​Field's Store Community

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Marker Text: ​Settlers began arriving in this vicinity prior to the Civil War. In the early 1870s Druey Holland Field (1809-72) and his wife Caroline (Perry) (1837-76) opened a general store in the area, and the small agricultural settlement that soon developed became known as Field's Store community. A center of business for the surrounding rural area, the settlement was the site of a school, post office, brick kiln, blacksmith shop, cotton gin and other businesses. Also known as New Hope community, it retains a sense of identity that reflects its early role as the nucleus of pioneer settlement. (1982)

Marker No: 9382

Aluminum 18 x  28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.164991, -95.924232

Location: Intersection of FM 1488 and FM 362, Field's Store, 15 miles east of Hempstead