Visitors Guide

Discover Jefferson

& Marion County

A Publication of Marion County Media

October, November, December 2020

Fall Holiday Celebrations & Events for Everyone

• Jefferson Burn Benefit •Texas Sounds • Taste of Jefferson • History Haunts & Legends • Jefferson Candlelight Tour of Homes

What’s Inside

Welcome to the first edition of Discover Jefferson & Marion County! This quarterly publication is focused on what’s happening in and around Jefferson, Marion County, Texas. We’re deep in the Northern Piney Woods, nestled between two lakes (Caddo Lake and Lake O’the Pines)and have opportunities for Romance, Adventure, and to Escape back to a simpler time. Enjoy this first issue and we hope to see you (again) in Jefferson and Marion County!

Table of Contents

Welcome to Historic Jefferson. 5 Fall Events............................ 13 About the Burn Benefit......... 21 About Texas Sounds............. 21 Jefferson Candlelight Tour of Homes.......................... 23 Map of City..................... 24-25 Tours and Attractions........... 36 Places to Stay....................... 40 Discover Jefferson & Marion County is published quarterly by Marion County Media. Find us online at marioncoherald.com

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Welcome To Historic Jefferson

Jefferson, the county seat of Marion County was founded in the early 1840s by Allen Urquhart and Daniel Alley.

The Methodist Church was established in 1844 in a log cabin at the same location where it is located today. It was the Methodist Episcopal Church at that time. In 1840, there was a circuit rider by the name of William Stevenson who preached in this area. The Methodist church was followed by the Presbyterian church between 1846 and 1850 and the Baptist church in 1855.

The first newspaper, the Jefferson Democrat first printed in 1847. In

the late 1830s, Urquhart received a headright on a bend in the creek; he laid out a townsite there around 1842. At about the same time, Alley obtained a 586-acre parcel adjacent to Urquhart’s survey and laid out additional streets that became known as Alley’s Addition. Unlike other town planners of that time, who mapped towns around a central square, Urquhart mapped the town along Big Cypress Creek, with its streets running at right angles to the bayou. Daniel Alley’s streets, on the other hand, followed the points of the compass. This gave the town Continued On Page 7...

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During the late 1840s efforts were made to clear Big Cypress Creek for navigation. Within a few years steamboats were regularly making the trip from Shreveport and New Orleans, transporting cotton and other produce downstream and returning with supplies and manufactured goods including material and furnishings for many of the early homes. Jefferson had emerged as the leading commercial and distribution center of Northeast Texas and the states leading inland port by the late 1840s.

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Construction of a railroad line began in 1860 but only 40 miles were completed by the outbreak of the Civil War. Jefferson men volunteered for military service in large numbers. After the war the town recovered quickly. A fire destroyed practically the entire business district in 1869, but it was rebuilt within a few years. In 1867 Jefferson became the first town in Texas to use natual gas for artificial lighting . and ice was first manufactured on a commercial scale.

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...Continued From Page 7 The first was the destruction of the Red River Raft, a natural dam on the river above Shreveport. In November of 1873, more importantly to Jefferson’s decline was the completion of the Texas and Pacific Railway from Texarkana to Marshall that bypassed Jefferson.

Although another line of the Texas and Pacific reached Jefferson the following year, the development of rail commerce and the rise of Marshall, Dallas, and other important rail cities brought an end to Jefferson’s golden age. After 1876, Jefferson began to decline. By 1885 the

population had gone from 7,297 to 3,500. During the 1870s, the attention was briefly diverted from the economic woes by the sensational murder trial of Diamond Bessie Moore. Moore, a native of New York state who had worked for a time as a prostitute in New Orleans and Hot Springs, arrived in Jefferson in January 1877 with her consort, Abraham Rothchild. A few days later, she was found murdered in the woods nearby. Rothchild was charged with the crime. The court battles that followed became one of the most celebrated trials of Continued On Page 11...

