On County Road 1675 east of Farm to Market Road 227, on the left when traveling east.
This church served the freed slaves of the Percilla, Augusta and Glover communities. A small wood-framed church was built in 1880 and served as the church building until 1906. This first location on Percilla Road also served as the Elliott Springs . . . — — Map (db m245616) HM
On Main Street at West Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling south on Main Street.
In area settled about 1850. Founded 1872 by International & Great Northern Railway Investors. Named for rank wild grapevines. Post office opened May 26, 1873.
Log schoolhouse, used also for church services, was first public building. Disciples . . . — — Map (db m161210) HM
On Farm to Market Road 227 at Tyler Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling south on Road 227.
Near this site is evidence of the 19th-century home and burial ground used by the family of John and Mary Ann Denson. John Denson (1815-c.1861) arrived in this area in 1835 with his parents, Thomas C. and Polly Denson who were Predestination . . . — — Map (db m245656) HM
On West Chestnut Street (Farm to Market Road 227) at North Olive Street, on the right when traveling south on West Chestnut Street.
As baptists from surrounding rural communities began to move to the thriving railroad town of Grapeland, the need for a Baptist Church in town led to the establishment of this congregation in 1891. Services were held in the public school until 1909 . . . — — Map (db m161153) HM
On North Market Street (U.S. 287 BUS) at North College, on the right when traveling south on North Market Street.
Congregation organized about 1870 in community of Red House (3 mi. East), where Indian Village had once stood. When Grapeland was founded with coming of railroad in 1872, church moved to town. At first held services in school house. Present . . . — — Map (db m161139) HM
Alabama native Franklin Columbus Woodard settled in this area with his parents about 1850. After being educated as a teacher, Woodard graduated from Medical School in 1887 and later moved his family to Grapeland to start his medical practice. In . . . — — Map (db m161161) HM
On Farm to Market Road 2022 at County Road 1650, on the right when traveling north on Road 2022.
Among the earliest burials in this family cemetery on John Edens' land are believed to be the victims of the Edens-Madden massacre, which occurred near here in October 1838. The victims included John Edens' second wife, whose name is unknown; his . . . — — Map (db m245606) HM
A native of Louisiana, Joseph Randolph Yarbrough served in the Texas War for Independence from Mexico and was assigned to guard the camp opposite Harrisburg during the Battle of San Jacinto. He and his father, John Swanson Yarbrough, signed the . . . — — Map (db m161208) HM
On Farm to Market Road 2968 east of County Road 2305, on the right when traveling west.
Organized in 1848 as Friendship Baptist Church, this congregation was housed in a small wooden structure on this site. The people called the Rev S.F. Wall in 1868. Minutes from the 1875 meeting of the Neches River Baptist Association reveal that a . . . — — Map (db m245659) HM
On County Road 2305, 1 mile west of Farm to Market Road 2968, on the right when traveling north.
Willis Parker arrived in this area from North Carolina in the 1850s. Many of his relatives later joined him in Texas. Upon Willis Parker's death about 1857, his parents Ralph R. and Sarah C. Hodge Parker set aside land on their farm for a family . . . — — Map (db m245661) HM
On Farm to Market Road 2022 north of Parker Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling north.
On land given by John Jesse Jones (1820-1872), who with his wife Margaret Kyle (1830-1896) moved from Alabama to Texas in the 1850s. The 1860s one-room log cabin schoolhouse was used also for church and community meetings. It was furnished with . . . — — Map (db m245603) HM
