Carthage became the seat of Panola (an Indian word for cotton) County in 1848 when 100 acres were donated for the townsite. Today, Carthage is a center for gas and oil processing, petrochemicals, lumber mills, chicken processing, and small industries.
Carthage is also the birthplace of Tex Ritter and Jim Reeves.
A life-sized statue of Jim Reeves commemorates the Panola County native who became one of America's best loved country-Western singers, who died in a plane crash in 1964. Member of Country Music Hall of Fame; millions of records to his credit. Memorial is three miles east of downtown on U.S. 79
Carthage, TX MemorialsHistorical building; La Grone Family History Center;
Carthage, TX MuseumsNew $2.2 million, 13,000
Carthage, TX Halls of Fame Course Access: Semi-Private
Holes: 9
Reserve Advance Tee Times: 7
Four floors of articles, documents and antiques from bygone era. Mementos of pioneer days, early steamboat commerce, and ante...
Features the work of the late Russian American post impressionist, Leo Michelson. The Museum also displays the Gloria and Ber...
Course Access: Semi-PrivateHoles: 18Reserve Advance Tee Times: 7 days...
Spanish for the Royal Highway, also called Old San Antonio Road, the first "interstate" (actually international) highway syst...
Built on the site of the Gregg Hotel (1929), the second hotel to be owned and operated by Conrad Hilton. This historic park i...