CHAPTER 1

The Life and Stories of Some of the Early Settlers

Roads in Navarro County

Trinity University

Navarro Junior College -1946

Development of Railroads

River Transportation

Development of Oil in Navarro County

The Last Public Hanging in Navarro County

History of the Navarro County Electric Cooperative, 1937-1962

Navarro County Extension Service

CHAPTER 2

Indians in Navarro County

The Tehuacana Cabe Last Home of the Tehuacana Indians

The Battle Creek Fight

CHAPTER 3

Family Histories

Abe Mulkey

Lieutenant Lea

Dresden Doctor

Britton Dawson

James Monroe Riggs
"Should be James Madison Riggs"

Buck Barry

John H. Reagan

Alexander Beaton

John L. Miller

The Ingram Family

The Ramsey Family

Judge William Croft

Dr. James K. Cooksey

The Pioneer Doctor

George W. Eliot

Dr. J. W. Gulick

The Edens Family

John R. Ransome

The McKinney Family

Noah T. Byars

Benjamin F. Carroll

The Carpenter Family

J. A. Johnson

Meritt Drane

Roger Q. Mills

The Polk Family

Judge E. J. Simkins

R. M. Collins

William H. Neblett

Capt. James Garitty

Robert Newton White

W. R. Howe

Thomas I. Smith

The Hartzell Family

His Brand was "JH"

Captain Hodge

J. C. Neil

David R. Mitchell

Colonel Robert H. Porter

B. F. Lisman

Ethan Melton

George Washington Hill

Edward H. Tarrent

C.M. Winkler

CHAPTER 4

Life of Jose Antonio Navarro

CHAPTER 5

Corsicana History

General Shelby

CHAPTER 6

Stories of the Past

Fortune Teller

What Use A Coffin

The Justice Tree of Dresden

The Cowhead Trail

Tombstone Seals Secret of Peg-Leg Rope Walker

The Last Buffalo

John Wesley Hardin

CHARTER 7

Development of Corsicana

History of the Churches of Corsicana

Baptist Churches

Methodist Church

Presbyterian Church

Catholic Church

First Christian Church

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Church of Christ

The Jewish Religion

First National Bank

State National Bank

Progress for Corsicana

Oil City

The Interurban of Corsicana

Corley Funeral Home

A Brief History of Clowe Floral

J. E. Whiteselle

Modrall Cemetery

The Odd Fellow Home

The K. Wolen Story

Wolf Brand Chili

J. M. Dyer Co.

Corsicana Grader and Machine Company

Hospitals

Pink Ladies

A Baseball Record

Danny Nicholson

Governor Beauford Jester

Rex Ingram, Dean of American Black Actors

Kinsloe House

The Medical Arts Clinic

Physicians and Surgeons Clinic

Corsicanna Chamber of Commerce

A Legend in Its Own Time

CHAPTER 8

Pioneer Towns of Navarro County

Early Days of Pisgah Ridge

Jester "Switch"

Navarro Mills

Barry, Texas

Eureka

Petty’s Chapel

Retreat

Winkler

Navarro

Bazette, Texas

Dresden

Richland

Emmett

Silver City

Raleigh

Powell

Chatfield

Blooming Grove

Dawson

Dawson Masonic Institute

Navarro County Baptist Association- 1888

Kerens

Spring Hill

Rice

Frost

The Silver Lake of Frost

Roane, Texas

Cook’s School House and Corbet

Wadeville

Purdon

Shingle Arbor

Kelm

Rural Shade

King Willow

Emhouse

CHAPTER 9

Navarro County Historical Society and the Pioneer Village

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