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Wise County Historical Society, Inc.

Wise County Historical Commission

Historical Markers in Wise County

Click on the links below to find out more about each historic marker.   To learn more about the other markers or to locate any of them on a map, click here.

1. City of Alvord
2. Near Site of Anneville School
3. Audubon
4. Aurora Cemetery
5. Babb Cemetery
6. Ball Knob Cemetery
7. Battle of the Knobs
8. Bridgeport Coal Mines
9. Toll Bridge and Bridgeport
10. Brown Hotel
11. Cattle Trail Crossing
12. First Baptist Church of Chico
13. Methodist Church of Chico
14. Cottondale
15. Decatur Baptist College
16. Decatur United Methodist Church
17. First National Bank of Decatur
18. Deep Creek Community
19. Site of Old Draco
20. East Mound Cemetery and School
21. Episcopal Mission of the Ascension
22. A. H. Fortenberry
23. Flat Rock Cemetery
24. Gose Trees
25. Greenwood
26. Hanna-Robinson-Richey Drugstore
27. History of Hopewell Cemetery
28. Hyde Cemetery
29. Huff Family Massacre
30. Indian Captives, Dot and Biance Babb
31. Old Campsite of Jess and Frank James
32. Keeter Cemetery
33. Texas Ranger Capt. Ira Long
34. Masonic Lodge # 512, Alvord
35. Dr. M. W. Mathews
36. R. C. Mount Home
37. Robert Calvin Mount
38. Mount Zion Baptist Church and Jonestown Cemetery
39. Oak Grove United Methodist Church
40. Oak Lawn Cemetery
41. First Post Office in Wise County, Odessa
42. Old Stone Prison
43. Olive Branch Cemetery
44. Pleasant Grove # 2, Church Cemetery and School
45. First Christian Church of Paradise
46. George Layfette Ramsdale
47. Dr. William Renshaw
48. First National Bank of Rhome
49. Sand Hill Community
50. Slidell
51. Capt. George Stevens
52. Teague Cemetery
53. Charles Vernon Terrell
54. General Ernest O. Thompson
55. The S. W. Tilghman House
56. Thurmond-Fairview Cemetery
57. Randolph Vesey 1832-1908
58. Randolph (Uncle Ran) Vesey
59. Wise County Courthouse (National Register)
60. Wise County Messenger
61. Wise County Poor Farm and Cemetery
62. Wise County Reunion
63. Sam Woody Cabin
64. Chico Roughneck
65. Boonsville Roughneck
66. Waggoner Mansion (Medallion)
67. Butterfield Trail Marker
68. Wise County Veterans
69. Wise County CSA
70. Memorial for Citizens of the Republic of Texas, John Gilley
71. Lost Battalion Headquarters Battery
72. Willow Point Cemetery
73. Samuel J. Evetts
74. Bridgeport Lodge # 487
75. George Lawson Bledsoe
76. Waggoner Cemetery
77. Siddons-Barnes Cabin
78. Paschal
79. Rush Creek
80. Preskitt
81. Texas Tourist Court Complex ( Petrified Wood Station) (National Register)
82. Boyd Masonic Lodge # 479
83. Bridgeport First United Methodist Church
84. Masonic Lodge # 587, Bridgeport
85. United Methodist Church of Rhome
86. Rhoads Family Cemetery

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