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Salado United Methodist Church TX6389
In 1854, the Rev. Thomas Gilmore, a Methodist circuit rider, led a revival at Pecan Grove on the north side of Salado Creek. He organized a Methodist Church and a Union Sunday School in a small frame building. During the next decades, the congregation met in a brush arbor and at Salado College before constructing a Carpenter Gothic sanctuary in 1890 on the corners of Stagecoach and Church streets. Initially served by pastors on the Belton circuit of the Methodist Church, the congregation became part of the Salado circuit, or charge, which included churches in Bartlett, Bell Plains and Prairie Dell. At the turn of the 20th century, the Salado circuit remained active, with an Epworth League for the church youth and a missionary, Emma Stone (Poteet) Pilley, serving overseas in Japan and China. Members also started a church library. By 1910, the circuit consisted of the Salado, Bell Plains and Prairie Dell congregations, which all continued to thrive. Each included programs such as vacation bible school and the Women's Society of Christian Service, as well as active youth and Sunday School programs. The Bell Plains church consolidated with the Salado church in 1940, and in 1951, the Prairie Dell members did the same, moving their long-time sanctuary to Salado to serve as a fellowship hall for their new congregation. With a strong historic foundation of three area congregations, Salado United Methodist Church has continued to grow and thrive, contributing to its community through various programs and services. Due to area development, the church moved to this site in 2005, incorporating its 1890 sanctuary within new facilities.
Jones Chapel United Methodist Church TX3527
This church, organized in 1888, was originally known as Jones Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church. At first, it was part of a circuit, and ministers often traveled by stagecoach or horseback as they rotated Sunday services among churches. Jones Chapel shared the Rev. J.T. Jacobs with Fannin Street Methodist Church in Goliad, and during its first year held services in a schoolhouse. In 1889, members built a sanctuary on land that Capt. A.C. Jones donated to three former slaves who served as trustees of the new church. Charter members included Classie Douglas, Ann Felix, Felix Garner, Lawson Green, Serena Hodge, Ellen Jones, Bell Lott, Leanna Lott, Mose Lott, J.J. McCloud, Carrie McCampbell, P.M. McCarty, Kimmie Nancy, Elvira Newton, Rebecca Simms, Wesley Simms, I.E. Starnes, George Steward, Katy Ware, Sam Ware, Harriet Williams and Mary Williams, and many of the church's early members were former slaves. Although members have remodeled and repaired the church several times over the years and have made additions, such as a bell tower in 1913, the church is still at its original location. The congregation remains active in Beeville's African American community. Members take part in Bee County's Juneteenth festivities and participate in a variety of programs, including outreach ministries to help youth and the economically disadvantaged. Members also aim to provide food and other necessities to shut-ins in the community. Even after more than 100 years, Jones Chapel fervently continues to serve the African American community in Beeville.
History of Clinton - 1836 MO585
1836
Largest City in Henry County County Commissioners chose the site of Clinton in 1836. Daniel Morgan Boone, first son of the famous Daniel Boone, was one of these commissioners. The following year, when the population of the town had yet to reach 50, construction of the courthouse began on the last high ground heading west. Although the original courthouse was razed in 1887, the current one (built in 1892) is located on the same site. Both courthouses served as focal point for the largest public square in Missouri, and one of the largest in the nation.
The Golden Valley Golden Valley settlers were primarily agrarian, but within a generation, Clinton boosted of a brick courthouse, a two-story log tavern, a stagecoach depot and a two-story brick residence known as the Judge Dorman home (Now in the National Register of Historic Places). As was true in many rural towns, the Civil War kept prosperity at bay. Three separate skirmishes were fought in Clinton between 1862 and 1864. Henry County's position in the war is reflected in the fact that it supplied over 10 men to the Confederate Army for every one man to the Union.
[Upper Photo: Henry County's first courthouse was built in 1837 on the last high ground heading west, as shown in this 1880's photo.]
[Middle Photo: Judge Jurubial Gideon Dorman, a leading Clinton businessman and representative to Missouri's 27th General Assembly, was the first passenger off the first Katy train into Clinton, Aug. 23, 1870.]
[Bottom Photo: The Judge Dorman residence was the largest home in Clinton at the time it was built in 1852. The house is in the National Register of Historic Places.]
The Dorman House MO576
The Dorman House The house was the largest in Clinton at the time it was built, therefore, many social and civic events took place here. Judge Dorman owned one of the first mercantile stores in Clinton as well as many acres of farmland. Greek Revival in style, the original small, two-story front porch was removed and a larger one added. Each of the original six rooms had a fireplace. The woodwork and many windows are original. A stagecoach stop was located on this intersection of Franklin and Water Streets as well as barracks for soldiers during the Civil War as several skirmishes took place in this area. The Udolpha Miller Droman Chapter of the DAR was organized in this home. When Clinton Main Street purchased the home, it was the first time the house had left the Dorman family. Work continues for restoration and preservation. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places February 10, 1993.
