Eagle Lake to install three new Texas Historical Markers

Eagle Lake Remembers

The public is invited to witness history as Eagle Lake and Colorado County will add three additional Texas Historical Markers on Saturday, Oct. 7 and Sunday, Oct. 8.

The markers will honor Eagle Lake’s Cicero Howard, its first African American County Commissioner. Howard cast a vote to build the bold, new County Courthouse and jail in Columbus in 1889. Howard was elected from the Eagle Lake precinct in 1878, and was re-elected in 1880, 1882, 1884, and 1888. He was a foreman on the farms owned by Captain William Dunovant of Eagle Lake.

The second marker will honor the Eagle Lake Masonic Lodge #366, AF&AM upon its 150th year celebration and its continuing contributions to the community and county in brotherhood, leadership, and service.

The third historical marker will celebrate the founding of Chesterville, Texas as an important rural community which attracted numerous area immigrants from the Midwest, planned the College at Chesterville and was well-known for its farming, as well as its contributions to the beginnings and continuation of the rice industry in Colorado and Wharton Counties.

Join us for a day of history and celebration and the installation of these historical markers.

• Saturday, Oct. 7; 3 p.m. Where: Prairie Edge Museum honoring Cicero Howard

• Saturday, Oct. 7; 5 p.m. The Masonic Lodge 150th Anniversary Marker. Where: Downtown at 119 N. McCarty Avenue at the Lodge.

• Sunday, Oct. 8; 3 p.m. Honor the founding of the town of Chesterville, Texas. Where: The Lissie United Methodist Church Parlor, Lissie, Texas