Near North 3rd Street (State Highway 14) 0.1 miles north of West Canadian Avenue (County Highway 1010).
Born near Wortham. As a young street musician, played a guitar and sang spirituals and blues. Composed many of his songs, and had a distinctive vocal style. From Dallas' Deep Elm District went to Chicago in 1920's with a talent scout; made 79 . . . — — Map (db m158925) HM
Situated on grant given 1834 by Mexico to Robert B. Longbotham (1797-1883), a Texas colonist from England who settled here in 1839. Years later, in 1871, when Houston & Texas Central Railway was planned through the area, R. B. Longbotham sold . . . — — Map (db m145019) HM
Near Cemetery Road, 0.4 miles west of South 3rd Street (State Highway 14), on the right when traveling west.
One of nine children of the Rev. Henry Haggard, Baptist Minister, and his wife Dorothy (Randolph), both natives of Virginia. Born in U.S. Territory south of the Ohio river (now Tennessee), Lucy Haggard moved to Alabama Territory about 1814. There, . . . — — Map (db m158951) HM
Near Cemetery Road, 0.5 miles west of South 3rd Street (State Highway 14).
Born in Sunderland, England.
Came to America as Carpenter's Apprentice on a ship. Married Lucy Haggard, 1820, in Alabama. Came to Texas, 1832. Obtained land grant from Mexico 1835. In 1836 fought in Texas Revolution and in 1839 in Indian Wars. In . . . — — Map (db m158950) HM
On West Main Street at North 3rd Street (State Highway 14), on the left when traveling west on West Main Street.
Born in Hickory, Miss. Family came to Texas, 1864. Preached his first sermon in 1880. Was ordained in 1890. Helped organize and was charter member of the Wortham Methodist Church. Instrumental in organizing area churches and serving their people. . . . — — Map (db m158938) HM
The city of Wortham rejected a well drilled by C. L. Witherspoon in 1912 when it produced gas, not water. However, oil and gas wells in 1919-23 gave prosperity to neighbors north and south, and petroleum exploration began here.
Discovery well . . . — — Map (db m145020) HM
On West Main Street at North 3rd Street (State Highway 14), on the left when traveling west on West Main Street.
Congregation organized in 1867 by the Rev. J. Hill Bounds, an immigrant from Mississippi who brought his family to Texas by ox-wagon in 1865. At frist this church, as well as others in Wortham, shared a two-story building with the local Masonic . . . — — Map (db m158930) HM
