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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1Q_john-edward-lewis_Austin-TX.html
A member of Captain W. J. F. Heard's Company in the Battle of San Jacinto. Born in New York City, October 3, 1808, died April 1, 1892.
His wife Anna (Scott) Lewis Born in Albany, N. Y. 1812 died May 24, 1896.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1P_pflugerville_Pflugerville-TX.html
Henry Pfluger (1803-67), who migrated from Germany to Texas in 1849-50, moved his large family here in 1853. Other settlers joined them, and in 1872 a school was begun on Henry Lisso's farm. Immanuel Lutheran Church was founded in 1874. Primarily …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1O_bailey-hardeman_Austin-TX.html
A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic.
Born in Tennessee, 1795. Died on Caney Creek , Matagorda County October 12, 1836
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1N_elvira-t-manor-davis-house_Austin-TX.html
Elvira T. Manor Davis (1841-1918) was reared in east Travis County near present-day Manor, Texas. Named for her father, she married Blackstone H. Davis whose family owned quarry, supplied stone for the 1853 Texas Capitol. Elvira widowed and the mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1M_moore-hancock-farmstead_Austin-TX.html
Irish native Martin Moore and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (White), left their Austin residences and prosperous Pecan (6th) Street mercantile business and moved to a farm north of town about 1850. Their 521-acre farm, which included this property, was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1L_mount-olive-baptist-church_Austin-TX.html
The Mount Olive Baptist Church congregation was organized March 3, 1889, in the vicinity of Masontown, one of Austin's earliest African settlements. The early years of the congregation coincided with a period of intense optimism and community acti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1K_the-woman-suffrage-movement-in-texas_Austin-TX.html
Legal efforts to enfranchise women in Texas can be traced to 1868, when Rep. T.H. Mundine of Burleson introduced a Woman Suffrage Bill in the State Legislature. In the following five decades Texas women formed suffrage organizations to lobby for t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1J_andrew-jackson-hamilton_Austin-TX.html
A native of Alabama, Andrew Jackson Hamilton moved his family to Texas in the 1840s. He served as State Attorney General and as a member of the State Legislature before being elected to the U.S. Congress in 1859. An opponent of secession, he left …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1I_sweetbrush_Austin-TX.html
Banker John Milton Swisher (1819-1891) built this residence in 1853 in the 400 block of San Antonio St. Noted architect-builder Abner Cook designed the Greek Revival house. In the 1920s, Dr. and Mrs. Z.T. Scott found the building in deteriorated c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1H_tmi-castle_Austin-TX.html
Founded in 1868 in Bastrop, the Texas Military Institute moved to Austin in 1870. The same year, this Victorian "Castle" was built to serve as headquarters for the young men's preparatory school. Prominently sited on top of a hill in view of the C…