Davy Crockett--Crockett Circle
There is a street in Paris, Texas named Crockett Circle. It was named after Davy Crockett, who was visiting relatives there in that area, slept under a tree located on what is now Clarksville Street. In a letter he had told his wife that he had "found paradise" and intended to relocate his family there in the area. Sadly, he was then en route to the Alamo where he lost his life fighting for Texas' independence. So he never had the chance to return to his paradise.
We lived very near, a matter of maybe two or three blocks from the very area where he slept under that tree. However, in the Google entry it said that no historical marker is placed anywhere near the site. I went to a school about two or three blocks from Crockett Circle and have been on the street many times. Crockett Circle intersected with Clarksville Street and it is a circular street, hence the name, Crockett Circle.
My aunt and uncle lived near an old city cemetery under the water tower at Graham Street and 5th SW. It is said there are a number of historically noteworthy grave sites in that cemetery. My children and their cousins played many times in that cemetery when we visited Paris back in the fifties and sixties. I don't know who the noteworthy grave sites hold but the cemetery was mentioned in the Davy Crockett article on Google. So maybe some of his relatives or friends are the noteworthy people.
So I feel as if I am in some small way connected to Davy Crockett since I lived very near where he once slept under a tree. HUH?
posted by kyra lafain @ 2/28/2010 12:30:00 PM
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There is now a marker for the Davy Crockett site. The DAR put one up in the 1930's, and somewhere down the line, it disappeared. Someone found it 20 or 30 years ago, and it spent quite a few years underneath the bed of one of the DAR members. Several years ago, our chapter had a rededication ceremony and the marker was replaced. When you visit Paris next, I'll take you there.
Where is the memorial? I heard something happened to it?
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