Site of Linwood

Linwood was platted in 1851 by James H. Durst and Ann Harrison Terrell, who promoted it as a port on the Angelina River. Boats never came, but the town grew anyway. A post office moved here from Lockranzie, half a mile east, and took the Linwood name that year; it stayed open until 1903. Nacogdoches merchants Charles Chevallier and Charles and Henry Raguet opened stores in the 1850s. When the Kansas and Gulf Short Line passed it by in the early 1880s, most stores and families moved to Alto. By 1936 about ten residents remained.

What the plaque says

Site of Linwood Star and Wreath On land inherited by Delilah Dill Durst from Helena Kimble Dill, whose daughter born in 1804 was thought to be first white child native to Texas. Built about 1830 by Delilah's husband, Joseph Durst, who settled in Texas in early 1800s and rose by 1826 to office of Alcalde in Nacogdoches. During troubles of 1832, the battle of Nacogdoches ended here with the surrender of Colonel Piedras' army to 17 Texans. Later was home of Geo. Whitfield Terrell (1802-1846), who served Republic of Texas as attorney-general and as Minister to England, France and Spain. Birthplace of Geo. B. Terrell (1862-1947), State Representative, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Congressman-at-Large. (1965)

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.

More markers nearby

• Angelina River — steps away
• Selman-Roark Cemetery — 2.0 mi
• Candace Midkiff Bean — 2.0 mi
• Old Palestine Baptist Church — 3.0 mi