Historical accident leads to dedication
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The Jackson Store from Everitt and the Sunset Granite Rock at Old Town Coldspring. Photos by Charles Ballard
By Charles Ballard
SJNT correspondent
COLDSPRING — One of the sunset granite rocks destined for the construction of the Texas State capital 1880s never made it to Austin as it fell off a train car into a lake.
Instead, about 140 years later, it was donated to San Jacinto County and dedicated on April 21 — San Jacinto Day — the day that Texas won its independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto, near Deer Park.
There are only six of the massive stones believed to be in existence, and this one was donated by Dick and Dodie Scott and Bill and Gay Scott to the San Jacinto County Historical Commission, along with the old Post Office.
The connection between the stone and the county is the Everitt family, early settlers of the county.
When William Nyle Everitt (1844-1904) was appointed Postmaster in 1890, he named the community Everitt, in memory of Dr. Stephen H. Everitt, one of the 59 people who signed Texas’ Declaration of Independence.
The Everitts settled in the county in the 1800s, and the Post Office was located near FM 945 South and Lilley Yeager Loop North.
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