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Peter Whetstone, pioneer leader, city father; Louis T. Wigfall, U.S. Senator, later Confederate Senator; Kevin Williams, NFL running back; Romeo M. Williams, prominent civil rights attorney who played a pivotal role in the desegregation of Marshall, Texas.; [1] also a U.S. Army Air Force officer and trained fighter pilot with the Tuskegee ...
Marshall is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. [4] It is the county seat of Harrison County and a cultural and educational center of the Ark-La-Tex region. At the 2020 U.S. census, the population of Marshall was 23,392. [5]
Instead, Mary Marshall’s friends and family gathered to honor her memory. Mary Marshall, 34: Raleigh shooting victim was a veteran who taught others to be brave Skip to main content
Elizabethtown, once known as Bugtown, is a ghost town located about fifteen miles southwest of Denton in Denton County, Texas, United States. The town derived its original name from the adjacent Elizabeth Creek. The creek starts in northeast Roanoke and ends near Rhome, Haslet, and Avondale.
Starr Family Home State Historic Site is a 3.1-acre (1.3 ha) historical site operated by the Texas Historical Commission in downtown Marshall, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] The museum was made a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1986. [3]
The History of Marshall, Texas follows the State from its founding as an administrative center of the Republic of Texas, through its rise to be one of the largest cities in the early State of Texas, to its emergence as a major Confederate city, to its establishment as a major railroad hub of the United States in the late 19th century, through its national influence on the American Civil Rights ...
East Texas was the location of most of the cotton plantations in the state and, correspondingly, of most of the enslaved African Americans. Most of the fourteen Black-majority, plantation counties were located in East Texas. By 1850, landowners in Harrison County held more slaves than in any other county in Texas until the end of the Civil War ...