Eutaw

Eutaw was said to be named for Eutaw, Alabama, an early settler's birthplace, the Handbook of Texas notes. By the eve of the Civil War it had four general stores, two churches, a tavern, a stage depot and a school. Adolph Harris opened his first store here in the 1850s and later owned Dallas's A. Harris and Company. When the Houston and Texas Central stopped at Kosse in 1869, many families moved their businesses two miles east. The post office closed in 1870, yet Eutaw served surrounding farms until after World War II, and its school lasted until 1949.

What the plaque says

Eutaw Settled in 1840s. On Franklin-Springfield, Waco-Marlin stage routes. Post office 1856 with Nathan Gilbert postmaster. Eutaw Lodge No. 233, A.F. & A.M., was chartered 1859. Among early settlers were Henry Fox, Allen McDaniel, Charles C., Frank, and Wesley McKinley, and T. A. Polk. Town had churches, school, stores, blacksmith shop, wagon yard. The "Eutaw Blues" (Co. K., 12th Tex. Cav., C.S.A.) fought in Civil War, 1860s. Officers: Capt. A. F. Moss, 1st Lt.; A. H. McDaniel, 2nd Lt.; J. P. Brown. Bypassed in 1870 by Houston & Texas Central Railroad, town died. Salem Baptist Church marks site. (1973)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Fort Parker — 18 mi
  A rebuilt 1830s family stockade near the Navasota River, where a May 1836 attack killed men of the Parker settlement and took five captives, among them nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker.
• Calvert — 23 mi
  A railroad cotton town of 1868 on State Highway 6 that claimed the largest cotton gin in the world and elected Black men to county and state office during Reconstruction.
• Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site — 23 mi
  Where Limestone County Confederate veterans gathered each summer from 1888, later a water supplier in the Mexia oil boom, now a Texas Historical Commission site on the Navasota River.

More markers nearby

• Ebenezer Baptist Church and Cemetery — 6.8 mi
• Stranger Community, Cemetery and Churches — 7.1 mi
• Thornton Schools — 8.1 mi
• Joseph and Catherine Bartula — 9.7 mi