Founder and developer of Honey Grove, B.S. Walcott was a native of New England. He came to this area in 1846 and in 1848 married Elizabeth (Betsey) Gilmer (1815-65). Walcott opened the first store here in Samuel Erwin's log cabin and constructed the . . . — — Map (db m234279) HM
This congregation was organized in 1876 by the Rt. Rev. Alexander C. Garrett, Bishop of the Missionary District of Northern Texas, and later Bishop of Dallas. In 1883, this building was constructed during the ministry of the Rev. J.P. Lytton. Of . . . — — Map (db m234272) HM
Named for David Crockett (1786-1836), the colorful Tennessee pioneer and congressman who rallied to cause of Texas in her war for independence. Late in 1835, Crockett traveled by riverboat, horseback, and on foot, entering Texas along the Red River . . . — — Map (db m234224) HM
This Queen Anne house was built in 1890, seventeen years after the town of Honey Grove was chartered. It was constructed for William H. and Martha (O'Kelley) Gross. A prominent area lawyer, Gross served as the first city attorney for Honey Grove. In . . . — — Map (db m234273) HM
Artist-photographer Erwin Evans Smith, a Fannin County native, was enchanted as a youth with the culture and folklore of ranching in the southwest. He studied art in Chicago and Boston in hopes of becoming a western sculptor. For several summers in . . . — — Map (db m234294) HM
Originally organized in November of 1847 by pastor W.M. Pickett, a missionary from the Southern Baptist Convention Home Mission Board, the First Baptist Church of Honey Grove met in a log schoolhouse at nearby Allen's Chapel. Nine charter members . . . — — Map (db m234269) HM
In 1885, ten years after the town of Honey Grove was incorporated, Mayor J. P. Gilmer brought to the attention of the City Council the need for a city hall and jail building. This structure was completed four years later. It is Fannin County's only . . . — — Map (db m127943) HM
Granted a dispensation by the Grand Lodge of Texas in 1854, the Honey Grove Masonic Lodge was officially chartered in 1856. Early meetings were held in the attic of the Old Smith Hotel on the town square and on the second floor of the Walcott School . . . — — Map (db m234265) HM
One of the courageous men who helped civilize the wilderness. Moved here from Kentucky in 1845 with his wife Elizabeth (Parrish) and children William S., George A., and Thomas S. James P. Gilmer, the fourth son, is said to have been first . . . — — Map (db m234280) HM
A native Virginian, James Thomas ("Tank") Holt came to Fannin County with his parents in 1849. After serving in the Confederate Cavalry during the Civil War (1861-65), he started a freighting operation. He invested his profits in such ventures as . . . — — Map (db m234283) HM
This church traces its history to early Methodist services held in the Union Church of Honey Grove in the 1840s. Methodist members of the Union Church erected their first church building here in 1881 and named it for J. W. P. McKenzie, a pioneer . . . — — Map (db m127944) HM
Established in 1846, this cemetery was originally known as the Walcott graveyard. The earliest documented burial in the cemetery is that of James G. Gilmer (1814-1846). A native of Kentucky, Gilmer came to Texas in the late 1830s and settled in this . . . — — Map (db m234281) HM
Virginia-born Samuel Erwin was married in 1819 in Tennessee to Sally Rodgers Crisp (1795-1860), in a ceremony performed by local magistrate David Crockett. First settler in the Honey Grove area, Erwin arrived here in 1837 and surveyed land grants . . . — — Map (db m234278) HM
The first school for African Americans in Honey Grove began in 1882 with 20 students and one teacher. The school was named for F.M. Bralley, an early superintendent. By 1911 there were 188 students and two teachers. Bralley became a high school in . . . — — Map (db m234225) HM
The white clapboard octagon chapel was built by the Twentieth Century Club in 1907. The chapel portico was supported by two white columns on which was mounted this marble plaque. The chapel was furnished with pews, a pump organ and wood burning . . . — — Map (db m234282) HM
