On Park Drive, 0.3 miles east of Croom Drive, on the left when traveling east.
Georgia native Albert Clinton Horton came to Texas in 1834 from Alabama, where he had served in the state legislature. He established a plantation along Caney Creek in present Wharton County. In 1835, he returned to Alabama to recruit volunteers for . . . — — Map (db m191990) HM
On West Farm to Market 1161 Road, 0.2 miles west of County Road 232, on the right when traveling west.
The Rev. Hillary Hooks, formerly a slave on the James E. Winston plantation, organized Camp Zion Baptist Church in 1870. Winston granted land to Camp Zion trustees in 1887. A segment of the membership left and organized Rising Star Baptist Church . . . — — Map (db m205730) HM
On West Burleson Street at South Fulton Street, on the right when traveling east on West Burleson Street.
The town of Wharton was founded as the seat of Wharton County in April 1846. Land for a courthouse, named Monterey Square, was given from the land grant of William Kincheloe, one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" colonists who settled in . . . — — Map (db m120594) HM
On North Fulton Street at Linn Street, on the right when traveling south on North Fulton Street.
Early Baptist worship services in this area were most likely held at the home of "Old 300" colonist William Kincheloe perhaps as early as 1822. A Sunday School was started in or near present-day Wharton in 1829 or 1830. A Baptist congregation was . . . — — Map (db m191933) HM
Early Methodist services in this area can be traced to 1835 when a camp meeting was held in Egypt. According to local church historians, the Wharton congregation began meeting in 1859 and was officially organized in 1865. Members built a church on . . . — — Map (db m191927) HM
A native of Ohio, Joseph Andrew Hamilton served in the Union army during the Civil War. About 1866 he settled in Wharton, where he held a variety of local political offices. Hamilton purchased this property in 1885 and moved his family into the . . . — — Map (db m207920) HM
Rosa F. McCamly had this home built in 1896. In 1897 she sold it to Edwin Hawes (b. 1852), Wharton County judge in the 1870s and 1880s. Hawes had returned to this area after temporarily residing in Kerrville, where he was mayor. Here he was a . . . — — Map (db m207921) HM
On West Milam Street (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling west.
A native of Dublin, Ireland, George E. Quinan came to Texas in the 1830s. By the mid-1840s he had moved to Wharton and set up a law office near this site. He was elected district attorney in 1845. Quinan and his wife Mary Anne established a home on . . . — — Map (db m120600) HM
On East Alabama Street just east of North Fulton Street, on the right when traveling west.
Nettie Elkins House has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. — — Map (db m208169) HM
On East Milam Street (State Highway 60) at North Fulton Street, on the right when traveling west on East Milam Street.
The Security Bank and Trust Company traces its history to the Wharton National Bank. The second banking institution to open in the city, the Wharton National Bank was organized in 1902, and closed in 1915. Following reorganization, the bank reopened . . . — — Map (db m120599) HM
On North Alabama Road at East Ahldag Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Alabama Road.
Jewish families in Wharton began meeting together for worship services about 1899. The congregation received its official charter in 1913 and was registered as Shearith Israel Synagogue. A synagogue building was erected on S. Rusk Street in 1921, . . . — — Map (db m191928) HM
On South Houston Street south of West Milam Street (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling south.
Built on Wharton's Courthouse Square, the Plaza Hotel began circa 1904 as a two-story brick structure with a large dining room on the first floor and 20 rooms to let. Owned and operated by R. B. Huston and his wife Lula Merriwether Huston, the Plaza . . . — — Map (db m120601) HM
On South Fulton Street south of East Milam Street (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling south.
Born in Georgia in 1806
Editor "The Texas Gazette" and
"The Mexican Citizen," pioneer
Texas newspapers
Active in the Revolution
Member of the Supreme Court of
the Republic, 1836-1839
Member of Texas Legislature
1846-1849
Died . . . — — Map (db m120597) HM
On East Bolling Highway (Farm to Market Road 1301) east of Junior College Boulevard, on the left when traveling east.
Included in a land grant awarded in 1824 to Martin Allen, one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" colonists, this property has had a long and varied history. In the 1840s Allen's heirs sold most of his land to Albert Clinton Horton, Wharton . . . — — Map (db m96304) HM
On Pecan Street at Avenue B, on the right when traveling north on Pecan Street.
The Rev. Ernst August Wenzel, a German Lutheran Missionary, began visiting German immigrant families in the Kriegel area east of Wharton in the 1890s. They formed a congregation, and in 1898 purchased the former Methodist Church building in Wharton . . . — — Map (db m191934) HM
On North East Avenue at East Alabama Street, on the right when traveling south on North East Avenue.
This church traces its history to 1893, when German settlers in Waterhouse (about 10 mi. W) began worshiping together. Officially named St. John Lutheran Church in 1895, the congregation moved to Glen Flora in 1920, after storms, destroyed its first . . . — — Map (db m191936) HM
On Bob-O-Link Lane at North Rusk Street, on the left when traveling east on Bob-O-Link Lane.
At the Diocesan Convention of 1867 St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church was established, the second church group in Wharton County and the first and only Episcopal Church to permanently root in the county, worship in Wharton began with the first official . . . — — Map (db m191926) HM
This typical "shotgun house” was built by Texas Gulf Sulphur Company in 1917 to house workers at its sulphur mine in the coastal town of Gulf, Texas. It was later sold and moved to College Street in Wharton. Byrl and Irvin "Rags” Rather were . . . — — Map (db m212433) HM
On East Alabama Street at North East Avenue, on the right when traveling east on East Alabama Street.
Wharton County was established in 1846, and the county seat, Wharton, was laid out on the Mexican Land Grant of "Old 300" colonist William Kincheloe. In 1866, county commissioners appointed James Whitten to find a suitable location for a cemetery. . . . — — Map (db m191935) HM
On South Fulton Street south of East Milam Street (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling south.
Wharton County
Created April 3, 1846
From Matagorda, Jackson and Colorado
Counties, Organized same year
Named for
William H. Wharton
1806-1839
Texas minister to the
United States
1836-1837, and his brother
John A. Wharton . . . — — Map (db m120596) HM
On West Milam Street (State Highway 60) at South Houston Street, on the left when traveling west on West Milam Street.
"Lest We Forget"
1861-1865
Dedicated to the Confederate veterans of Wharton County by the J.E.B. Stuart Chapter Daughters of Confederacy
Commanders of Buchel Camp
Col. I.N. Dennis
Capt. G.C. Duncan
R.M. Brown
Judge G.S. . . . — — Map (db m122254) WM
On West Burleson Street east of South Houston Street, on the left when traveling east.
The Texas legislature created Wharton County in 1846, incorporating part of Stephen F. Austin's original land grant from Mexico. The William Kincheloe family donated land on the east bank of the Colorado River for a courthouse square, and the home . . . — — Map (db m120593) HM