Ephraim Gray became first postmaster in , naming it after his former home town, Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama. Incidentally, "Madison County" is also the name of an adjacent Texas county.
Senator , and Tennessee congressman. Houston has been noted for his life among the Cherokees of Tennessee, and - near the end of his life - for his opposition to the American Civil War , a position which was a very unpopular in his day. McNelly and another member of the Texas State Police were wounded and two of the prisoners escaped; willingness of only two citizens to join in pursuit; and the attempted assassination of the trial judge-led to the imposition of martial law on February It was lifted sixty days later.
Mettawer, all of whom were elected county commissioners, and C. Luckie, who served on the school board. Mettawer was a freeman born in Indiana in who came to Texas before the Civil War. He was a barber and banjo player and in organized the Negro Brass Band, the first band in Walker County.
His real estate holdings in Huntsville included a brick building on the square. A number of Black residents held membership in predominantly White churches, while others established independent congregations. In Black Methodists and Baptists built a union church. In the denominations that had maintained this church went their separate ways. The Baptists established the First Baptist Church in a section of town known as Rogersville, and the African Methodists also built a church of their own, later known as Allen Chapel.
The Methodist Episcopal congregation remained at the site of the original union church and took the name St. James Methodist Episcopal Church. Antioch Baptist Church was established in the late s and held services for several years. The celebration of Juneteenth was initially held at the union church.
After the several Black denominations separated, Juneteenth was organized for many years by Jane Ward, who ran a hotel in Huntsville for Black travelers and was renowned for her ministrations to the poor and sick.
In the Band and Park Association was established to purchase Sims Grove, where Juneteenth had been held since about , and to maintain a brass band. In , with the help of Robert A. Josey, the association completed its purchase of the land and dedicated it as Emancipation Park. Economic development suffered considerably from a yellow fever epidemic in , which reportedly killed 10 percent of the town's population. On the whole the Huntsville economy remained fairly stable from the Civil War through the Great Depression.
Highway development in the late s and early s enhanced Huntsville's position as a trade center for a significant rural area of East Texas. Walker county was organized in when it was formed from part of Montgomery county, and Huntsville was designated the county seat the following year. It was incorporated in The Sam Houston Normal Institute, which was established in , is located. The citizens of the town purchased the historic site and buildings which formerly housed.
The chief products of the territory contiguous to Huntsville are cotton, corn, grain, fruit and. The population of the town in was 4, Walker County Main Page. Walker County Cemeteries. Walker County History Written in The Town Theatre TE photo. Take Raven Hill Rd. Take a left dirt road go another yds. The marker is in a cow pasture on the right. Photo courtesy Dana Goolsby , October After all, they had battled and survived Mexican soldiers, Comanches and outlaws.
The Huntsville Humdinger and the Texas Prison Rodeo by Mike Cox When the Huntsville Humdinger hit the streets that Monday, the feisty four-column competitor of the long-established Huntsville Item carried on page one a humdinger of a local scoop: The prison system would be starting a rodeo that fall.
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