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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AMT_austin-county_Bellville-TX.html
A part of the grant to Stephen F. Austin in 1821 Created a municipality under the Mexican government in 1828 Became a county of the Republic of Texas, March 17, 1836 Named in honor of Stephen Fuller Austin, 1793-1836 Pioneer empresario Fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27RP_bellville-turnverein-pavilion_Bellville-TX.html
In the 19th century two organizations, the Bellville Social Club and the Bellville Turnverein Gut Heil, sponsored community-wide social activities. The Social Club purchased this property from Herman Miller in 1883 and planned construction of a pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27A4_san-felipe-de-austin_Sealy-TX.html
First Anglo-American capital of Texas. Came into being on July 26, 1828, as capital of the Austin Colony, by decree of the Mexican government. Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin had begun under the 1821 grant from Mexico the settlement of more than…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27A3_stephen-fuller-austin_San-Felipe-TX.html
Stephen F. Austin · Father of Texas, November 3, 1793-December 27, 1836. He planted the first Anglo-American colony in Texas · "The Old Three Hundred" · In his several colonies he settled more than a thousand families. He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27A2_san-felipe-de-austin-cemetery_San-Felipe-TX.html
San Felipe de Austin was established in 1824 as the community and administrative headquarters of Stephen F. Austin's original Anglo American colony in Texas. The site for the township was chosen by Austin and the Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de Bastr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27A1_san-felipe-united-methodist-church_Sealy-TX.html
In 1837, the town of San Felipe de Austin was incorporated and the town council built a multi-purpose building to be used as a town hall, school, and church on land known as "Constitution Square." The one-story building was constructed o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TEV_town-of-shelby-historical_Round-Top-TX.html
Named for 1822 settler David Shelby, this town grew up at the mill of German pioneer Otto Von Roeder. The Ohlendorfs, Vogelsangs, Rothermels, and Vanderwerths arrived in 1845; other Germans came in ensuing years. The post office opened 1846 with S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TEU_henniger-family-cemetery-historical_Fayetteville-TX.html
Nicholaus Henniger (1794-1853) came to Texas from Germany in 1847 with his wife Fredericke and children Christian, Hermann, August, Caroline and Pauline. On his farm he built a log house, kept peace with passing Indians, and prospered as a cattler…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CVL_liedertafel_Sealy-TX.html
Sealy's German immigrants were famous for their love of music. A group of men, some of them Sealy's pioneer settlers, had formed a singing society, called Liedertafel, by 1899. They met primarily in the home of Ferdinand Lux. Lux and Fritz Kinkler…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15NK_martin-allen_Wallis-TX.html
As a young man Martin Allen assisted his father, Benjamin, in surveying roads in their native state of Kentucky. He married Elizabeth Vice in 1804 and by 1810 they and their three children were living in Louisiana. Martin joined the Gutierrez-M…
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