Site of Old Gilmer

Historical marker location:

Gilmer, Texas

( 2 mi. NW on Cherokee Trace)

Here on the Cherokee Trace was early Gilmer. On this spot in 1845 the first Upshur County Court convened under an oak.

In spring 1846, Judge O. M. Roberts designated the nearby W. H. Hart home as courthouse until a permanent county seat could be "carefully located."

Old Gilmer Cemetery is one mile north.

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