Historical Marker
Chambers' Creek
Historical marker location:
Forreston, Texas
( From Forreston take US 77 S about 1 mile to picnic area on W. side of Rd., marker in in picnic area.)
Marker installed: 1936
Named in honor of Thomas Jefferson Chambers (1802-1865) to whom the first land grant within present Ellis County was made in 1834 by the Mexican government also known as Howe's Settlement in honor of William R. Howe, first settler in the region in 1843. An early post office in Robertson County first county seat of Navarro county, 1846-1848.