89267) HM
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed while serving with the U.S. military.
1782 Military Order of
the Purple Heart 1932 — — Map (db m296091) WM
The decade of the 1970s saw complete integration of the Longview Independent School District. For the first time, African-Americans were elected to the Gregg County Commissioners Court, City Council and School Board. In May 1970, Longview celebrated . . . — — Map (db m89277) HM
Gregg County was formed in 1873, and Longview was chosen as county seat. The first temporary courthouse was a small building at the corner of Fredonia and Tyler streets. It soon proved inadequate, however, and another temporary courthouse was set . . . — — Map (db m89019) HM
May 23, 1894–A bloody day in early Longview. Bill Dalton, leader of armed gang presented a note for money at First National Bank. A gunfight erupted when Sheriff Jack Howard, City Marshall Mat Muckleroy and citizens resisted. Three local men-- . . . — — Map (db m89022) HM
David Sutton Meredith was born on February 2, 1869 in Brunswick County, Virginia. Meredith came to Rusk County, Texas in 1891 and married Minnie Burr Fisher, a native of Berlin, Tennessee. They moved to Longview in 1895. In November 1916, Meredith . . . — — Map (db m290331) HM
David Sutton Meredith Jr. was born in Longview on July 22, 1902. After graduating from the University of Texas, he began practicing law in Longview in 1926. That same year, he was elected County Judge of Gregg County. He served one term and then . . . — — Map (db m290332) HM
In response to the East Texas oil boom, Delta Drilling Company was founded in 1931 by Bob Stacy, Sam Dorfman, and Joseph Zeppa. Originally housed in an apartment at this site, the firm moved to Tyler in 1937. Delta drilled many of the oil wells . . . — — Map (db m89020) HM
To serve the growing population (2,034 residents by 1900), a volunteer fire department was organized in 1855. Like many other volunteer fire departments of that era, it was a hobby and social club for young civic leaders. The department was based . . . — — Map (db m89193) HM
In 1889, the Centre Presbyterian Church formed to serve as a school and place of worship for the growing
Elderville community. A burial site formed behind the church with charter members among the earliest interments. There were 12 graves by 1920. . . . — — Map (db m266768) HM
The rich farming land and timber forests in what is now known as Gregg County was first settled in 1835 under the Republic of Mexico and then under the Republic of Texas. In 1838, the republic began to issue land grants and, by 1858, the area was . . . — — Map (db m290269) HM
By 1920, Longview boasted 9 1/2 miles of paved streets, concrete sidewalks, electric street lights, municipal garbage collection and a paid fire department with the state's first two pumping trucks. In 1920, the Longview Rotary Club was organized as . . . — — Map (db m89262) HM
Built in 1910 to house the Citizens National Bank, this structure is the only example of classical revival commercial architecture in Longview. Designed by noted architect and educator Samuel J. Blocker, the Everett Building was constructed by . . . — — Map (db m89023) HM
Constructed in 1871 for hardware merchant Franklin L. Whaley and his wife Mary Caroline Rogers, this was one of the earliest homes built in Longview. Five generations of the Whaley family have lived here. Built in a central hall configuration with . . . — — Map (db m218647) HM
The end of World War II ushered in a long period of national prosperity, and Longview thrived thanks to the East Texas Oil Field and associated natural gas. Construction in Longview during the 1950s rivaled or exceeded that of the 1930s. Major . . . — — Map (db m89275) HM
Early Victorian cottage built 1898 by John Finch on site of family's log cabin. Descendents active in community life.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1967 — — Map (db m291174) HM
In 1871, fifteen local citizens gathered together in a residence to form a church congregation, thus founding the First Baptist Church of Longview. The first white frame building was erected in 1874 on property deeded to the church by the Texas . . . — — Map (db m246133) HM
This congregation has been in continuous existence since 1871, when fifteen people led by the Rev. D. S. Snodgrass gathered together to form a new church. In 1874 the Texas and Pacific Railway Company deeded two town lots to the Baptist church at . . . — — Map (db m218618) HM
The original site of Longview lay on the western outskirts of Earpville, a pioneer Upshur County community along the old Marshall-Tyle Road (today known as U.S. Highway 80). Founded around 1850 by James Earp, (pronounced "Arpville") consisted of . . . — — Map (db m89150) HM