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...Continued From Page 9 the period. Rothchild was found not guilty and the case was never solved. The incident has continued to provoke fascination.

In 1971 roughly a forty-seven-block area containing fifty-six historic structures was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, some ten other buildings have been accorded National Register status, including the

antebellum Excelsior Hotel and the Planters Bank and Warehouse. Every year Jefferson sponsors a threeday spring historic pilgrimage to view these sites. Since 1955, the festivities have included a reenactment of the Diamond Bessie Murder Trial.

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Fall Events in Jefferson

Following is a list of events which are scheduled for October, November and December 2020.

October 2 • Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser • City Wide Rummage Sale October 3 • Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser • City Wide Rummage Sale • Classic Horror Movies at Made in the Shade October 4 • City Wide Rummage Sale October 9

• The Burn Benefit - Continuing the Ride • Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser October 10 • The Burn Benefit - Continuing the Ride • Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser • Classic Horror Movies at Made in the Shade October 15 • Texas Sounds International Country Music Awards October 16 • Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Continued On Page 15...

Fall Events

Kids Camp Fundraiser • Texas Sounds International Country Music Awards October 17 • Classic Horror Movies at Made in the Shade • Texas Sounds International Country Music Awards • Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser October 18 • 29th Annual Taste of Jefferson • Texas Sounds International Country Music Awards October 23 •Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser

October 24 • Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser October 30 • Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser October 31 •Shady Ladies Dance/Lions Club Kids Camp Fundraiser •Classic Horror Movies at Made in the Shade November 7 •”History Haunts & Legends X” November 14 • Artisan Show in the Courtyard/ Made in the Shade

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Fall Events

November 26 • Carriage House B&B Thanksgiving Dinner Public Welcome November 27 •Christmas Express Gas-Powered Train November 28 • Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at Lions Park • Hometown Christmas Parade • Christmas Express Gas-Powered Train December 3 • 36th Jefferson Candlelight Tour of Homes® December 4 •36th Jefferson Candlelight Tour of Homes®

December 5 •36th Jefferson Candlelight Tour of Homes® • Christmas Express Gas-Powered Train • Classic Christmas Movies at Made in The Shade • Outdoor Expo Gun & Knife Show December 6 • Outdoor Expo Gun & Knife Show December 10 • 36th Jefferson Candlelight Tour of Homes® December 11 •36th Jefferson Candlelight Tour of Homes®

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Fall Events

December 12 •36th Jefferson Candlelight Tour of Homes® • Classic Christmas Movies at Made in The Shade • Artisan Show in the Courtyard/ Made in the Shade • Christmas Express Gas-Powered Train December 18 • Christmas Express Gas-Powered Train December 19 • Breakfast with Santa Carriage House B&B • Christmas Express Gas-Powered Train

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About the Burn Benefit Continuing the Ride is an annual About Texas motorcycle rally. Each year in October we welcome you to Jefferson Texas to help raise money for burn Sounds survivors.

When Boo, the founder of the Boo Run Rally decided to retire everyone was very sad to see the event go. Well through the efforts of Michelle and Stan, it became the Jefferson Burn Benefit-Continue the Ride. They wanted to continue the work that Boo had started for the kids and Camp I’m Still Me. It is once again growing into a great event! So won’t you join us and continue that ride?

Musicians from around the world come to the City of Jefferson, Texas to compete in Texas Sounds International Music Awards.

October 15 - 18, 2020 A full 4-day weekend - Thursday - Sunday 4 days/nights of top international music artists from around the world come to Jefferson, Texas to compete in Texas Sounds International Music Awards.

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Dotson-King House 312 N. Walnut Street

In October 1862, Lucy VanDuzen Culberson Dotson (known as ‘L.V.’) and her husband, James B. Dotson, purchased the land at 312 North Walnut Street and built their home. Hopes and dreams for their lives and that of their 18 month old daughter Lula would be short-lived, however. The spring of 1863 found Dotson fighting with Company K of the 7th Texas Infantry. He died in the battle of Raymond, Mississippi on May 12, 1863.

