Marker Inscription
The first hotel to occupy this site was the Union Hotel, a wood frame building erected in 1849. Renamed Bracken House for a subsequent owner, it continued to serve the city until 1889. Civil War General Joseph L. Hogg, father of future Governor James Stephen Hogg, gave a rousing patriotic speech from the front steps in 1861, and infamous outlaw John Welsey Hardin was held for two weeks in the hotel by the local sheriff in 1872. Architect Theodore Miller razed the wooden structure and built the 65-room brick Acme Hotel in its place in 1889. It was destroyed by fire in 1905.
About this site
Union Hotel/Bracken House/Acme Hotel is a historical marker in Rusk, Cherokee County. It is one of 112 historical markers documented in Cherokee County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 245 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7979, -95.1508 near Rusk. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cherokee County Courthouse (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Cherokee County, Bachelor Girl's Library Club, and Cherokee County C.S.A..
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5073006864. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
