Reynard Community
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Marker Text: Pioneer settlers began arriving in this area in the late 1830s. By the late 1850s a rural community known as Trinity Chapel had built up. Thomas Jefferson Fox and his family established a farm here in the late 1880s. When a post office was opened in 1901 the community was named Reynard (French for fox). At its peak Reynard boasted two general stores, a church, school, cotton gin, sawmill, and numerous scattered farms. Although the community declined by the 1940s, descendants of pioneer Reynard families still live in Houston County. (1989)
Marker No: 7034
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 31.420119,-95.633286
Location: 7 miles west of Grapeland on FM 227, then 3.4 miles south at intersection with FM 2544
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