In Harrison County outside Marshall are a number of sites worth more than one visit. They include:
Caddo Lake, Texas' only naturally formed lake, on the border between Texas and Louisiana. The town of Uncertain is on the south shore, and Caddo Lake State Park offers camping, cabins, canoe rental and guided boat tours - the best way to see the mysterious cypress-laden slues and streams on the Texas side of the lake.
Stagecoach Road, at the end of Harris Lake Road off U.S. 59, North, is four miles of beautiful one-lane sunken roadway. It is maintained just as it appeared when stagecoaches used it to come from Shreveport to Marshall and points west. It is a popular place for horseback riders and walkers.
Lindsey's Store
Scottsville Plantation Cemetery and T.C Lindsey's General Store in Jonesville. T.C. Lindsey and Company, celebrated its 150th birthday in 1997. It has been the location of half a dozen movies. Except for the soft drink machine in one corner, it looks about the way it did in the days of mule-drawn wagons bringing cotton to the nearby gin - the last one in East Texas. It is part museum, and part country grocery - one of the few places in East Texas where you can buy bonnets and cheddar cheese cut from a hoop with an antique wire slicer.
Mimosa Hall, built on 1844, one of more than half a dozen antebelum plantation homes in the county, was one of four two-story brick homes in Harrison County designed by W.R.D. Ward and build under the supervision of a slave-contractor belonging to Mimosa Hall's first owner, John Webster.
The T.J. Taylor House, childhood home of Lady Bird Johnson, was also designed by Ward and constructed by Webster's slave in 1843. The original owner, Capt. C.K Andrews called it "The Brick House," and paid Webster for his labor. Taylor bought and restored it at the turn of the century, at the tme he established a general store and proclaimed hmself, "Dealer in Everything."
