Old Harrison
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
N 31° 31.432 W 097° 01.055
14R E 688227 N 3489365
Texas Historical Marker in a pullout on W Lake Creek Rd just south of TX 6, noting this as the site of the now-vanished town of Harrison, today surviving apparently as a rural community.
Waymark Code: WM13ZRQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/20/2021
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
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While the Handbook of Texas's entry for Harrison looks to be about twenty years old, it refers to Harrison in the present, with a population of a hundred in 2000. Harrison's heyday is probably what is being referenced by "1871-1915".
Marker Number: 3685

Marker Text:
1871-1915

Named for Confederate General James E. Harrison, kinsman of U.S. President Wm. Henry Harrison and close friend of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Born in South Carolina. Early settler, political leader and landowner in McLennan and Falls counties.

Member of the Texas Secession Convention. As an adopted son of Chickasaw Indian Tribe, headed special Civil War missions in Indian Territory.

As a stockholder in Waco Tap Railway, gave right-of-way and site for Harrison station. Town had post office, school, stores, churches, gins, gristmills. (1965)
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