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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFT_hitchcock-depot_Santa-Fe-TX.html
According to local oral tradition, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad (GCSF) gained a vital right-of-way through Emily Hitchcock's property in 1875 by agreeing to establish a depot named for her deceased husband, Lent Munson Hitchcock. GCSF pl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFC_alta-loma_Santa-Fe-TX.html
Traveling west from the Gulf of Mexico the land rises gradually and becomes Alta Loma (Spanish for high land) in this area of Galveston County. In 1893 the Alta Loma Investment and Improvement Company platted a townsite here along a Gulf, Colorado…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFB_dairy-industry-in-the-santa-fe-area_Santa-Fe-TX.html
The railroad communities of Arcadia, Alta Loma, and Algoa, established in the 1890s, formed the nucleus of the Santa Fe area at the turn of the 20th century. Citrus and fig production, truck farming, and a burgeoning daily industry dominated the l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFA_first-baptist-church-of-alta-loma_Santa-Fe-TX.html
Original site of oldest church in Alta Loma; second oldest Baptist church on Galveston mainland. Organized on Nov. 10, 1895, in a local hotel; 26 charter members. Established Arcadia Baptist Church, 1945. Purchased "U. S. S. Houston" Memorial …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF9_arcadia-christian-church_Santa-Fe-TX.html
The town of Arcadia was established on the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad in 1890. This church was organized in 1894 and represents the oldest surviving church in the community. Initial services were held by the Rev. T. Patterson in a build…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF8_runge-park_Santa-Fe-TX.html
Galveston businessman Henry J. Runge (1859-1922), European-educated son of a German immigrant, bought the land and laid out the town of Arcadia in 1890. At that time he donated this site for use as a park. Later the Galveston County Commissioners …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTY_evergreen-cemetery_Santa-Fe-TX.html
In 1890 Henry J. Runge laid out the town of Arcadia at the site of a railroad depot on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad near here known as Hall's Station. Sometime between 1890 and 1897, Evergreen Cemetery was established to serve the grow…
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