Community of Tadmor

The Handbook of Texas says Tadmor, on Farm Road 227, was first settled in the 1830s and named for the biblical Tadmor. Two schools, one Black and one white, were operating before 1900. By the mid-1890s the place had two general stores, a cotton gin and a reported population of twenty-five. Its post office closed in 1914, but the community still prospered in the 1920s. By the mid-1930s Tadmor had a church, two schools, several stores and a number of houses. By the mid-1960s a store, two churches and a few houses remained.

What the plaque says

Community of Tadmor Permanent settlement in this area began in the 1830s on land that was part of the Joseph Vehlein Colony. Located in a dense East Texas pine forest, the name of the community comes from a biblical reference to "Tadmor in the Wilderness." A post office was established in 1885 and continued until 1914. A school was founded near this site in 1889. Most of the early settlers were farmers, although the timber industry had become a major employer by the end ot the 19th century. Members of the Tadmor Baptist Church have worshipped at this site since 1900. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 12 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.
• Texas State Railroad Excursion Train — 31 mi
  A round trip of about 25 miles of track between the Palestine and Rusk depots through the Piney Woods, on a line built by prison labor and reopened as a tourist railroad in 1976.

More markers nearby

• Old Zion Cemetery — 1.1 mi
• Plain Community — 2.5 mi
• Ratcliff CCC Camp — 3.4 mi
• Four C Mill — 3.5 mi