Historical Marker
Old House of Dr. Wm. M. Ross
Marker installed: 1962
Home built in 1845 for the first sheriff of Rusk County, member of Texas Legislature, surveyor and later Confederate soldier, Dr. William Ross.
Constructed of hand-planed wood, had no window glass until 1850. Most furniture came from a Mt. Enterprise factory. Family had brought melodeon from Tennessee, 1837.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1964.