This church was organized in 1875 by 12 charter members. The congregation met in a school-house until a frame sanctuary was built later that year on land deeded to the church by the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company. James P. Holloway, a prominent . . . — — Map (db m290337) HM
Black gold! Suddenly, the Great Depression was forgotten with the late 1930 discovery of the East Texas Oil Field, biggest in the world. Trapped in a layer of porous sandstone called the Woodbine formation 3,600 feet below the surface, the field was . . . — — Map (db m89263) HM
This congregation traces its history to 1845, when a one-room log meeting house was erected nearby for a church, school and town hall. The church was served by circuit-riding ministers until 1850. The congregation moved to Earpville on the . . . — — Map (db m218641) HM
This church was established by nine resident members of the Old School Southern Presbyterian Church as a mission in the new town of Longview in 1872. The first church building was erected on land donated by the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1874. . . . — — Map (db m138925) HM
In 1874, a year after Longview became county seat, Methodists moved their
frame building from Earpville to this site, deeded to the Methodist Episcopal
Church South by the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The congregation soon built
one of the . . . — — Map (db m246134) HM
Several families from Alabama moved to Texas in the early 1830s, building homes in this area and creating the community known as Pine Tree. Sometime before 1860, A.T. Castleberry II designated 1.5 acres of his land for a cemetery. Family as well as . . . — — Map (db m290268) HM
The early settlers farmed only to meet their family needs. Any produce left over was used to pay the doctor, the blacksmith or barter for the necessities of life.
Corn was indispensable, meeting a multitude of needs for both family and . . . — — Map (db m89066) HM
General John Gregg
Born Alabama. Came to Texas 1854. Judge, Confederate congressman. Organized 7th Texas Infantry as colonel 1861. Captured at Fort Donelson, Tenn. 1862. Promoted brigadier general after exchange. Commanded brigade . . . — — Map (db m218583) HM
Greater Longview developed around two focal points, each based on a separate depot on the Texas & Pacific track. The downtown depot was on the west side of Fredonia Street while the Junction depot was near the site of the original International . . . — — Map (db m89192) HM
M.H. Graybill acquired land here in 1888. He set aside a tract to be used as a burial ground for local African American sharecroppers and their families. In 1910, Graybill (the cemetery spelling changed over time) sold this tract of land to the . . . — — Map (db m179800) HM
In 1877, J.M. Cornes purchased four acres on this site and, with county surveyor A.S. Taylor, established "the Longview Cemetery," dedicating its streets to public use. It lay barely outside the city limits and immediately north of the Junction . . . — — Map (db m290290) HM
Formed from Rusk and Upshur counties. Created April 12, 1873; organized June 28, 1873. Named in honor of General John Gregg (1828-1864). Delegate to Secession Convention and to the Provisional Congress of the Southern Confederacy; a Confederate . . . — — Map (db m218642) HM
The grove was a natural timber stand within what became Longview in 1870. Tradition holds that the area's Freedmen gathered in the Grove for worship services as early as the 1860s. In 1871, John R. Magrill sold the one-acre grove tract to the town's . . . — — Map (db m290271) HM
Established here by the United States Army in 1942, Harmon General Hospital was named for Colonel Daniel W. Harmon (1880-1940), a medical officer in the regular army. 220 buildings were rapidly constructed on the 156-acre site, and the hospital was . . . — — Map (db m187819) HM
Authorized by the U.S. Army in 1942 and named for Col. Daniel Warrick Harmon, Harmon General Hospital was in operation from November 1942 to December 1945. This ecumenical chapel opened in January 1943. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy served . . . — — Map (db m291176) HM
In 1872, Rev William Carroll Holloway with wife Rebecca Lea Bassett and baby John William settled here. Children born here were
Walter Carroll,
Corrie Elizabeth,
Annie Lea,
James Alton,
Bassett,
Sarah Judson,
Robert Carlton,
Stella May — — Map (db m291177) HM
The cost of freedom is not paid only by the soldier. Those who are left behind at home also pay dearly. As the soldier makes his sacrifices, their families share those sacrifices. A young mother gives birth without her husband being there; a little . . . — — Map (db m296027) WM
If by crying, I could change the course of events and save a single life, my tears would flow for a thousand years.
