Site of FIRST Upshur County Court - Upshur County, TX
N 32° 45.218 W 094° 58.055
15S E 315672 N 3625687
A 1964 Texas Historical Marker on the north side of Cherokee Trace, nearly three miles northwest of Gilmer, notes this as the area of the original town site, where the first Upshur County Court met back in 1845.
Waymark Code: WM19BDF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/15/2024
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The tree is long gone, and the marker is brief:
Here on the Cherokee Trace was early Gilmer. On this spot in 1845 the first Upshur County Court convened under an oak.
In spring 1846, Judge O.M. Roberts designated the nearby W.H. Hart home as courthouse until a permanent county seat could be "carefully located."
Old Gilmer Cemetery is one mile north.
The Handbook of Texas Online (see URL) corroborates that this is the correct location, but the only nearby cemetery listed by Findagrave is the Cherokee Cemetery, about a mile away but dating only to the 1890s. The best known "Old Gilmer Cemetery" (a.k.a. "Old Mings Cemetery") is about three miles away and south of the town square.
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