Marker Inscription
The Yarbrough Building, which once stood at this location, was razed in 1978.
Historical Marker
Yarbrough Building
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About this site
Yarbrough Building is a historical marker in Tyler, Smith County, dedicated in 1980. It is one of 90 historical markers documented in Smith County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 272 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.3518, -95.3000 near Tyler. The nearest cataloged historic site is Smith County as a 19th Century Legal Center (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Smith County, C. S. A., Tyler, and Henry Miller Morgan.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5423007771. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Yarbrough Building marker in downtown Tyler recalls a prominent early commercial structure associated with Col. George Yarbrough, a Smith County pioneer merchant. Yarbrough built a multi-story building on the town square and operated a dry-goods store there during Tyler's rapid growth in the years before the Civil War. The Yarbrough family name was later given to a nearby residential addition.
Sources: hmdb.orgtexasalmanac.com
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