This site was first used as a burial ground shortly after the Civil War. The earliest legible gravestone is that of Julia Alice (Boisseau) Man (1843-68). Her husband Ralph S. Man and brother-in-law Julian Feild founded Mansfield (originally spelled . . . — — Map (db m194520) HM
On West Broad Street, 0.2 miles west of North 4th Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Mansfield founder Ralph S. Man built this home for his family between the years ca. 1865-1870. The oldest known building in Mansfield, it stands as an important local landmark. Over a five-year period, Man enlarged and remodeled the home from a . . . — — Map (db m194867) HM
On Hudson Cemetery Road west of S Eden Road, on the left when traveling west.
When John Dickson and Winnie (Traylor) Hudson's daughter Ary Mae died in 1878, she was the first person to be buried on the family land. Her twin, Ara Bell, who had been buried in Montague County earlier that year, was later reinterred beside Ary . . . — — Map (db m201900) HM
On Elm Street at Sycamore Street, on the right when traveling west on Elm Street.
This structure was built in 1877 as a residence for the founder of Mansfield Male and Female College, John C. Collier (1834-1928). A native of South Carolina, Collier was a distinguished educator and Presbyterian minister who in 1869 was asked to . . . — — Map (db m194854) HM
On West Broad Street, 0.2 miles west of North 4th Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
The Man family did not farm crops as their primary source of income. Their property had gardens, small orchards and animals, mostly for their own use. An agricultural census taken in 1880 shows that the Mans owned 186 acres of land and kept nine . . . — — Map (db m194873) HM
On East Broad Street at South Main Street (Business Highway 287), on the right when traveling east on East Broad Street.
Julian Feild (1825-1897) and Ralph Mann (1825-1906) became acquainted in Harrison County, Texas, about 1850. About 1854 they built a mill near the Clear and West Forks of the Trinity River. The two business partners came south of Fort Worth in . . . — — Map (db m183766) HM
On South Waxahachie Street at East Dallas Street on South Waxahachie Street.
In the early 1890s Joseph Nugent (1829-1903) and his wife, Christina, built this house, which features late 19th-century Victorian and Eastlake details in the porch. Nugent, a native of Canada, came to Texas in 1851. He operated a private school in . . . — — Map (db m194516) HM
On West Broad Street, 0.2 miles west of North 4th Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
A native of South Carolina who came to Texas in the 1850s, Ralph Sandiford Man (1825-1907) was one of the founders of Mansfield. The town was named for Man and his brother-in law and business partner, Julian Feild. The two men operated a steam . . . — — Map (db m194523) HM
On West Broad Street, 0.2 miles west of North 4th Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Ralph Sandiford Man was born November 21, 1825 in Charleston, South Carolina to English immigrants John and Catherine Norton Man. The son of a brick maker, Man spent his youth as an apprentice carpenter. He left Charleston at age 22 to move west. He . . . — — Map (db m194869) HM
On East Dallas Street at South Waxahachie Street, on the right when traveling east on East Dallas Street.
In the late nineteenth century, Father Thomas Hagerty, Pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Waxahachie, traveled by train once each month to celebrate Mass with the six Catholic families in this area. In 1898, a small frame church was erected on . . . — — Map (db m194507) HM
