Chatfield

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 5.2 mi west of Rice · Navarro County

Champion Chatfield set up a trading post in an oak grove on the San Antonio and Shreveport trail in 1838, six miles east of Porter's Bluff, and the town took his name. It had five hundred people and a daily stage to Rice in the 1890s, and forty in 1990.

Also within two miles. Burying grounds: New Chatfield Cemetery, Old Chatfield Cemetery · Markers: Chatfield United Methodist Church, General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., L. P. Hodge Home, Chatfield Baptist Church, Last Review of the Confederacy · Fire department: Chatfield Volunteer Fire Department.

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From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas.