Publications Education Events Southwestern Historical Quarterly The Handbook of Texas Online Texas State Historical Association - Home About Us News Site Search Contact Us Giving Opportunities Links FAQ Join the Texas State Historical Association
skip to content
TSHA Online Home
Handbook of 
 Texas Online



Facebook


format this article to print

EMINENCE, TEXAS. Eminence is west of Farm Road 563 and south of Interstate Highway 10, forty-six miles east of Houston in northern Chambers County. The Eminence post office operated from 1898 until 1909. By 1939 a filling station-general store, a school, and a church marked the site at Eminence. A sawmill, operated by J. E. Cline, opened in 1940. By the mid-1970s the Eminence church, several cemeteries, and widely scattered buildings were all that remained.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jewel Horace Harry, A History of Chambers County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1940; rpt., Dallas: Taylor, 1981).

 




At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897–1997 .    




Copyright © Texas State Historical Association
Terms of Use  Comment/Contact  Policy Agreement  Last Updated: November 11, 2009
Published by the Texas State Historical Association
and distributed in partnership with the University of North Texas.