1,322,000 Americans have given their lifes on battlefields to pay for our freedom. — — Map (db m296030) WM
The area's industrial development was greatly enhanced in 1950 when the Texas Eastman petrochemical plant located near Longview. What originally was intended as a small butyraldehyde plant became the city's biggest employer and the second largest . . . — — Map (db m89272) HM
The Iraq War 2003 - 2011
The Iraq War began with an invasion of Iraq in 2003 by a multi-national invasion force led by the United States. An insurgency emerged to oppose the ocupying forces and the newly formed Iraqi government. After nine . . . — — Map (db m296020) HM WM
In the 1850s, most slaves had contact with organized Christian churches and after Emancipation a great number of African Americans became Baptist because they were free to establish their own churches under their own governance. Schools and churches . . . — — Map (db m291175) HM
In 1855 Alabama-born John Tyson Smith moved with his parents to Upshur County Texas. A Confederate veteran, he settled in Longview about 1872. He served as City Tax Assessor and was Justice of the Peace for two terms. He was elected to five terms . . . — — Map (db m290333) HM
This east Texas landmark established by John "Johnny" Cace, Jr. has served the area since 1949. Johnny was the son of a Yugoslav immigrant who grew up on the island village of Prvic Luka and spent his childhood fishing and boating in the Adriatic . . . — — Map (db m89031) HM
When George Addison Kelly came to East Texas in 1852 at the age of twenty, he saw possibilities in the manufacture and sale of cowbells to supply wagoners and traders. Resolving to make the bells resonance better, he made a journey to Louisville. . . . — — Map (db m89064) HM
At one time, nearly all the cotton crops in the state of Texas were grown in east Texas. As with most of the south, cotton played a major role in the Longview economy.
The emergence of "King Cotton" as a marketable cash crop, coupled . . . — — Map (db m89013) HM
World War II divided Korea at the 38th parallel, into a Communist northern half and Democratic southern half. The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea in 1950. . . . — — Map (db m296024) HM WM
9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda, financed by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United . . . — — Map (db m296023) HM WM
For the soldiers who confront the enemy, there is no difference between a little war and a big war
After World War II, a dispute over Communism versus Democracy grew to include confrontations around the world. Conflicts of National Interest, . . . — — Map (db m296021) HM WM
Named for "long view" from Rock Hill when surveyors laid off townsite in 1870. Incorporated June 24, 1871. Became county seat of Gregg County; also railroad, agricultural and lumber center. Its history includes an 1894 bank robbery-- the last raid . . . — — Map (db m218644) HM
By 1872, Longview received nationwide attention by serving as temporary head of the nation's Southern rail line. Business, population and construction were stimulated by wagon traffic from a large area since Longview provided the closest rail . . . — — Map (db m89154) HM
The Kelly Plow Works was reportedly the only non-sawmill industry in the county other than an ice factory. The Kelly plant, supposedly the first chartered industry in Texas, had relocated to Longview from Marion County in 1882. Kelly became well . . . — — Map (db m89246) HM
Soon after organizing in 1934 Longview's Federation of Women's Clubs began raising funds for a community center. The federation produced matching funds for an appropriation of the Gregg County Commissioners Court to build this structure in 1940. It . . . — — Map (db m290280) HM
The last decade of Longview's first hundred years was a time of historic and fundamental change. In 1962, the "slant hole" scandal brought unfavorable national attention to the East Texas Oil Field. (This illegal process actually pioneered . . . — — Map (db m89276) HM
On this site in 1932, a three story concrete and brick high school building for three grades was erected fronting Whaley Street. The structure was designed by noted architect Mark Lemmon and featured Art Deco entrances with terra cotta and fluted . . . — — Map (db m290279) HM
This community originated in the 1870s with the junction of the Texas & Pacific and International & Great Northern Railroad tracks. Churches, residences, hotels, restaurants, businesses, boardinghouses, and schools developed in the area to . . . — — Map (db m138911) HM
The city of Longview was incorporated in 1871, and there is evidence of a volunteer fire department as early as 1887. A new city hall complex with fire station was constructed in 1905, but the 1930s East Texas oil boom and subsequent population . . . — — Map (db m89006) HM
With railroad expansion headed west, O.H. Methvin deeded 150 acres to Southern Pacific Railroad in 1870. In 1871, Longview became the westward terminus of the railroad. Construction of a railroad line between Longview and Palestine began in 1872 by . . . — — Map (db m138915) HM
Respected Longview citizen. Married Clara Harris, daughter of Gregg County pioneer family.
