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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K4Z_union-hill-missionary-baptist-church_Bastrop-TX.html
According to local tradition this site was used by area slaves for gathering purposes. Silvie Story, William Hill, Martha Young, Paulie Johnson, Grant McBride, and Martha J. Hill organized this church in 1864 with the help of the Rev. Joshua Brice…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K4Y_wilbargers-bend_Bastrop-TX.html
Founded in 1827 by Josiah Pugh Wilbarger of Austin's Colony Beginning of Wilbarger's Trace, blazed by his son James Harvey Wilbarger 1860 with slaves and ox-wagons carrying commerce to Corpus Christi and Matamoros, Mex.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K4X_the-gotier-trace_Bastrop-TX.html
Originated in 1820s. Crossed the present counties of Austin, Washington, Fayette, Lee, Bastrop; joined San Felipe, capital of Stephen F. Austin's colony, with Bastrop. Marked by James Gotier, a settler who (with several in his family) died in an I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K4W_felipe-entrique-neri-baron-de-bastrop_Bastrop-TX.html
Erected in recognition of the distinguished service to Texas of Felipe Entrique Neri, Baron De Bastrop 1770 - 1829 Pioneer Red River empresario. Land commissioner of Austin's colony. Member of the Congress of Coahuila and Texas. In his hono…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K4V_lost-pines-of-texas_Bastrop-TX.html
Located 80 miles west of the main pine belt of Texas, these trees probably were once part of vast, prehistoric pine forests. As land areas gradually rose, possibly due to glacier activity, most of the forests moved east. Ideal local conditions hav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZL_bluff-trail-overlook_Cedar-Creek-TX.html
The bluff stands 80 feet above the Colorado River at Wilbarger Bend. Josiah Wilbarger was an early settler whose family owned the land on the opposite side of the river during the 1800s. Josiah was one of a few Texans who were scalped and lived to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FWO_early-history-of-the-city-of-bastrop_Bastrop-TX.html
Long before white men arrived, this region was inhabited by Tonkawa and Comanche Indians. In 1691 the first Spanish explorers crossed this territory en route to east Texas. From their route, parts of "El Camino Real" (the King's Highway)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18C4_thomas-h-mays_Bastrop-TX.html
Thomas H. Mays was born in 1802 in Virginia and emigrated to Texas from Tennessee in 1830. In 1834, he became Bastrop's first municipal surveyor and platted the city's new streets. Two years later, he was wounded in the leg at the Battle of San Ja…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18C3_first-baptist-church-of-bastrop_Bastrop-TX.html
On August 3, 1850, Elder G.G. Baggerly, pastor at the First Baptist Church of Austin, organized the Missionary Baptist Church of Bastrop with eleven members. On September 5, 1850, the new church sent its first messengers to the Colorado Baptist As…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18AI_site-of-bastrop-military-institute_Bastrop-TX.html
A Methodist Institution · Chartered January 24, 1852 as Bastrop Academy · ? Rechartered under the Auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1853 · In 1856 became the Bastrop Military Institute
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