Randolph Community

Randolph, also called Old Randolph, stood twelve miles east of Crockett on the old Kennard-Crockett road and was an important stage stop on the road from Louisiana. Shortly after the Civil War began, Currie's Company, later part of Hood's Texas Brigade, was organized there. By the early 1860s the town had several stores, a saloon, a barbershop, a blacksmith and a Masonic lodge. Its post office closed in 1881, and by 1900 the place was abandoned. In the early 1990s only a cemetery remained, according to the Handbook of Texas.

What the plaque says

Randolph Community (1 mile north) In 1838, Cyrus Halbert Randolph (1817-1889) established the Randolph community on the San Felipe de Austin-Nacogdoches mail route. Randolph, a member of the Snively Expedition, served as Houston County justice of the peace, coroner, chief justice, and sheriff, as well as state legislator and treasurer. The community opened a school circa 1850 and, on June 30, 1858, established the Randolph post office. In 1860, when the community tried to wrest the county seat from Crockett, it had two stores, a blacksmith shop, saloon and barbershop. After losing its bid for county seat, the population slowly declined until the post office closed on September 29, 1881. (1973, 2004)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 18 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.

More markers nearby

• Center Hill — 2.2 mi
• Cornith Cemetery — 2.4 mi
• Kennard — 3.8 mi
• Former Rosenwald School — 4.0 mi