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The original home consisted of three rooms and an outside kitchen with a couple of outbuildings on the property. Deed records show the construction of the original home in early 1863. The 1873 map of Jefferson shows the home and 2 out-buildings. “L.V.” never remarried and lived in the Walnut Street home until May 1905 when she sold the property to Minnie and James King The Kings significantly enlarged the house to nine rooms to accommodate their five children.

After the children married and left home, the Kings remodeled the home to accommodate boarders, as there was a huge “oil boom” in Marion and surrounding counties during the 1930’s-1940’s.

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...Continued From Page 23 In 1996, the home was sold to the current owner. In the process of renovation, several interesting items were found. In the linen closet stuck to the wallpaper was a “King” candy sticker. Also, someone apparently caught young Louis carving his initials on the pantry wall, and those unfinished initials remain today. The Dotson-King home has been lovingly restored with information provided by the daughters prior to their deaths. Miss Daisy was able to see the project to com-

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The Heron House, a cottage located in the northwestern section of the Alley Addition, was built in Continued On Page 29...

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...Continued From Page 27 the early 1880s in the late Greek Revival style. It has been renovated extensively throughout the years.

The beaded board walls are from the earliest days while the white oak flooring and fireplace mantle with tiling in the parlor are indicative of the 1920s.

Throughout the house one can literally pass through time by passing through the doorways as several styles of doors indicate the various periods of renovations. In 1970 the kitchen was expanded and the original porch, in the middle of the house, was fully integrated indoors.

A new enclosed porch was built onto the length of the back of the house.

In 2018 the current owners, India and Matt Stanberry completely renovated the home to its current beautiful condition, maintaining as much of the original materials

as possible, including the stainedglass front door. The kitchen and bathrooms were modernized but in a manner that compliments the existing architecture.

Previous owners of the home include the following notable Jefferson citizens: Mrs. Lucy Alley, wife of Dan N. Alley, James Chapin, Rudolph and Mary Ballauf (owner of Ballauf ’s Hardware) and Eugene Meyer of the Meyer House next door, who was son-in-law to Rudolph Ballauf and owner of Meyer and Son’s Hardware.

Union Baptist Church 520 Houston Street

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October 4, 1868, during the turbulent Reconstruction period. The 1883 church structure has recently been completely restored under the guidance and direction of the Jef Jef...Continued From Page 29 ferson-based Collins Academy and local slaves in 1842 by the first set setthe Dallas-based Today Foundation. tlers in Jefferson including Captain William Perry. In 1847, the original Both organizations were founded by Richard H. Collins, a noted philanslave congregation built a church thropist and preservationist. structure on the site, known as the While the church was designated African Church. It is possible that a Recorded Texas Historic Landthis congregation was the first Black mark in 2011, it spent decades in congregation in Texas and that the a state of increasing deterioration. original church was the first built by Faced with threatened demolition slaves in Texas. by the City of Jefferson, a petition The current church structure at circulated by the Marion County the site was built in 1883 after the Historical Commission delayed the original African Church was burned demolition of the Union Baptist by the Knights of the Rising Sun on Continued On Page 33...

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...Continued From Page 31 Church until Collins’ involvement in the project implemented the historic preservation of this important piece of Jefferson’s historical fabric.

The completed historic preservation of the church has beautifully restored the structure to its 1883 appearance in which 90 percent of the original wood floors, ceilings, and walls in the main sanctuary were preserved.

The Culberson House 403 N. Walnut Street

The home, located at 403 N. Walnut Street, was built in the early 1860s by Col. David Browning Culberson, Jr. Originally from Georgia and Alabama, the Culberson family had moved to East Texas via wagon train and had settled in Jefferson with his wife Eugenia Kimball in

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...Continued From Page 33 1861, where he continued his prac practice of law. Culberson served as the defense attorney in the Stockade Case of 1869 and defended accused murderer Abe Rothschild in the Diamond Bessie murder trial. Each spring during the Pilgrimage Celebration in May, the town puts on a Diamond Bessie murder trial play.

