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
Course Access: Semi-PrivateHoles: 18Reserve Advance Tee Times: Yes...
Park features fishing piers, two swimming areas, children's playground, picnic tables and grills, horseshoe pits, volleyball ...
City is at western boundary of forest....
45-minute narrated tour of Big Cypress Bayou, featuring riverport history of Jefferson. Just below old trestle across Polk St...
Dug to a depth of 27 feet by slave labor in 1860, the old town well supplied citizens as well as travelers on El Camino Real ...