Historical Marker

Miller-Spinks-Mayes Property

Historical marker location:
312 E. Houston Ave., Crockett, Texas
( facing N. 4th St., north of E. Houston Ave. (SH 21))
Marker installed: 1992

This corner of the town square was developed as a law office after state legislator and Houston County judge S.A. Miller (1805-1893) purchased it in 1840. In 1891, Rudd Crawford Spinks (1856-1938) bought the site and built a two-story brick building for his jewelry store with living quarters on the second floor. W.E. "Buck" Mayes, a Crockett merchant, banker and landowner, bought the building, now substantially altered from its original appearance, in 1895. The property remains an important site in Crockett's commercial history. (1992).