On North Sherley Road at East 4th Street, on the left when traveling south on North Sherley Road.
Lewis and Paulina Sherley moved to North Texas from Kentucky about 1853. When the town of Anna was established in 1872, their grandsons, brothers Andrew and Fred Sherley, opened a hardware store. In 1894 they built this structure to house the . . . — — Map (db m194691) HM
On South Sherley Road at 4th Street, on the left when traveling south on South Sherley Road.
When the Houston & Texas Central Railroad came through in 1872, there was no town here. The railroad was the spark that ignited the town of Anna, and the population had grown to 20 people by 1883.
The depot was 70 feet in length when it was . . . — — Map (db m194687) HM
On South Central Expressway Frontage Road (U.S. 75) at Farm to Market Road 284, on the right when traveling south on South Central Expressway Frontage Road.
This cemetery, which dates to the mid-19th century, is on land donated by early settler John Coffman (1804-1880). His son, George W. Coffman (1840-1913), owned and operated a homestead one mile west of this site. The oldest marked grave dates to . . . — — Map (db m72897) HM
On South Sherley Road at 5th Street, on the left when traveling south on South Sherley Road.
Liberty Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), one of the earliest Christian churches in Texas, was founded in northern Collin County by pioneer settlers Collin McKinney and J.B. Wilmeth in 1846. In 1854 a Christian seminary was established by . . . — — Map (db m194694) HM
On Bryant Farm Road, 0.2 miles north of County Route 371, on the left when traveling north.
On February 23, 1854, William C. McKinney, James W. Throckmorton, John A. Throckmorton, and Joseph Wilcox set aside twenty-five acres for the town of Mantua, which was conceived as a site for Mantua Seminary. Proceeds from the sale of town lots . . . — — Map (db m223613) HM
On South Sherley Road at East 7th Street, on the left when traveling south on South Sherley Road.
The earliest citizens of Anna were determined that their children should have the best educational opportunities possible. Founded in 1883 with a population of twenty, Anna was named for the daughter of a Houston & Texas Central Railroad official. . . . — — Map (db m194695) HM
