First United Methodist Church of Junction TX12161
First United Methodist Church of Junction

Early Junction residents built brush arbors for religious meetings, and by the 1870s, the city had an active Methodist Society, which hosted traveling ministers, such as the fiery "Fighting Parson" Andrew Jackson Potter. The Junction Methodists became a mission church of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1881. Members built a sanctuary and parsonage in 1889, and the congregation continued to grow. Gov. Coke R. Stevenson, who grew up in the congregation, served on the building committee for the church's 1930 Spanish mission-style sanctuary. Today, the church continues to be a center for worship, education and community activity.

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Glenn Cemetery TX7048

Glenn Cemetery, in Hood County, was established to serve residents of Bluff Dale, an Erath County community west of this site. Andrew Jackson Glenn, for whom the burial ground is named, donated land for cemetery use in 1897. There were already graves on the property by then, the earliest dating to 1867. Many prominent early residents of Bluff Dale, including Glenn and veterans of military conflicts dating to the Civil War, are interred here. For more than 100 years, Glenn Cemetery has served residents of Bluff Dale and the surrounding area.

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State Cemetery of Texas TX12031

Burial Ground for the honored dead of Texas, this cemetery contains the remains of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas"; nine governors of Texas (as of 1968); and representatives of every period of state history and every department of state government.

Satuary at the graves includes a marble figure Albert Sidney Johnston by Elisabet Ney and bronzes of Austin and Joanna Troutman by Pompeo Coppini.

The Cemetery was founded in 1851 when Gen. Edward Burleson, hero of the Texas Revolution, was interred on this tract.  In 1854, the state purchased the land, which had once belonged to Andrew Jackson Hamilton, provisional Governor of Texas from 1865 to 1866.

The cemetery was seldom used, however, until the 1860s, when some officers of the Confederate Army of Texas were buried here.  Today small, white marble headstones mark the graves of about 1,583 soldiers and 515 graves of members of their families.

Through the untiring efforts of Louis W. Kemp, a state official (1881-1956), the remains of over 100 prominent persons were reinterred here after 1930.

Since 1951 those elibible for burial here include designated state officials, confederate veterans, and certain others.  In 1968 there were 2,389 graves.

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Andrew Jackson Hamilton TX11990
A native of Alabama, Andrew Jackson Hamilton moved his family to Texas in the 1840s.  He served as state Attorney General and as a member of the state legislature before being elected to the U. S. Congress in 1859.  An opponent of secession, he left Texas during the Civil War but 1n 1865 was appointed Provisional Governor by President Andrew Johnson.  He was an associate justice on the Texas Supreme Court from 1867 to 1869, and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1866 and 1869.  He continued to practice law in Austin until his death in 1875.

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Jackson's Military Road 3F27
Joining the present highway from the trace of the old road to the north, this road, completed by Army Engineers under Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson in 1820, ran from Columbia, TN, via Columbus, Miss., to Madisonville, La. It cut 220 miles from the distance from Nashville to New Orleans via the Natchez Trace.

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Camp Blount 3G11
Here in Oct. 1813, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson mobilized from the Tennessee militia a mounted brigade, an artillery company and an infantry division, about 3,500 men, for punitive operations in Mississippi territory, now Alabama. Brig. Gen. John Coffee commanded the mounted troops; Brig. Gens. Hall and Roberts the infantry brigades.

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Bell Witch 3C38
To the north was the farm of John Bell, an early prominent settler from North Carolina. According to legend, his family was harried during the early 19th century by the famous Bell Witch. She kept the household in turmoil, assaulted Bell, and drove off Betsy Bell's suitor. Even Andrew Jackson who came to investigate, retreated to Nashville after his coach wheels stopped mysteriously. Many visitors to the house saw the furniture crash about them and heard her shriek, sing, and curse.

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Riggs Tavern 1B32
Built by Samuel Riggs before 1800. Andrew Jackson, Prince Louis Phillipe and other notables stopped here. It was the scene of the killing of Crockett Cain by friends of Bill Bewley, who had been killed by Cain a few minutes previously, in the bloody Cain-Bewley feud during the War Between the States.

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Rocky Mount 1A7
300 yards to the southeast is the restored home of William Cobb, pioneer. First seat of government of the Southwest Territory, October 10, 1790: Governor William Blount had headquarters here until removal to Knoxville, the new Capital, in 1792. Andrew Jackson lived here six weeks while waiting for a license to practice law.

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Jonesborough Turnpike 1A69
It crosses the highway here. Originally a branch of the Great War and Trading Path, it was later an important route from Virginia to the west. The first mail route between Richmond and Washington ran over it. Many notables used it, including Andrew Jackson, enroute to his first inauguration.

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