Texas Is In Danger Of Losing These 5 Historical Sites

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Drive along any Texas highway or Farm-To-Market road and you will notice brown and white signs pointing to a Texas historical site. When you stop to read these signs you will learn a lot about Texas history and what important events took place on that piece of land. If it weren't for these historical markers we would have no idea about our state's rich history.

Texas has been around for a long time and that's why there are more than 16,000 historical markers scattered throughout the Lone Star State. That's a lot of Texas history that has been written and continues to be written today. It's quite possible that a historical marker could be erected in your city commemorating something that you witnessed or were a part of.

The group, Preservation Texas, released a listing of the 9 most endangered places in the Lone Star State. The places on this list stretch across Texas beginning in the Panhandle down to the Rio Grande Valley from El Paso in the west to Longview in the East. If it wasn't for historical preservationists, these sites and the history that surrounds them could, and most likely be lost forever, including one site in Longview, Texas.

Members of the Preservation Texas group nominate historical sites each year that are important to them that are being threatened by neglect, demolition, or just need some kind of revival story in hopes of saving a site. The organization identified nine locations throughout Texas that are being threatened the most of being lost in time.

This organization has been naming historical sites that are in jeopardy of being lost since 2004. The latest list includes 9 sites, one of which is in Gregg County. Some of the places on the list are being threatened because of new development or years of neglect and lack of maintenance.