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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23LW_the-old-triangle_San-Marcos-TX.html
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, San Marcos firemen were summoned to a blaze by the clanging sound of a huge triangle which hung from a tree limb at the right of this entrance to the Hays County Courthouse.
The great (55 pound) triang…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23LV_the-courthouses-of-hays-county_San-Marcos-TX.html
When Hays County originated in 1848, its one public building was a log church-schoolhouse that had to serve as the courthouse, along with its other uses.
Although the San Marcos townsite, platted in 1851, contained a court square donated to the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GGN_mcgehee-crossing_San-Marcos-TX.html
The Camino Real, also known as the Old San Antonio Road and the King's Highway, followed a route from Nacogdoches to the Rio Grande. Louis Juchereau de St. Denis (1676-1744) traveled the route to establish trade between the French in Louisiana and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GGM_site-of-coronal-institute_San-Marcos-TX.html
Established 1868 by educator O.N. Hollingsworth. A private school, it was coeducational and offered military training to boys. So-named because it was a Coronal (crown) atop this hill. In 1870 the Rev. R.H. Belvin bought school, but sold it to the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GGJ_the-calaboose_San-Marcos-TX.html
Constructed as the first Hays County Jail in 1873, this small brick structure was later an annex for black prisoners. Known locally as the Calaboose, it became a neighborhood recreation center after the city of San Marcos acquired it in 1885. In t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FTB_site-of-the-first-town-of-san-marcos_San-Marcos-TX.html
Known officially as Villa de San Marcos de Neve. Established in 1807 by Mexican settlers. The population on January 6, 1808 was 81. A flood in 1808 and subsequent Indian raids led to its abandonment in 1812
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CGE_post-san-marcos_San-Marcos-TX.html
The Republic of Texas Congress in Dec. 1838 called for military roads and forts from Red River to the Nueces. A road from Austin, joining El Camino Real near St. Mark's Springs, was designed for rapid communication between San Antonio and the Capi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B4Z_charles-lewis-mcgehee-cabin_San-Marcos-TX.html
The McGehee family came to Texas from Alabama in 1847. In 1859, Charles Lewis McGehee, Jr. (1837-1929) acquired this property along the San Marcos River. He soon built this cabin (1/2 mi.E) for his wife, Sarah Jane (Humphreys), and their children.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B4X_the-cattle-drives_San-Marcos-TX.html
Starting in 1866 the broad valley behind this marker was the scene of cattle drives from the south Texas brush country to Kansas railheads, where livestock was then shipped to eastern markets. These old routes where always imprecise because, as on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B4T_col-ignacio-elizondos-1813-campaign_San-Marcos-TX.html
In 1813 royalist Lieutenant Colonel Ignacio Elizondo led 500 cavalrymen in pursuit of retreating Mexican and Anglo-American insurrectionists along this road.
A hacienda owner in Coahuila, Elizondo initially joined Father Miguel Hidalgo's rebell…