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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKR_peters-prairie-school_Brady-TX.html
During the 1850s and 1860s, Mason County landowner "Major" Joshua Peters, supplied cut prairie grasses from here to Fort Mason for their horses. The community which developed took the name Peter's Prairie. In 1877, John Rhoads and W.H. M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKQ_old-fort-mason_Mason-TX.html
Situated near a spring long used by Indians; built of stone quarried from Post Hill. Fort helped protect Texas frontier from Indians. Colonel Robert E. Lee stationed in Texas 2 years, commanded Fort Mason from Feb. 1860 to Feb. 1861. Here he made …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKO_two-sheriffs-of-mason-county_Mason-TX.html
A native of Kentucky, Thomas S. Milligan (1810-1860) moved to this area in 1855 and operated a change station for the stage line. He was also a rancher and supplied beef to the soldiers at Fort Mason. Shortly after Mason County was organized in 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PKI_homesite-of-john-o-meusebach-1812-1897_Mason-TX.html
By 1848, German colonization reached area under direction of John O. Meusebach, who succeeded Prince Carol of Solms-Braunfels as colony leader and who signed treaty with Comanches allowing peaceful settlement of the land between the Llano and San …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTUQ_kothmann-homesite-and-cemetery_Art-TX.html
Heinrich Conrad Kothmann (1798-1881) and his wife Ilse Katherine Pahlmann (1810-1905) and their family sailed from Germany to Indianola, Texas in 1845. Among the first families to settle in Fredericksburg, the Kothmanns were issued a 640 acre land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK03_site-of-fort-mason_Mason-TX.html
Established July 6, 1851by the U. S. Armyas a protection to the frontier
Named in honor of Lieut. George T. Mason,killed in action near Brownsville,April 25, 1846
Albert Sidney Johnston,George H. Thomas, Earl Van Dornand Robert E. Lee,of the…