During the Civil War, Culberson

entered the Confederate Army as a private. But, in 1862, he helped raise the 18th Texas Infantry Regiment.

He served as Lt. Col and then as Colonel of the regiment. Culberson was also one of the intimate advisors to Sam Houston.

Following the war, Culberson continued his career as a public servant. He was elected to the Texas Senate in 1873. Culberson was then elected to the U.S. Congress for ten consecutive terms, serving from 1875-1897. To climax a most sucContinued On Page 35...

...Continued From Page 34 cessful political career, Culberson was appointed by President McKinley to serve on the committee to codify the laws of the United States.

Culberson served in this capacity until his death on May 7, 1900. He and his wife are both buried here in Jefferson at Oakwood Cemetery.

Culberson County in West Texas is named in his honor.

Culberson and his wife Eugenia had two sons: Charles and Robert Culberson. Charles Culberson grew up in this home. After Charles married, his parents (David and Eugenia) built the home next to the Culberson House for Charles and his wife, Anna, as a wedding gift. The home that was built for them is now known as the “Governor’s House.”

Charles Culberson was elected as the 21st Governor of Texas, serving from 1895-1899 and as a United States Senator from Texas from 1899 to 1923. After serving for over two decades in D.C., his health and opposition to the Ku Klux Klan led to the loss of his seat in the Democratic primary in 1922. He is buried in East Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth upon his death in 1925.

Culberson was a distant cousin of John Culberson, who represented Texas’ 7th congressional district in Houston.

The Culberson House is an exquisite example of Greek Revival architecture. This classic architectural style, with its symmetrical shape, low roof lines, columns and pediments, was inspired by Greek temples - a tribute to the very concept of democracy. When first constructed, it was a one-story cottage with a hexastyle portico and a hipped roof. In the 1980s, the Culberson House was extensively renovated and expanded into the grand Greek Revival home that you see today. The home and guest house feature six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, fifteen-foot-high ceilings, seven fireplaces and a hidden secret passageway from the office to one of the downstairs bedrooms.

The floors in the home are the original six-inch wide heart-of-pine boards cut and planed in Jefferson.

All of the interior doors are original to the home and are wood-pegged type construction. The home is furnished with a variety of Continental American, English, French and German antiques from the 17th through the 19th centuries. The Culberson Home is owned by Rob and Pam Baker.

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TOURS & ATTRACTIONS Courtesy of City of Jefferson–for more detailed information www.visitjeffersontexas.com or 903-665-3733 HOUSE OF THE SEASONS HISTORIC HOME TOUR 409 S. Alley Daily @ 11 am ($10.00 per person) *By Appointment* (903) 665-8000 www.houseoftheseasons.com SINGLETON’S VIRGINIA CROSS HISTORIC HOME TOUR 401 Soda St. Saturdays @ 1 pm ($7.00 per person) Call for additional dates & times (903) 665-3938 www.virginiacross. com

EXCELSIOR HOUSE HOTEL & JAY GOULD RAILCAR TOUR 211 W. Austin Hotel Tours & Jay Gould Rail-car Tours: Daily @ 1 pm Excelsior House Tour - $8.00 Jay Gould Railcar Tour - $5.00 (903) 665-2513 Call to confirm tour times www.theexcelsiorhouse.com JEFFERSON HISTORICAL MUSEUM 223 W. Austin Daily 9:30 am - 4:30 pm

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& CIVIL WAR MUSEUM 116 W Lafayette St. (903) 665-1859 Open Fri-Sun or by Appt.

