Details for Old Livery Stable
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5315008066
Data
Marker Number | 8066 |
Atlas Number | 5315008066 |
Marker Title | Old Livery Stable |
Index Entry | Livery Stable |
Address | Austin and Vale St. |
City | Jefferson |
County | Marion |
UTM Zone | 15 |
UTM Easting | 374066 |
UTM Northing | 3625114 |
Subject Codes | livery stables |
Marker Year | 1968 |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | Yes |
Marker Location | |
Private Property | No |
Marker Condition | In Situ |
Marker Size | Medallion & Plate |
Marker Text | Near Trammel's Trace, a road charted 1813, used by thousands of settlers migrating to Texas. Site was owned 1868 by D. B. Culberson, later a congressman and a lawyer for defense in the Diamond Bessie murder trial. Culberson's 2-story building here was original site for the Chesterfield Club, East Texas' elite social group, 1870s-1930s. Present structure, built about 1900, housed horses and buggies for public hire until auto age. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1968 |