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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBP_gray-guilbeau-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
José Amador was given this property by the Spanish Government in 1817. His heirs sold it to P.L. Buquor in 1847. Later that year, James Gray bought the land and built this house, which he sold to French consul Francois Guilbeau in 1853. Ano…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBO_losana-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Mariano Romano Losana bought this land in 1859, and probably built this house soon afterward. It was purchased by Rafael Lopez in l866 and sold again in 1871, when the deed referred to "the house, out houses, fences and all other improvements…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBN_bowen-kirchner-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Margarita Perez de Rodriguez, consort of Compana de Béxar soldier Jose Antonio Rodriguez, was given this land "in satisfaction of her constitutional allowance." She sold the property in 1851 to San Antonio postmaster John Bowen, who conveye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBL_st-philips-college_San-Antonio-TX.html
St. Philip's College was begun in an adobe house just north of this building in 1898. Originally a parochial day school, it grew into a grammar and industrial school with a boarding department. This two-story brick building was constructed by the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBH_commemorating_San-Antonio-TX.html
The 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signing ceremony which occurred in this place on October 7, 1992 between the countries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBF_original-site-of-st-philips-college_San-Antonio-TX.html
Opening at this site in 1898 as "St. Philip's Saturday evening sewing class for black girls", this college was found by the Rt. Rev. James Steptoe Johnston (1843-1924), Episcopal Bishop of western Texas, who considered education a tool toward solv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBE_john-w-smith_San-Antonio-TX.html
Great early San Antonio leader, a native of North Carolina. Moved to Illinois, then to Missouri, where he was sheriff of Rawls County in 1824. Came to Texas with Green DeWitt in 1826 and settled at Gonzales.
Smith moved to San Antonio in 1828 a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBD_the-german-english-school-buildings_San-Antonio-TX.html
Erected as a school for children of German settlers, these historic buildings have served numerous educational and cultural purposes:
1858 - German-English school founded by "The Lateiner", a group of German intellectuals.
1859 - Purchase…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KAL_halff-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Mayer Halff (1836-1905) immigrated to Texas from Lauterborg, Alsace Lorraine, France, in 1850. In partnership with his brother Solomon, he opened a mercantile business in Liberty and began a cattle ranching enterprise. They moved to San Antonio in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JE7_emma-tenayuca_San-Antonio-TX.html
During the 1930s, San Antonio native Emma Tenayuca was a prominent leader of a movement that fought deplorable working conditions, discrimination and unfair wages on behalf of the city's working poor. As a child, Tenayuca had often visited the Pla…