The Martin Hotel MO470
Placed on National Register of Historic sites in Washington, D.C. 1978. Restoration of Martin Hotel Listed on the National Register of Historic Places This project has been funded with the assistance of a matching grant from the Department of the Interior National Park Service and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks, Historic Preservation Program under provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. For more than a century, the Martin family sheltered and fed many weary travelers passing through Versailles. In November 1853, Virginians Samuel and Elizabeth Martin pulled their wagon into Versailles, then little more than a clearing with a few houses and weed-filled streets. The second day there they met a woman who operated a rooming house and offered her lease to the Martins for one hundred dollars a year. The couple started their business with two extra beds and a dining room table where guests ate with the family. Deer steaks were a staple, and their daughter Lucy's eighteen-egg angel food cake became well known. Rates were one dollar a day -- twenty-five cents a meal for three meals and twenty-five cents for a bed. After a year, the Martins bought a lot from the city for three hundred dollars, which included the log building they used as a hotel before erecting a frame structure in 1877 and an adjoining brick building in the 1880s. During the Civil War, the Martins fed both Union and Confederate troops on IOUs that were never paid. Mrs. Martin said she never had any trouble "except the time the Federals were going to shoot my husband." Versailles was not a friendly place for a Southern sympathizer. Their daughter Sally, who was crippled, went to the courthouse on her crutches and begged for mercy for her father. The soldiers decided the girl needed him more than the North needed his life. Martin also recalled when a dozen Northerners came to look for two rebels they suspected were hiding in the hotel. After a fruitless search, the men ate and left, never discovering that she had disguised one of the soldiers as a woman -- who had served the table where his enemies sat. Over the years thousands of salesmen, stagecoach travelers, and train passengers boarded at the hotel. P.T. Barnum and Jesse James were among its guests. After Elizabeth Martin died in 1930 at 103, her daughters continued to operate the hotel. In 1954, Lucy's nephew, Foster Brown, assumed management, and thirteen years later, the Morgan County Historical Society purchased the frame half of the hotel, restored several rooms and opened a museum. In 1974 the society purchased the brick side, and in 1978 the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Montvale Springs 1E42
7 1/2 miles S., this resort was termed the Saratoga of the South in stagecoach days. First advertised in 1832; Daniel Foute built a log hotel there in 1837. In 1853, Asa Watson, of Mississippi, built the Seven Gable Hotel. Sidney Lanier spent much of his boyhood there. The hotel burned in 1896, rebuilt 1898, burned again in 1933. A boys' summer camp is there now.
In Search of the Pony Express KS180
ADDED STATION Jul. 1, 1861 - Sep. 13, 1861 A little over a quarter of a mile to the southwest was a Pony Express Station called Troy. This was due to its close proximity to the town of Troy, Kansas. It was owned and operated by Henry Thompson and had 16 rooms and a tavern. To save money the Pony Express Company contracted with local owners to use their sites for their stations in Kansas. The Pony Express started on April 3, 1860 and ended on November 20, 1861. This site was not an original station. It was an added station and first used on July 1, 1861. By August 28, 1861 the Pony Express Mail was carried by Stagecoach from St. Joseph to Ft. Kearny and not by the Pony Express Horse. This route stopped being used on September 14, 1861 when the headquarters in St. Joseph was moved to Atchison.
Site of the First Masonic Hall in Fort Worth TX2006
After many years of debate, Fort Worth researchers identified this site in 1957 as the location of the city's first Masonic Lodge. For more than twenty years, lodge members met in a two-story hall at this location. The group organized in 1854 and received its charter the following year as Fort Worth Masonic Lodge No. 148, A.F. & A.M. Members initially rented space for meetings and began construction on their own lodge hall in 1857. The new building offered space for lodge functions on the second floor, which was a single room, and the Masonic group operated a school on the ground level. The first floor space was divided into two rooms and was available for public meetings and church services. Donated to the lodge by Middleton T. Johnson, the site of the lodge once lay outside the city's populated area. The hall sat well beyond the old fort grounds, and even at about four blocks east of the public square it was built on unplatted land outside the city's business district. Although plain in appearance, the red-brick building signified progress and civilization. Its two stories faced west with a bell tower over the main entrance. In 1871, Lawrence Steel, a member, sold the lodge an English-made bell (c.1782) that became known as the Masonic bell. It rang to announce stagecoach arrivals, fires and the start of the school day. By 1878, the Masons had outgrown their lodge hall at this site, and they moved to a new building at Second and Main. Lodge No. 148 has continued to be a strong presence in the community, spawning an additional fifteen lodges in Fort Worth.
Shield's Station TN39
As early as 1792 this was the property of James McDaniel who was killed near here by Indians. After 1833 a stagecoach stop was maintained here by Dr. Samuel Shields. For many years the house was a residence, as well as a post office, store, and medical dispensary which served the surrounding areas.
Wickerham Inn 1800-01 OH2-1
The inn was built 1800-01 by Peter Wickerham, a Revolutionary War veteran. It was used as an overnight stagecoach stop and tavern on Zane's Trace until ca. 1850. Runaway slaves were hidden here when the "Underground Railroad" was in operation. Confederate soldiers, commanded by General John Hunt Morgan, slept in the inn on the night of July 15, 1863, when "Morgan's Raiders" passed through Adams County. Display # 1 - 10 of 148 |