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For history hounds, sniffing out pertinent places has never been easier. Rusk boasts a saturation of 32 historical markers...as well as a plethora of landmarks, museums and historical building.
 


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Bachelor Girls’ Library Club
 

Old Bonner Bank Building
 

Cherokee County
 

Cherokee County Courthouse
 

Cherokee County C.S.A.
 

Cherokee Furnace Company, C.S.A.
 

Confederate Gun Factory
 

Confederate Training Camp
 

Cook’s Fort
 

Elm Grove Common School
 

Site of Fastrill
 

Site of Ferguson Ford Mill
 

First Baptist Church
 

First Presbyterian Church
 

First United Methodist Church

 

Dr. I. K. Frazier Home
 

Gregg Family Home
 

 

Site of Sam Houston speeches
 

Little Bean’s Cherokee Village
 

Jim Hogg Mountain Home
 

New Birmingham
 

Norman Law Firm
 

James I. Perkins Family Home
 

City of Rusk
 

The Rusk Cherokeean
 

Rusk Footbridge

 

Rusk Penitentiary Building

 

Site of Rusk College
 

Site of Rusk Public School No. 2 for African-Americans
 

Site of Tassie Belle and Star and Cresent Iron Ore Furnaces
 

Texas State Railroad
 

Union Hotel/Bracken House/Acme Hotel

 

 

 

 

 

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