McAdoo Places

Date: Feb 2023
Surnames/tags: McAdoo McAdow

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Contents 1 Town of McAdoo, Texas 2 Town of McAdoo, Pennsylvania 3 William G. McAdoo House, Marietta, GA 4 McAdoo House, Waverly, TN 5 Rev. Samuel McAdow Home, Dickson, TN 6 The McAdow-McAdams House, Imperial, PA

Town of McAdoo, Texas

McAdoo, Texas is a small unincorporated town at the junction of Farm roads 193 and 264, fifty miles northeast of Lubbock in northwestern Dickens County, Texas. Settlement began in the area when some local school lands, of which the McAdoo site was a part, began to be sold in 1907. In March 1915 a post office was established under the name McAdoo, with Benjamin Hines as postmaster. The town was named for William Gibbs McAdoo (1820-1894), then Secretary of the Treasury under his father-in-law, President Woodrow Wilson, and brother of John David McAdoo (1824-1883), a former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. In 2020 the population was 58.

Town of McAdoo, Pennsylvania

McAdoo, Pennsylvania, is a borough and coal mining town in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Hazleton and seven miles north of Tamaqua. The population was 2,477 at the 2020 census. Originally referred to as Pleasant Hill, the name was changed to McAdoo on the community's incorporation as a Borough on 10 July 1896. According to a poorly researched article published in 2013 in the Republican Herald a local newspaper in Schuylkill County, the town of McAdoo was named after "former U.S. Senator and Postmaster General William Gibbs McAdoo (1820-1894)", but William Gibbs McAdoo was never Postmaster General but did serve as Secretary of the Treasury from March 1913 to December 1918, some 15 years after McAdoo, Pennsylvania, was incorporated, and he did serve as a Senator from California but not until 1933 to 1938. This begs the question, who is McAdoo, Pennsylvania, really named for?

William G. McAdoo House, Marietta, GA

The William Gibbs McAdoo House is a historic house in Marietta, Georgia, U.S. Built in the Antebellum Era about 1850, it was the birthplace of U.S. Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo (1820-1894), and it belonged to Georgia Governor Charles J. McDonald's daughter after the Civil War. The house was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 17, 1978, ID:78000975.

McAdoo House, Waverly, TN

Hugh Montgomery McAdoo was born in nearby Dickson County, joined Frank Maney's Battalion of the CSA 24th Tennessee Sharpshooters from Humphreys County in September 1861, was captured twice by Union soldiers, and ended the war as a Captain. He was the nephew of John M. McAdoo, a Captain in the Revolutionary War. After the Civil War, he attended Cumberland University at Lebanon, and read law with Morris and McNeilly, then began to practice law at Waverly in 1867. In 1873 he was elected to the 38th General Assembly as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. He married in June of 1876, then was elected to the state Senate in 1877, chosen by his colleagues as President of the Senate for the 40th General Assembly (1877-78). The house is a quality example of Late Victorian Italiante residential construction from locally quarried and cut limestone built in 1878 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ID:91001595. A marker on the house was installed by the Tennessee Historical Commission (Marker Number 3E 35) in 2022.

Rev. Samuel McAdow Home, Dickson, TN

The Old Log House is a replica of the original "dogtrot-style" log home of the Reverend Samuel McAdow (1760-1844) where he, together with Rev. Finis Ewing (1773-1841) and Rev. Samuel King (1775-1842), founded the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Feb. 4, 1810. A direct outgrowth of “Revival of 1800”, aka the Second Great Awakening" the new denomination arose to minister to the spiritual needs of a pioneer people who turned from the doctrine of predestination to embrace the “Whosoever Will” gospel of the new church. “Cumberland” was for this Cumberland River valley region; “Presbyterian” described the form of church government. The log house is erected near where the original stood and is located not far from the Burns Post Office region of Dickson County, Tennessee on the grounds of the Montgomery Bell State Park.

The house is marked by Tennessee Historical Commission marker 3E-11, ID:151470. Nearby, two other markers also commemorate the founding of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

• One, erected by the Tennessee Historical Commission, Marker Number 3 E8 is inscribed "1.1 miles southwest is a restoration of the log cabin in which Finis Ewing, Samuel King and Samuel McAdow organized the Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Feb 4, 1810. The congregation was made up of secedent members of the Presbyterian Church and others in the area" ID:143836.
• The second, erected in 1942 by the Tennessee Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church near Burns, Dickson County Tennessee and within "shouting distance" of the McAdow log cabin marker is inscribed "The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized Feb. 4, 1810 by Samuel King, Finis Ewing, Samuel McAdow", ID:151472.

The McAdow-McAdams House, Imperial, PA

The McAdow-McAdams Wilson Log House is a two-story log house, built around 1774. It rests on the Wilson Elementary School property in Imperial, Pennsylvania. It was originally built by John McAdow and later sold to David McAdams. The house was home to the McAdams family from 1801-1865. It passed through many generations of the McAdams family and was later sold to other families. The Carl Meanor family and the Dominic Rossi family also lived there. Wilson School was named after a past Superintendent of the West Allegheny School District, A. D. Wilson and his name was added to the log house name. Now owned by the West Allegheny School District, the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation lists the structure as the only existing log house in Findlay Township.

Major restoration of the building took place during the 1985-86 school year. Wilson School began fundraising in 1986, and with matching funds from the District and the Pittsburgh Foundation, a total of $30,000 was contributed for the restoration. On November 12, 1986, the McAdow-McAdams Wilson Log House was formally dedicated to the children of Wilson Elementary School, their teachers' families, and the residents of Findlay Township.

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