GONE WITH THE WIND MUSEUM 408 Taylor St. (903) 665-1939 SunWed.: by Appt.; Thurs-Sat 10AM-5PM

MUSEUM OF MEASUREMENT AND TIME 301 N Polk St. (903) 665-6668 - Sun. 1PM - 5PM, Thurs-Sat. 10AM - 5PM, Mon-Wed: by Appt

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3 Sister’s Cottages, 214-399-0398, 502 Houston St, www.3sisterscottages.com Angell Manor, 903-601-5057, 502 E Taylor St, www.angellmanor.com Austin Street Cottages, 903-8060518, 406 W Austin St, www. austinstreetcottages.com/ Azalea Inn, 903-665-2500, 203 E Dixon St, www.azaleainn.net/ Black Swan, 903-665-7023, 210 W Austin St, www.visittheblackswan.com/ Captain’s Castle, 903-665-2330, 403 E Walker St, captainscastle.com/ Carriage House, 903-665-9511, 401 N Polk St, carriagehousejefferson. com/ Claiborne House, 903-665-8800, 312 S Alley St, claibornehousebnb.com/ Delta Street Inn, 903-665-2929, 206 E Delta St, www.deltastreetinn.com/ French Cottages, 808-391-0962, 408 Houston St, www.frenchcot-

tagesjefferson.com Green Gables of Jefferson, 903407-1956, 304 W Lafayette St, greengablesofjefferson.com House of the Seasons, 903-6658000, 409 S Alley St, www.houseoftheseasons.com/ Kennedy Manor, 903-665-0772, 217 W Lafayette St, www.kennedymanor.com/ Old Mulberry Inn, 903-665-1945, 209 E Jefferson St, www.oldmulberryinn.com/ Steamboat Inn, 903-708-5969, 114 N Marshall St, steamboatinntx. com/ Stillwater Inn, 903-665-8415, 203 E Broadway St, stillwaterinn.com/ White Oak Manor, 903-665-8185, 502 E Benners St, www.bedandbreakfastjeffersontx.com/

HOTELS

Excelsior Hotel, 903-665-2513, 211 W Austin St, theexcelsiorhouse. com Executive Inn, 903-665-3700, 200 S

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Places to Stay continued Walcott St, executiveinnjefferson. com/ Historic Kahn Hotel, 903-6014434, 123 W Austin St, www. kahnsaloon.com/ Historic Jefferson Hotel, 901-4683551, 124 W. Austin St., www. historicjefferson.com OYO Hotel Jefferson, 628-2394299, 400 S Walcott St

RENTALS

Bessie’s Landing, 972-247-3557, 207 S Alley St, www.airbnb.com/ rooms/17824506

Cottage at Chez Lafayette, 903-665-3145, 305 W Lafayette St, www.airbnb.com/ rooms/33490853 Heather’s Guesthaus, 936-6615631, 107 N Main St, www.airbnb.com/rooms/13165544 Mama Dean’s Place, 903-720-6460, 404 E Dixon St, www.airbnb. com/rooms/30553956 McGarity’s Upstairs Inn, 903-6650121, 208 W Dallas St, www. airbnb.com/rooms/32900530 Sara Jane Cottages, 903-241-0683, 306 W Austin St, www.airbnb. com/rooms/12874039

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Places to Stay continued The French Townhouse, 502 E RV PARKING Walker St, www.airbnb.com/ Diamond Don’s RV Park, 903-742rooms/22748241 2041, 903-445-9796 The Guesthouse, 214-324-3063, 509 or 866-398-2038 , 1602 State Hwy W Austin St, www.airbnb.com/ 49 East Jefferson, TX 75657, diarooms/19294423 monddonempire.com The Magnolias, 214-679-5383, Jefferson RV Park, 903- 431-0043, 209 E Broadway St, www.vrbo.

610 E. Broadway St, www.jeffercom/1404252 soniceexpress-rvpark.com/ City of Jefferson RV Park, 903-6653922, Located behind the courthouse

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