Marker [014]
Old Town Of Cannon
(Cannon)
| Founded in 1852 by Elijah Cannon, who came from South Carolina with his children and slaves, to develop 700
acres of land. Family established a church, cotton gin, grist mill, wagon factory. By 1885 town had an academy and 400 people. Bypassed by the Houston and Texas Railroad, it declined rapidly in the 1890s. |