Cheneyboro

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 3.6 mi north-west of Navarro · Navarro County

Named for Francis Marion Cheney, who came in the early 1880s and built his house out of lumber sawed at his own mill on Richland Creek. The house was later moved to the middle of the county and was still standing in the 1980s.

Cheneyboro in red on the General Land Office map of Navarro County, 1924, among the original land grants — Cheneyboro on the Land Office's county map of July 1924, in red; the names around it are the original land grants. Courtesy of the Texas General Land Office, Austin. Map 73249, Navarro County, July 1924. Used under licence. The whole county map →

Also within two miles. Burying grounds: Cheneyboro Cemetery, Hopewell Cemetery.

Among the places · On the map

From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas.