Town of Scottsville

William Thomas Scott's plantation house is the best-recorded part of Scottsville's beginnings. The Handbook of Texas says Scott moved from Louisiana in 1840 and that enslaved people built his home that year; the entry repeats a report that it was identical to Jefferson Davis's Mississippi mansion. His plantation later supplied provisions to Confederate troops. A post office was granted on August 4, 1869. The community counted about 300 people in 1929 and fell to about 50 during the Great Depression, and it is now an incorporated town on Farm Roads 1998 and 2199, about four miles east of Marshall.

What the plaque says

Town of Scottsville Founded in 1834 by William Thomas Scott (1811-1887), pioneer and statesman. This marker is erected jointly by the State of Texas and relatives and friends in the year 1936. Centennial of Texas Independence.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Harrison County Historical Museum — 7.6 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 7.6 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 7.8 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 9.6 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• Harrison County — 1.6 mi
• Marshall-Shreveport Stagecoach Road — 4.0 mi
• Marshall Pottery — 5.2 mi
• Marshall — 6.8 mi