So many of our streets, roads and housing additions are named for some of Gladewater's earliest settlers and entrepreneurs.  Have you ever diriven down a street and wondered where it got its name? Who Where & Why is a current exhibit detailing the history of most all of these names.

Carl B. Everett, Jr. returned to Gladewater after serving in World War II.  He began construction first on an addition that he named The Hi-Land Addition.  This addition is located across from Gladewater Primary School and includes streets Martha and Jeanette.  Martha was the name of Mr. Everett's grandmother, Martha Jeter Everett.  The second addition that Carl, Jr. constructed was the Everett Woodland's addition.
Lafayette Blvd is a main street entering the additon off North Main (Hwy 271).  Lafayette Everett was a stepson to Jarrett Dean and husband of Martha Jeter Everett, also known as Mother Everett.

Jarrett Dean was considered one of the founder's of Gladewater.  His first wife and mother of his children was Mary Jane Phillips.  When you drive on Dean Street, you are driving on a street named for Gladewater founder, Jarrett Dean.

The street known as Broadway was originally known as Longview Road.  Before Highway 80 came through Gladewater, Longview Road came from Longview and cut to the left in front of the lot where the early school was built.  It continued across the tracks and then became Tyler Road.  You might also note the original Longview Road is what we call today "old Longview highway".  As it came into Gladewater from the east, it ran behind present day Shipp's Marine and continue across a creek bridge in front of the Armstrong home which is still located today next to Rosedale Cemetery.

Holbert Street is a short street but was named for a family that came here in the 1840's.  Claiborne Holbert was the father of Mary E. Holbert, who married Alfred Mason Phillips. Holbert Street is between East Lake Drive and Phillips Avenue.  

East Lake Drive off Hwy 80 was originally known as Refinery Street.  It wasn't changed to East Lake until after the Lake Gladewater was built in the 1950's.

Speaking of Phillips, there is a street off Gay Avenue named Phillips Springs.  Most of today's Gladeites have not idea why this street was so named.  Here you go...Phillips Springs road actually led to an area known as Phillips Springs!  This was also before Lake Gladewater.

Shepperd Street and Shepperd Addition was named by John Henry Shepperd, a grandson on of pioneer mother, Elvey Anderson Shepperd. 

More updates forthcoming....