Historical Marker
Old Livery Stable
Marker installed: 1968
Near Trammel's Trace, a road charted 1813, used by thousands of settlers migrating to Texas.
Site was owned 1868 by D. B. Culberson, later a congressman and a lawyer for defense in the Diamond Bessie murder trial.
Culberson's 2-story building here was original site for the Chesterfield Club, East Texas' elite social group, 1870s-1930s.
Present structure, built about 1900, housed horses and buggies for public hire until auto age.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1968.
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