Active in civic affairs, first elected to public office, 1910, as city marshal and district clerk. County sheriff 1924-1932. Seldom carried a gun - . . . — — Map (db m291086) HM
In January 1873, Upshur County Representative B.W. Brown (a Methodist lay preacher) introduced a bill in the Texas Legislature to make Longview the seat of a new county to be composed of portions of existing Upshur, Rusk and Harrison counties. The . . . — — Map (db m89156) HM
This cemetery was associated with the New Providence Missionary Baptist Church, which was founded in the 1880s. The first documented burial was of W.E. Newton in 1896. In 1903 the church was damaged by a windstorm, struck by lightning and later . . . — — Map (db m291087) HM
All soldiers try to live by the doctrine of "No Man Left Behind" but war is not fought on a theater stage. It is fought on a battlefield, and the fact is, Americans will be left behind as MIA, POW or hostages.
Missing in action, or MIA, is . . . — — Map (db m296031) HM WM
About 1848, O. H. Methvin (1815-1882) and his father Richard came to Texas from Georgia. O. H. Methvin bought about 1,200 acres in East Texas, including this site, which was his cornfield. He built a home on nearby Rock Hill for . . . — — Map (db m88853) HM
Georgia native O.H. Methvin came to Texas about 1848 with his wife Margaret and his father, Richard R. Methvin. They settled on land in Upshur County which would later become a part of Gregg County. In 1870 Methvin gave 100 acres of land to the . . . — — Map (db m290334) HM
Thanks to discovery of the East Texas Oil Field, Longview's population nearly tripled during the next decade, to 13,758 by 1940. While the rest of the nation suffered during the Great Depression. Longview's citizens, businesses and industry, schools . . . — — Map (db m89264) HM
The community of Fredonia was founded by Haden Edwards, a land grantee who contracted in 1825 with the Mexican government to establish 800 families of settlers in East Texas. A later misunderstanding with Mexico caused him to organize the famous . . . — — Map (db m89035) HM
Descendant of a Huguenot family who migrated to America in 1736, Oliver H. Pegues came to Texas with his parents from his native Mississippi in 1850. He moved to Longview in 1871 and became the town's first postmaster, Jan. 27, 1871. Pegues served . . . — — Map (db m291084) HM
This military working dog is waiting for its missing master to return. The bond between a handler and a military working dog goes deeper than "man's best friend." They go through the same harrowing stresses of combat together.
Dogs have served . . . — — Map (db m296032) HM WM
Following the Civil War, emancipated slaves established the Freedmen's Community of Pleasant Green. On December 20, 1871, pastors Henry Moses and Charles Anderson led local residents in organizing a Baptist congregation. The Rev. Henry Mass served . . . — — Map (db m179806) HM
Like the oil boom 60 years later, the railroad boom of the 1870s was a rowdy, colorful period that resulted in lasting improvements. Longview consisted of about 60 hastily built frame buildings near Center and Tyler Streets. Almost half of the . . . — — Map (db m89186) HM
Sale of lots began in September 1870, with the Southern Pacific buying another 50 acres from O.H. Methvin to extend its town site further west. To attract investors and to speed development, streets were given a metropolitan width of 100 feet. The . . . — — Map (db m89153) HM
What eventually became the Santa Fe line running south from Longview Junction was begun in 1877 by the locally capitalized Longview and Sabine Valley Railroad Company. As railroads opened virgin forests to harvest, 20 steam-powered sawmills were . . . — — Map (db m89188) HM
In 1875, a group of freed African Americans founded a church south of the Longview townsite. Sallie Rollins donated land for Red Oak Grove Baptist Church, and Rev. Rube Wright was the first pastor. The original site was near current Eastman Road and . . . — — Map (db m291178) HM
Embracing the national popularity of baseball, Longview formed an amateur team in April 1883, eventually named the Longview Cannibals. Robert A. McLain (1870-1941), a pitcher and outfielder from Georgia, helped elevate the team to semi-professional . . . — — Map (db m290282) HM
A native of Richford, Vermont, Robert G. LeTourneau built his first industrial plant in Stockton, California, in 1921. A self-educated man, he invented and pioneered the use of components now standard in many types of construction equipment. The . . . — — Map (db m187818) HM
Colonial mansion built in 1854, 50 yards north. Overnight stop on W.T. Brooks' stageline from Monroe, La., to Tyler via Pine Tree and Earpville postoffices, both now in Longview.
