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 Tennessee Colony
N 31° 50.137 W 095° 50.398
15R E 231223 N 3525731
Texas Historical Marker at the Tennessee Colony Church at the intersection of FM 321 and FM 645, providing some history of this community.
Waymark Code: WMZFJF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2018
Views: 3
Marker Number: 8817
Marker Text:
Founded in 1838 by settlers who came from the Old South by wagons, seeking fertile, watered farm lands. Later their cotton shipped from Magnolia Ferry on the Trinity created great wealth. Early businesses were a general store, blacksmith shop, cabinet shop (which made furniture still found in area). Town was trade center for places as far away as Dallas. The Plantation Era reached a climax in grandeur on the properties of F.S. Jackson, a settler from Virginia.
Circuit riders held religious services in homes until a log cabin church could be built, probably in late 1838; a second log church succeeded this one.
Masons attended the Lodge in Magnolia for years, but in 1857 obtained charter for Tyre Lodge No. 198, A.F. & A.M., in Tennessee Colony. They then worked to build a 2-story church-school-lodge hall, which was finished in 1860 (and was to be used until 1948). The schools were outstanding, especially those taught by a Mr. Hooker and by Professor Sidney Newsome. They drew patronage from Palestine and other area towns. Remembered students included Addison and Randolph Clark, later to become founders of a college that would be forerunner of Texas Christian University.
Descendants of original colonists still live here. (1971)
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