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Jefferson, Texas

Jefferson Historical Society Museum
Four floors of articles, documents and antiques from bygone era. Mementos of pioneer days, early steamboat commerce, and antebellum society. Paintings and sculpture from D.D. Feldman collection. ...
Jefferson Historical Society Museum
Scarlett O'Hardy's Gone with the Wind Museum
Features one of the largest private collections of memorabilia from this epic story of the Old South. Among the hundreds of items on display are rare domestic and foreign movie posters, a first editio...
Scarlett O'Hardy's Gone with the Wind Museum

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Carnegie Library

Built 1907

Jefferson, TX Carnegie Libraries

Jefferson Hotel

A cotton warehouse in 1861, converted to hotel 1900, restored as country inn and restaurant. Turn-of-the-century iron beds, Victorian dressers, rocking chairs; 22

Jefferson, TX Historic Hotels

Turning Basin River Boat Tour

45-minute narrated tour of Big Cypress Bayou, featuring riverport history of Jefferson. Just below old trestle across Polk St. bridge (U.S. 59)

Jefferson, TX Tours

Historic Inns

Excelsior House - 19

Jefferson, TX Historic Hotels

Jay Gould Private Railroad Car

Jay Gould Private Railroad Car—The "Atalanta" has luxurious interior with four staterooms, lounge, dining room, kitchen, butler'

Jefferson, TX Railroad History

Things to do near Jefferson, TX

Scenic Drive

Texas 105 west through piney woods to Montgomery 15 miles; driving tour of historic homes dating back to 1850s....

Woodlands Trails

1.8-mile walking trail through one of the finest old pine stands in East Texas. Close-up views of 225-year-old longleaf pines...

Joe Roughneck Statue

Commemorating George William Strake, who brought in the 19,000-acre Conroe Oil Field in 1931 and became Houston's first oil m...

Wright Patman Lake Boat Ramps

Historic Inns

Excelsior House - 19th-century hotel numbered among its guests Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jay Gould and Oscar Wil...