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Chappell Hill is an unincorporated community in the eastern portion of Washington County, Texas, United States. It is located inside Stephen F. Austin 's original colony, and the land is some of the oldest Anglo -settled in the state.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
New Chapel Hill is a city in Smith County, Texas, United States. The population was 620 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Tyler, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Henry's Chapel is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 75 in 2000. It is located within the Tyler-Jacksonville combined statistical area .
Minters Chapel was founded c1854 when Peter's Colony Minister Green Washington Minter (1803-1887) moved to the area and established Minter's Chapel Methodist Church with the help of his son-in-law James Cate. The earliest grave in the church cemetery is that of A.M. Newton in 1857.
Smith County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 233,479. [1] Its county seat is Tyler. [2] Smith County is named for James Smith, a general during the Texas Revolution.
In 1849, Chappell Hill's founders, Jacob Haller and Mary Hargrove Haller, dedicated an acre, adjacent to the Chappell Hill Academy, for a church site. Five years earlier the national Methodist Episcopal Church had split into a Northern and Southern conference after being united since the founding of Methodism in America in 1789.
It was built in 1850 by Mary Elizabeth Haller (née Hargrove), the founder of Chappell Hill. Mary and her husband Jacob Haller (d. 1853), the town's first postmaster , built the stately 14-room Greek Revival inn along the road from Houston to Austin , where some of Texas' first stagecoach lines, the Smith and Jones , and later the F. P. Sawyers ...