Map of Historical Markers

Judge James Hooker

Prominent Pioneer
One of five town commissioners named in Legislative acts creating Hunt county
(1966 Texas historical grave marker)

Prominent Hunt County Pioneer Judge James Hooker

1807-1865

Came to Texas 1840. Granted a 640-acre head right by republic of Texas. Served as commissioner to organize county and locate county seat. First postmaster of hooker's mill settlement where he owned area's first steam mill. Town important stop on Clarksville to Austin road. Represented county in fourth and sixth legislatures. Member of secession convention. Buried here on his head right.

Captain Henry W. Wade

Captain in Confederate Army
Delegate from Hunt County to Constitutional Convention framing present Texas Constitution in 1875
Grandfather of noted Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade
(1971 Texas Historical Grave Marker)
Wade Cemetery, SH 34, Quinlan

Served with distinction in Civil War (1861-65) as Captain in Confederate Army, CO. B, 6th Texas Cavalry, Ross Brigade. A native of Kentucky, He came to Hunt County as a young man. In 1859 married Elizabeth J. Kuykendall and made a home on 640-acre tract of which this cemetery is a part. Represented County in Texas Consititutional Convention of 1875. In his private life, raised and sold livestock throughout the state.

Lone Oak Baptist Church

Organized in 1858
Present building is congregation's third building at this site
(1970, modified 1982 Texas Historical Marker)
McBride and Olive Streets, Lone Oak

Organized 1858 by W.M. Pickett and Benj. Watson. The charter members were Thos. Hooker, first pastor; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Simpson' n. T. Featherston; Jane Pitts; Harriet lively; and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McBride, who gave site for first church. After it burned, present one was built, 1899. Recorded Texas historic landmark - 1970

Lake Tawakoni

Impounded for water supply and recreation in 1960 by Sabine River Authority.
Boasts Texas' Longest Inland Bridge.
(1970 Texas Historical Marker)
SH 35, marker at west end of causeway

Lake Tawakoni is one of the largest lakes wholly within Texas completed 1960, it covers 36,700 acres. Impounded by 5.5-mile-long iron bridge dam on Sabine River, it has a shore line of 200 miles. Constructed and owned by the Sabine River authority of Texas. Financed by the city of Dallas under terms of a water supply contract. Other towns also buy lake's water. Prehistoric animal bones and remains of a Tawakoni Indian village were discovered here. The lake is operated under iron bridge division, S.R.A. of Texas. It embraces wind Point Park, a public recreational resort

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City of Quinlan

Settled 1892 as stop on Texas Midland Railroad
Incorporated 1896
(1995 Texas Historical Marker)
Main Street at City Hall Quinlan

The city of Quinlan began about 1892 as a stop on the Texas midland railroad. Owned by famed bond investor Hattie Green, called by the contemporary press "the witch of wall street", the railroad was operated by her son, Edward H.R. Green. Texas midland became a subsidiary of the Houston & Texas central railroad, and the city which built up around a depot constructed here between the towns of Roberts and Greenville was named Quinlan in honor of George a. Quinlan, the general manager of the Houston & Texas central railroad.

A post office opened in Quinlan in 1894, and by 1896 the city was incorporated. Harry Ford served as first mayor. Quinlan soon became the center of a large agricultural area, providing a railroad shipping point for growers of cotton and other crops. By the early 20th century the town boasted three cotton gins, numerous businesses and fraternal organizations, banks, schools, churches, and homes. Oil exploration and production overtook cotton farming as the area's economic base in the 1930S and 1940S, and the construction of Lake Tawakoni in the 1950S brought another economic boost to the community

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Town of Roberts

Founded in 1882 as a stop on Houston and Texas Central Railroad
Station removed in 1894
Town destroyed by fire in 1895
(1998 Texas Historical Marker)
SH 34 at Bus 34, Quinlan

In 1882 the Houston and Texas central railroad bought 100 acres of land from Texas governor Oran Roberts. As the terminus of the company's northeastern line, Roberts quickly attracted business people. The town boasted a school for white children and another for black students, a post office with daily mail service, a doctor, a blacksmith, a carpenter, dry goods and grocers, general stores, and saloons. Roberts gained a reputation as a boomtown, full of opportunity and vice.

In 1892 the bankrupt Houston and Texas central sold its northeastern line to New Yorker Hefty Green who reorganized the railroad as the Texas Midland under the leadership of her son Edward "Ned" Green. A land dispute between the two railroad companies led Ned Green to purchase land just north of Roberts, establishing a depot there and platting the new town of Quinlan. Merchants and business people soon moved their facilities to Quinlan, followed by the First Missionary Baptist Church of Roberts and others wishing to escape Roberts’ lawlessness. The Quinoa depot and post office were dedicated on October 17, 1894; the Roberts depot was dismantled by railroad agents the following day. A fire of unknown origin destroyed Roberts in 1895.

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Lone Oak Methodist Church

Congregation formed in 1854
Present building completed in 1889
(1988 Recorded Texas Historic Landmark)
Main Street, 2 blocks west of US 69, Lone Oak

The history of this church can be traced to 1854, when eleven charter members gathered together in a private home west of lone oak to organize a Methodist congregation. Occasionally served by circuit riding ministers, the members constructed a church guild in 1871 which they shared with the local Masonic lodge. Continued growth and the loss of the first building in an 1884 fire led to the construction of this vernacular gothic revival structure in 1889. Featuring twin bracketed towers and lancet windows. it continues to serve the congregation.

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