Five Hundred NinetyFirst in the Famous People (FP) Series - John Gregg
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EARLY
SULPHUR BLUFF
FIRST SETTLEMENT IN HOPKINS COUNTY
Texas State Historical Marker
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FM 71 at CR 3608, 15 mi. NE of Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, TX, USA
Latitude & Longitude: 33.332683, -95.396317 |
First known settlers in area were family of John Gregg. Their cemetery (2 mi. N) has marker dated 1837, from Republic of Texas era. Other early settlers were the brothers Hezekiah and Robert Hargrave, from Indiana. They built brush-roofed log homes (3 mi. N), on high bluff above Sulphur River, offering protection from Indians and providing abundant game.
Robert Hargrave, a mechanical genius, built a wood and iron shop, a blacksmith shop, and a grist mill that drew customers from Caddo Mills, 50 miles away.
A post office was built 1849; early school was founded 1852.
The cache is a 2ml plastic cryo tube
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