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The Jefferson-Quitman Road was one of three pioneer roads that crossed Upshur County and aided in the development of Texas. It was heavily used by freighters and settlers heading westward and by those exporting cotton, hides, and produce to the inland port at Jefferson. At this point it was crossed by Cherokee Trace, so named for Indians who used it to travel between their home reservation in Arkansas and their lands near Nacogdoches. The Mount Gilead Primitive Baptist Church was organized near here in July 1848, and pioneer merchant Leonidas Cartwright gave the church land and cemetery.
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