Navarro County Historical Marker
NUMBER OF MARKER IN COUNTY- 158
Have- 137 Need- 21
Navarro County is in north central Texas. It's county seat is Corsicana. Named for Jose Navarro, who has a large centennial monument at the Navarro County Courthouse. Jose Antonio Navarro was a Texas patriot and played a large role in the Texas Revolution.
I'll preface this by saying that there has been 16 years between when the majority of photos were taken to my writing down my thoughts and impressions of Navarro county. I had to ask Steve if we had actually stayed here because I didn't think we had but I wasn't completely sure. I remember there are many beautiful old houses, but the thing that most comes to mind is being able to capture Corsicana State home which back in 2008 was behind locked razor wired fences, required permission and an escort as it was part of the juvenile detention center.
There are many new markers, a couple of which I believe have yet to be placed. A couple of cemeteries on private property but the greatest challenge I believe will be Magnolia Oil Refinery which may or may not be on the refinery grounds and thus behind fences and will again require permission.
We are leaving tomorrow and will be visiting this area and should be able to cut the markers needed down by half and hopefully will have some more interesting information.
I'll preface this by saying that there has been 16 years between when the majority of photos were taken to my writing down my thoughts and impressions of Navarro county. I had to ask Steve if we had actually stayed here because I didn't think we had but I wasn't completely sure. I remember there are many beautiful old houses, but the thing that most comes to mind is being able to capture Corsicana State home which back in 2008 was behind locked razor wired fences, required permission and an escort as it was part of the juvenile detention center.
There are many new markers, a couple of which I believe have yet to be placed. A couple of cemeteries on private property but the greatest challenge I believe will be Magnolia Oil Refinery which may or may not be on the refinery grounds and thus behind fences and will again require permission.
We are leaving tomorrow and will be visiting this area and should be able to cut the markers needed down by half and hopefully will have some more interesting information.
15th Texas Infantry Companies E and G
Air Activities of Texas, Corsicana Field
Alexander Beaton
Alva Everett Taylor
American Well & Prospecting Company
Angus Schoolhouse
Annie Carpenter Love
Ash Creek (Pelham) School
Baptist General Association of Texas
Barry
Barry Baptist Church
Battle Creek Burial Ground
Bazette Baptist Church and Cemetery
Bethel AME Church
Beauford Halbert Jester Home
Birdston Community and Cemetery
Birdston Valley
Birthsite of Beauford H. Jester
Blooming Grove School
Blooming Grove United Methodist Church
Braniff International Flight 352
Britton Dawson Home
Brushie Prairie Methodist Church
Campbell-Elrod Cemetery
Capt. Charles Henry Allyn
Chatfield Baptist Church
Chatfield United Methodist Church
City of Blooming Grove
Col. Clinton McKamey Winkler
Collin Street Bakery
Colonel Roger Q. Mills
Conner Cemetery
Corsicana
Corsicana City Jail of 1908
Corsicana Hebrew Cemetery
Corsicana Newspapers
Corsicana Public Library
Corsicana State Home
Corsicana in 1860-1872
David Reed Mitchell
Davison Family Cemetery
David Wilson Campbell
Dr. George Washington Hill
Dr. Will Coleman, Sr.
Dresden Cemetery
Dresden United Methodist Church
Dunn-Johnston Cemetery
Dunn-Ransom Home
Early Texas Natural Gas Pipelines
Emhouse Baptist Church
Eureka Cemetery
Eureka Methodist Church
Fire Station No. 2
First Baptist Church of Corsicana
First Baptist Church of Rice
First Independent Baptist Church of Corsicana
First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church of Richland
Former Site of Liberty Hill Settlement
Francis Marion Martin
Frank Neal Drane
Fred Douglass - G. W. Jackson School
Frost
Frost Baptist Church
Frost Methodist Church
General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
George Taylor Jester
George Washington Shelton
Grange Hall Cemetery
Grape Creek Cemetery
G. W. Jackson
Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery
Hamilton-Bragg Cemetery
Haynie Memorial Methodist Church
Henry G. Damon
Holman Home
Home of Whitney Montgomery, Poet
Hopewell Baptist Church
Hopewell Cemetery
Indian Trading Post
J. A. Megarity Homestead
James Clinton Neill
James Emerson Whiteselle
James L. Collins
Jester-Butler House
Johnson-McCammon House
Jose Antonio Navarro
Joseph S. Cullinan, Pioneer in Texas Oil
Josiah Martin Daniel
Judge E. J. Simkins House
Judge John S. Callicutt
Kerens
Kerens Presbyterian Church
L. P. Hodge Home
Last Review of the Confederacy
Lawrence Family Cemetery
Lemon-Edens House
Long Prairie Cemetery
Love-Anderson Feud
Magnolia Oil Refinery
Meritt Drane
Midway Cemetery
Navarro County
Navarro County Courthouse
Navarro Mills Community
Navarro Rifles
Oak Valley School
Odd Fellow and Rebekah Children's Home
Oil City Iron Works
Old Welding Shop of H. C. Nicol
Pelham Cemetery
Pelham Community
Petty's Chapel
Pinkston
Pisgah Ridge
Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church
Prairie Point Church and Cemetery
R. N. White First County Clerk-First Corsicana Postmaster
Raleigh Cemetery
Rex Ingram
Rice
Rice Cemetery
Richland Cemetery
Roane Baptist Church
Roger Q. Mills Home
Rosenberg Family
Rural Shade
Samuel R. Frost
Samuel Wistar Johnson, M. D.
