Mountain Home

James Stephen Hogg was born at Mountain Home to Lucanda McMath and Joseph Lewis Hogg. His father had moved to Cherokee County in 1839, and the 1860 census recorded him as the owner of twenty-six enslaved people; Bob, an enslaved man made to serve as his body servant, nursed him through his last illness. Joseph Hogg died on May 16, 1862, a Confederate brigadier general, and Lucanda died the next year. Jim Hogg set type in Andrew Jackson's newspaper office at Rusk and from 1871 ran his own newspapers in Longview and Quitman.

What the plaque says

Mountain Home Birthplace of James Stephen Hogg, son of Lucanda McMath Hogg and Joseph Lewis Hogg. Born March 24, 1851. Died March 3, 1906. First native Texan to serve as governor. Inspirer of the passage of the Railroad Commission Law, Stock and Bond Law, Alien Land Law.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 15 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 — 27 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

• James Stephen Hogg and Cherokee County — 1.4 mi
• Bachelor Girl's Library Club — 1.6 mi
• Rusk Footbridge — 1.6 mi
• The Rusk Cherokeean — 1.7 mi