TAYLOR'S CHAPEL, TEXAS. Taylor's Chapel was an early settlement seventeen miles north of Rusk on what is now State Highway 135 in northern Cherokee County. The community grew up along the old Cherokee Trail^qv in the 1850s and was named for an early church. It served as a stopping point for travelers entering the county around the time of the Civil War.^qv In the mid-1930s Taylor's Chapel comprised a church and a number of houses. After World War II^qv many residents left the area, but in the 1980s the church and a few scattered dwellings still remained.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cherokee County History (Jacksonville, Texas: Cherokee County Historical Commission, 1986).

Christopher Long