Tyler in the 1860s4 cards: 1 first and 3 beginnings
- Camp Ford becomes a prison campCamp Ford began in 1862 as a Confederate conscript-training camp four miles northeast of Tyler, named for Col. John S. (Rip) Ford.
- Missionary work begins what becomes Christ Episcopal ChurchIts first rector, Hungarian-born Emir Hamvasy, arrived in 1872.
- The first school for Black children in the Tyler areaOpened with help from the Freedmen’s Bureau; attacked, it held on a few years.
- Murphey the Jeweler opens at Ferguson and BroadwayA family business, one of the oldest stores in East Texas, says its marker.