Senator James H. Woods Home
Site of Merchants Opera House
Site of Tuckertown
Site of University Training School - Central Texas College
Site of the First Courthouse
Smith-McCrery Home
Spring Hill
Squire Josiah Daniel Home
State National Bank of Corsicana
St. John's Episcopal Church
Stephen Augustus Pace
Tatum Home
Temple Beth-El
The Birthplace of the Petroleum Industry
"Call to Arms"
The First National Bank of Corsicana
The Fortson Family
The Joseph Burleson Family Cemetery
The Molloy Hotel
The Powell Oil Field
The Scales-Fortson House
Thomas Ingles Smith
Town of Dawson
Trading Post of Dr. George Washington Hill
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church
Westminster Presbyterian Church
White Church Cemetery
Winkler
YMCA of Corsicana
Younger Cemetery
Air Activities of Texas, Corsicana Field
Alexander Beaton
Alva Everett Taylor
American Well & Prospecting Company
Angus Schoolhouse
Annie Carpenter Love
Ash Creek (Pelham) School
Baptist General Association of Texas
Barry
Barry Baptist Church
Battle Creek Burial Ground
Bazette Baptist Church and Cemetery
Bethel AME Church
Beauford Halbert Jester Home
Birdston Community and Cemetery
Birdston Valley
Birthsite of Beauford H. Jester
Blooming Grove School
Blooming Grove United Methodist Church
Braniff International Flight 352
Britton Dawson Home
Brushie Prairie Methodist Church
Campbell-Elrod Cemetery
Capt. Charles Henry Allyn
Chatfield Baptist Church
Chatfield United Methodist Church
City of Blooming Grove
Col. Clinton McKamey Winkler
Collin Street Bakery
Colonel Roger Q. Mills
Conner Cemetery
Corsicana
Corsicana City Jail of 1908
Corsicana Hebrew Cemetery
Corsicana Newspapers
Corsicana Public Library
Corsicana State Home
Corsicana in 1860-1872
David Reed Mitchell
Davison Family Cemetery
David Wilson Campbell
Dr. George Washington Hill
Dr. Will Coleman, Sr.
Dresden Cemetery
Dresden United Methodist Church
Dunn-Johnston Cemetery
Dunn-Ransom Home
Early Texas Natural Gas Pipelines
Emhouse Baptist Church
Eureka Cemetery
Eureka Methodist Church
Fire Station No. 2
First Baptist Church of Corsicana
First Baptist Church of Rice
First Independent Baptist Church of Corsicana
First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church of Richland
Former Site of Liberty Hill Settlement
Francis Marion Martin
Frank Neal Drane
Fred Douglass - G. W. Jackson School
Frost
Frost Baptist Church
Frost Methodist Church
General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
George Taylor Jester
George Washington Shelton
Grange Hall Cemetery
Grape Creek Cemetery
G. W. Jackson
Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery
Hamilton-Bragg Cemetery
Haynie Memorial Methodist Church
Henry G. Damon
Holman Home
Home of Whitney Montgomery, Poet
Hopewell Baptist Church
Hopewell Cemetery
Indian Trading Post
J. A. Megarity Homestead
James Clinton Neill
James Emerson Whiteselle
James L. Collins
Jester-Butler House
Johnson-McCammon House
Jose Antonio Navarro
Joseph S. Cullinan, Pioneer in Texas Oil
Josiah Martin Daniel
Judge E. J. Simkins House
Judge John S. Callicutt
Kerens
Kerens Presbyterian Church
L. P. Hodge Home
Last Review of the Confederacy
Lawrence Family Cemetery
Lemon-Edens House
Long Prairie Cemetery
Love-Anderson Feud
Magnolia Oil Refinery
Meritt Drane
Midway Cemetery
Navarro County
Navarro County Courthouse
Navarro Mills Community
Navarro Rifles
Oak Valley School
Odd Fellow and Rebekah Children's Home
Oil City Iron Works
Old Welding Shop of H. C. Nicol
Pelham Cemetery
Pelham Community
Petty's Chapel
Pinkston
Pisgah Ridge
Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church
Prairie Point Church and Cemetery
R. N. White First County Clerk-First Corsicana Postmaster
Raleigh Cemetery
Rex Ingram
Rice
Rice Cemetery
Richland Cemetery
Roane Baptist Church
Roger Q. Mills Home
Rosenberg Family
Rural Shade
Samuel R. Frost
Samuel Wistar Johnson, M. D.
Senator James H. Woods Home
Site of Merchants Opera House
Site of Tuckertown
Site of University Training School - Central Texas College
Site of the First Courthouse
Smith-McCrery Home
Spring Hill
Squire Josiah Daniel Home
State National Bank of Corsicana
St. John's Episcopal Church
Stephen Augustus Pace
Tatum Home
Temple Beth-El
The Birthplace of the Petroleum Industry
"Call to Arms"
The First National Bank of Corsicana
The Fortson Family
The Joseph Burleson Family Cemetery
The Molloy Hotel
The Powell Oil Field
The Scales-Fortson House
Thomas Ingles Smith
Town of Dawson
Trading Post of Dr. George Washington Hill
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church
Westminster Presbyterian Church
White Church Cemetery
Winkler
YMCA of Corsicana
Younger Cemetery