Slaves hewed lumber and made chimney bricks on site. First floor . . . — — Map (db m218645) HM
In 1880, St. Anthony Parish was established in Longview with circuit riding priests providing church services. In 1884, a frame structure was built, serving the congregation until 1940 when a new facility was commissioned. St. Anthony has been a . . . — — Map (db m290335) HM
First known as St. Mark Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, this congregation was organized by former slaves about 1867. Worship services were held in a brush arbor built at the present site of Magrill Park. The Rev. Robert A. Hagler served as first . . . — — Map (db m291179) HM
This site was once within the boundary of the community of Earpville, settled in the late 1840s by James Earp (d. 1861) and many of his relatives from Alabama. Located on a stagecoach line, the settlement at its height boasted a post office, stage . . . — — Map (db m218617) HM
Texas' first native governor (1891-1895), James Stephen Hogg, founded here in 1871 his first newspaper, the Longview "News". He was then 20 years old.
In his paper Hogg was a strong supporter of educational and governmental improvements for . . . — — Map (db m138920) HM
In 1870 450 feet south where railway surveyors commented on the "long
view" seen from the crest of the hill, and chose this name.
Marker erected by Christian Reinhardt, Sr. Society and Texas State Society Children of the American . . . — — Map (db m246136) HM
Longview was led into the 20th Century by Mayor Gabriel Augustus Bodenheim (1873-1957), known affectionately as "Bodie." Serving as mayor 1904-1916 and 1918-1920, Bodenheim oversaw Longview's first municipal water works, sanitary sewer system . . . — — Map (db m89241) HM
During the early 1900s oil boom, many Jewish families settled in northeast Texas. Longview's Temple Emanu-El (God is with Us) has its origins in the 1936 Kilgore Temple Beth Shalom (House of Peace). For two decades, Jewish families traveled to . . . — — Map (db m291089) HM
In 1957, Longview members of Kilgore's Temple Beth Shalom established a new synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, along with а new burial ground as part of the larger Memory Park Cemetery. Temple Emanu-El cemetery became Harrison County's second . . . — — Map (db m291097) HM
On April 7, 1870, O.H. Methvin deeded one hundred acres of farmland to the Southern Pacific Railroad. The uptown depot was constructed immediately north of the rail track on Fredonia Street.
In 1872, the Texas & Pacific took over the . . . — — Map (db m89171) HM
The abundance of natural resources, coupled with the distribution capabilities of the railroad, beginning in 1870, gave rise to the area's first industry – timber, By 1877, there were 20 steam – powered sawmills in Gregg County, . . . — — Map (db m89015) HM
Although J. Garland Pegues had established the City Garage (later Pegues-Hurst Ford), all roads leading in and out of Longview remained dirt wagon tracks. Railroads continued to be the city's lifeline. In 1910, there were 18 daily passenger trains. . . . — — Map (db m89260) HM
To: USA Veterans
From: Trinity School of Texas
Panel 1
Crispus Attucks, Continental Army, Boston March 5, 1770
Curtis F. Kruse, 60th Air Dep. Group, WW II
Cecil R. Hawthorne, U.S. Army, WW II 19441945
Michael Hampton, . . . — — Map (db m296093) WM
Vietnam War
1955-1975
Freedom is not free the cost is written on the wall
In 1961, South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States. North Vietnam was supporting a communist revolt led by The Viet Cong. . . . — — Map (db m296025) HM WM
The Vietnam Memorial Wall at the top of the hill is a fifty percent replica of the wall located in Washington, D.C. On November 5, 2016, this replica was dedicated with 58,310 names engraved. The names are engraved in the same order as those found . . . — — Map (db m296026) WM
In 1883, seven prominent Longview residents chartered the Longview & Junction Railway Company. For nearly thirty years, it operated a mule-drawn trolley that ran between the Junction Depot located at the intersection of Methvin and Sixth . . . — — Map (db m89168) HM
This cemetery began on the farm purchased in 1879 by July G. and Martha Howard Garner. Land was set aside for a family cemetery upon the deaths of the Garner's nephew, Joel S. Bright, and niece, Jessie L. Webb, in November 1887. This family cemetery . . . — — Map (db m291096) HM
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