​The Erasmus M. Hanna House

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Marker No: 7731

Medallion & Plate

Texas Historic Landmark

Geographic: 32.145325,-95.120903

Location: 118 North Georgia Street, Troup

Marker Text: Built about 1872 by Dr. Hanna, one of founders of Troup, and an investor in East Texas railroads and clay industries. Besides his medical practice, his interests included first hotel in Troup. Wife, Virginia Morris Hanna, was daughter of East Texas pioneers, Judge and Mrs. Stephen Decatur Morris. Five generations of Hanna descendants have lived here.
​     Victorian architecture. Beaded bay windows; high-arched gables. Of cypress, pine, cedar woods. ​(1968)