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Rusk County is a county located in Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 52,214. [1] Its county seat is Henderson. [2] The county is named for Thomas Jefferson Rusk, a secretary of war of the Republic of Texas. Rusk County is part of the Longview, Texas metropolitan area and the Longview-Marshall combined statistical area.
Location of Rusk County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rusk County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rusk County, Texas. There are one district, six individual properties, and one former property ...
Rusk has also been the home to Jim Swink, Adrian Burk and Johnny Horton. Anthony Denman, former Notre Dame All American, Most Valuable Player and former NFL player, is from Rusk. He was the first to hail from Rusk to play in the NFL. [22] [23] [24] Cody Glenn, a former Nebraska standout and former NFL player, is from Rusk. [25] [26]
Henderson welcome sign on U.S. Highway 79. The city of Henderson was established by European Americans before the State of Texas was founded. It was developed on land donated by W.B. Ochiltree and James Smith; it became the county seat of Rusk County when an act of legislature created Rusk County on January 16, 1843.
The plantation house has been a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark since 1964. [3] Additionally, the National Register of Historic Places has listed the 100-acre core of the plantation since March 31, 2014. [3] The historic core area preserves the history of a large forced-labor cotton farm, active for many years surrounding the Civil War. The ...
The Mount Tabor Indian Community (also Texas Cherokees and Associate Bands of the Mount Tabor Indian Community) is a cultural heritage group located in Rusk County, Texas. There was a historical Mount Tabor Indian Community dating from the 19th century. The current organization established a nonprofit organization in Texas in 2015. [3]
They settled near present-day Dallas but were forced by local tribes to move east into what is now Rusk County, Texas. By 1822, an estimated 800 Cherokee lived in Texas. [1] When Texas passed from Spanish to Mexican governance, Cherokee petitioned the new Mexican authorities for formal land grants but were denied. In 1830, an estimated 800 ...
The State of Texas placed a monument at the graves of Rusk and his wife, Mary, in Oak Grove Cemetery in Nacogdoches, Texas. Rusk County and the town of Rusk were named in his honor. Part of his homestead became the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University. There is a statue of Rusk in front of the Rusk County courthouse in Henderson, Texas.