Cherokee County Home For Sale A 2-story home situated on a dead-end street with 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths and 2 living areas. This home has 1980 square feet with a metal roof and a fenced in backyard. A 560 square foot shop with a covering on the side. Plenty of trees to shade the yard and rose bushes in the front of the home. This home is close to Jim Hogg Park where kids can play on the playground or enjoy the trails that the park has to offer. Home is in the Rusk ISD school system. Jim Hogg is 178.4 acres of East Texas Pineywoods east of Rusk in Cherokee County and is a memorial to the state's first native born governor, James Stephen Hogg, 1891 - 1895. During his term as state attorney general and governor, Hogg revolutionized state government and private business by strengthening public respect for law enforcement and establishing the Texas Railroad Commission to enforce state anti-trust laws and promote fair business practices. Special things at the Jim Hogg Historic Site are a scale replica of the birthplace, housing, museum, and family cemetery. The park is for day-use only and has a nature/interpretive trail and a picnic area. A strip mining area (iron ore) can be viewed from a rise on the nature trail, where there is an interpretive display. This mining was done in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Activities are picnicking, historical study, nature study, hiking, and bird watching. Bring your own charcoal, binoculars, camera, and insect repellent. Pets must be kept on a leash. The park offers self-guided and guided museum tours and nature trail tours.
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