Historic Sites in Rusk, TX

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First built 1861 as the means for residents east of valley to get to town during rainy seasons. Rebuilt in 1889 by T....

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- Jim Hogg State Historical Park is 178.4 acres of East Texas Pineywoods east of Rusk in Cherokee County. The pr...

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Cherokee County has a rich and varied history. Spanish and French explorers of the Seventeenth Century found Tejas an...

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New Birmingham was a boom town nearby in the late 1880s built around local iron ore operations. The furnaces, capable...

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Originally built by prison labor to transport iron ore and wood to a prison operated iron smelter, the lin...

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Organized in 1891 at the Shiloh schoolhouse by members of the Baptist Church of Christ at Corinth, this church was or...

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History in a Pecan Shell Like other towns in Cherokee County, settlers were living in the area prior to the C...

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Attorney James N. Thomas (b. 1816) erected the one-story portion of this residence before 1851. James I. Perkins (184...

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- Texas State Railroad State Historical Park, 499 acres, is located in Anderson and Cherokee Counties, between t...

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Formed by 15 young single women in 1902 with fewer than 50 books, this library club would later donate to the City of...

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In 1836, General Sam Houston negotiated a treaty with the Cherokees in Texas allowing possession of the lands they oc...

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Founded 1846. Named for Republic of Texas Statesman Thomas J. Rusk. Industrial site and supply depot in the Civil War...

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Wyatt Thomas Norman and William Harrison Shook, both Cherokee County natives, opened a law office on the Courthouse S...

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History in a Pecan Shell First settled before (but not developed until) the Civil War, Atoy briefly had a pos...

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Birthplace of James Stephen Hogg, son of Lucanda McMath Hogg and Joseph Lewis Hogg. Born March 24, 1851. Died March 3...

Rusk Footbridge