Welcome to Cherokee County, Texas Genealogy 
PLACES OF INTEREST
PARKS 
Buckner Park features include volleyball, basketball, tennis, walking track, picnic areas, play area for children and two covered pavilions. Public restrooms are also available. Located off of Newborn Street in Jacksonville, Texas.
picture courtesy of Rusk Chamber of Commerce
Butler Park was once the site of the institution known as Rusk College. At one time it had a grand three story building offering classes from first grade through junior college, with six building on a 12 acre campus. It had several reorganizations and name changes. It functioned until 1928.Located in Rusk, TX.
pictures courtesy of Rusk Chamber of Commerce
A memorial to Texas' first native born governor, James Stephen Hogg, 1891-1895, this 177-acre park offers a scale replica of the birthplace, housing, museum, historical markers, and a family cemetery. Park is for day-use only and has a nature trail and picnic area. A strip mining area from the late 1880s (iron ore) can be viewed from a rise on the nature trail, where there is an interpretive display. The parks offers self-guided and guided museum tours and nature trail tours. The park is located two miles east of Rusk off Highway 84 East and Fire Tower Road.
Nichols Green Park
Nichols Green Park has basketball courts, soccer fields, baseball fields, picnic areas, covered pavilion, walking track in beautiful scenery, bridges over walkways and new children's playground equipment. Located off Hwy 69 South in Jacksonville, Texas.
Photography courtesy of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Interesting
Sites
Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site
Photo courtesy of Earl Nottingham,
Texas Parks &Wildlife Department
Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site, a 93.8-acre park in Cherokee County, was acquired in February, 1975 from Walter E. Gundermann, Jr. Development of facilities was completed and the park opened to the public in June 1982. It was the home of Mound Builders of Caddoan origin who lived in the region for 500 years beginning about A.D. 800. The park offers exhibits and interpretive trails through its reconstructed sites of Caddo dwellings and ceremonial areas, including two temple mounds, a burial mound, and a village area. Group tours are offered by appointment only. Per person tour fees apply. Adult, student, and senior citizen fees; group tour rates available.
Cherokee Trace Drive-thru Safari
pictures courtesy of Cherokee Trace
picture courtesy of Rusk Chamber of Commerce
The Rusk Footbridge is believed to be the longest footbridge in the nation at 546 feet. It is located in Rusk, TX, just off the Courthouse square. It is a beautiful point of interest. During the town's early years, before streets connected a residential area with the downtown business district, the bridge served as a means to cross a small valley when the creek flooded. The original bridge was built in 1861 by Howard Barnes.
