Page 25 - Plano, TX Heritage Preservation Plan

Architectural
Styles

• Greek Revival
• Gothic Revival
• Pre-railroad
• Italianate

EARLY CHURCHES AND CEMETERIES MOUNT VALE SCHOOL
As people settled in and around what would become the is opened by Jacob Routh and
City of Plano, the establishment of churches gave settlers his neighbors
a sense of community. Churches often started in log cabin
homes prior to building individual churches closer to town.
ST
According to family histories, guns were stacked under a tree 1 PUBLIC SCHOOL
at the Rowlett Creek Baptist Church before services to have is established in the
them nearby for protection. In the early years, cemeteries Christian Church
were also established. The oldest known grave in Plano is that
of Daniel Cook (January 13, 1847) in the Baccus Cemetery.
First
First Christian Leach-Thomas Presbyterian
Church Rowlett Creek Bowman Church

Civil War (1861-1865)
1856 1858 1860 1862 1864 1866 1868 1870 1872

Collinwood
(ca. 1860) Forman 155
POPULATION
PLANO MASONIC OF PLANO
LODGE #235 (1860)
moves into the Gossum Storehouse
at 15th and K Avenue

ANDY DRAKE (1860)
the first free African American to move
to Plano and forefather of Plano African
American community

COLLINWOOD HOUSE
One of the oldest homes
in Plano
Photo provided by Collin County
Historical Commission

Residential Commercial Church Cemetery Downtown Fire

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