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422 East Third Street, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
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Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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Built 1895 by Charles O. and Mary Jane (Davis) Lide, who with their 3 sons were leaders in business, civic, and church circles. This is one of city's oldest houses. Some interior woodwork was milled in Saint Louis. Late Victorian architecture. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark -- 1971
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Directions from the Titus County Court House:
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Travel 0.3 miles south on Madison Street to Ferguson Road. Turn left (east) on Ferguson Road (which becomes Texas Highway 49) and travel 3.8 miles on Highway 49 to the intersection of Texas FM 1735 (Chapel Hill Road).
Turn right onto FM 1735 and continue for 6.1 miles to the intersection (from the left) with County Road 4865. Turn left onto CR 4865 and proceed 0.5 miles.
You will see a pipe gate on the left that is the entrance to the residence. NOTICE: This is an occupied private residence. Visitors should not enter property without permission!
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Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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Built 1850 by slaves for Wm. Augusta Old, pioneer settler from Tennessee. Some supporting timbers hewn on the site measure 40 feet in length. Cypress lumber hand-planed on one side, hauled from Jefferson. Remains under Old family ownership. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966.
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Directions from the Titus County Court House:
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Drive 8.7 miles north on Jefferson Street (Business U.S. 271, which later becomes U.S. 271) to the intersection of Titus County Road 1465. Turn right (east) on CR-1465 and drive 0.2 miles. The Bridges Chapel Cemetery driveway is 0.2 miles east of U.S. 271, and the Stonewall School sits on the left (north) side of CR-1465 at the left side of the driveway.
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This school traces its origin to educational instruction held in Bridges Chapel's First Methodist Church structure from 1867 until the early 1880s. According to local tradition a young teacher encouraged the community to "stand together like a stone wall" and a much needed school building was erected about 1884. A new school structure, built here in 1898 and enlarged about 1916 was razed and replaced by a two-room structure in 1953. The Stonewall School joined the Mount Pleasant Independent School District as a result of falling enrollment and closed its doors in 1957.
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Directions from the Titus County Court House:
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Drive 1.0 mile north on Jefferson Street (U.S. Highway 271 Business) to the intersection of U.S. Highway 67 (16th Street). Turn right (east) on U.S. 67 and continue 8.7 miles to a rest area located on the right side of U.S. Highway 67. The Historic Marker is located in the rest area, near the highway. You will pass through Cookville, Texas approximately 1.7 miles before reaching the rest area.
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Formed from Red River and Bowie counties. Created May 11, 1846 and organized July 13, 1846. Named in honor of Andrew J. Titus 1814-1855. Pioneer of northwest Texas, soldier in the Mexican War. Member of the Texas Legislature. County seat, Mt. Pleasant.
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This marker has been vandalized and the bronze Texas Star has been stolen from its front
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Titus County C.S.A. (Civil War) - Marker # 11185
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North corner of Court House Square, near North Madison & West Second Streets, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
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Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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Created and organized in 1846. Named for pioneer resident Andrew Jackson Titus (1814-1855), who opened county's first road, to river port in Jefferson. Until after the Civil War, Titus County also included areas of present-day Franklin and Morris counties. Six mail routes going by horseback, had pack mules to follow lead horse. High waters in creeks and Sulphur River often halted travel. Record time to haul cotton to Jefferson was 5 days by ox wagon. In 1860 had 9,648 people. Voted 411 to 275 in favor of secession. Sent 10 military companies to Civil War. While home tables drew heavily on game foods (deer, wild turkeys, pigeons, bear), county furnished Confederate commissary with beef, butter, corn, rice, cotton, oats, sweet potatoes, flour, cornmeal, leather, lumber, pottery, tobacco, whiskey and wool. Wartime manufacturing plants included 9 sawmills, 8 gristmills, tanneries and a steam powered distillery. Mount Pleasant had a Confederate transportation depot employing blacksmiths, carpenters, harness makers, wheelwrights. It procured equipment and horses and mules, and made gear, harness and wagons for the purpose of moving men, army supplies and government owned cotton.
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Directions from the Titus County Court House:
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Drive 1.0 mile north on Jefferson Street (U.S. Highway 271 Business) to the intersection of U.S. Highway 67 (16th Street). Turn left (west) on U.S. 67 and continue 8.0 miles to its intersection with Texas Farm Road 1734 near Winfield, Texas. Turn right (north) on Texas FM-1734 and continue 1.3 miles to the intersection ot Titus County Road 1165. Turn left (north) on CR-1165 and travel 2.0 miles to the intersection of Titus County Road 1220. Turn left on CR-1220. The church is 0.1 mile on the left and is visible from the intersection.
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This congregation began in 1886 when the Methodist sanctuary in Tranquil (2 mi. E) was moved to this site. The land was donated by charter members E. J. and E. M. Killingsworth. In 1909, the building was razed to make room for a new structure that would better serve the needs of a growing membership. Over the years, the congregation has made its building available for use by other community churches. Several members of the fellowship have become ordained Methodist ministers.
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Texas Farm Road 127 South, Monticello community
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Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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The community of Monticello dates from the 1850s and was named for Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia. The government awarded a post office on May 5, 1857, with Cicero J. Corder as the first postmaster. Theodore Stiewig, a later postmaster, operated a steam mill which was the largest business in the community. The settlement remained small, and in the 1890s Monticello had stores, blacksmiths, two mills, two gins, a brick factory and a school. The community historically supported Monticello Baptist and Spring Hill churches. Minutes of the area Rehoboth Baptist Association first reference Monticello Baptist Church in 1878. That year, E. Blanton was pastor and J.W. Barrow and E.Y. Bynum were messengers to the association meeting. The church first met on Bynum's land, and in 1919 the congregation moved here, on one acre sold by W.P. and Stella Jones. A new church building was erected soon after. The wood frame sanctuary is a cross-gabled T-plan building with paired double-hung wood windows and shiplap wood siding. Congregation members donated pine trees, hauled by mule-drawn wagons to Will Taylor's planing mill to saw into lumber. About 19 members worked on the church and construction took three months to finish, being completed in November 1919. The church has been a spiritual and social center for the community since its founding. During the 1950s, church members sewed quilts donated to the Texarkana Baptist Orphanage and the Lena Pope Home for Orphans in Fort Worth. By the early 21st century, area land was being used for recreational lakes and lignite mining, and the church was one of few historic resources remaining in Monticello. The congregation remains active although church services are held infrequently. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2007
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