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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKW_bell-county_Belton-TX.html
Settlement began on Lampasas River, 1847. Created Jan. 22, organized Aug. 1, 1850. Named for Peter Hansbrough Bell (1812-1898), native of Virginia; veteran of Battle of San Jacinto; served in Somervell expedition to stop Mexico's Raids into Texas;…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKV_little-river-fort_Belton-TX.html
A stockade and blockhouse of the Republic of Texas. Built in November, 1836, by a unit of some 20 Rangers under Lt. George B. Erath (soldier-statesman for whom Erath County was named).
By Christmas they had erected 7 or 8 cabins, a blockhouse a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKT_salado-cemetery_Salado-TX.html
Established 1856 on 2.5-acre site given by E.S.C. Robertson.
Distinguished Texans interred here include the Rev. G.W. Baines, great-grandfather of President Lyndon B. Johnson; the Rev. and Mrs. J.E. Ferguson, parents of Governor James E. Fergus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKS_dr-samuel-j-and-charlotte-h-jones_Salado-TX.html
Educators Samuel Jackson (1858-1918) and Charlotte Hallaran (d. 1904) Jones taught at Salado College in 1884-1885. In 1890, the Joneses opened Thomas Arnold High School in the former Salado College buildings. Charlotte died in 1904, leaving five y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKR_robert-bonner-halley_Salado-TX.html
A native of Georgia, Robert B. Halley brought his family to this area about 1853. With partner T.J. Eubanks, he operated a liquor distillery and a flour and grist mill on the Lampasas River. Halley served as Bell County Commissioner in 1859 and as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKQ_the-rev-james-e-and-fannie-f-ferguson_Salado-TX.html
Alabama native James Ferguson (1824-1876) became a Methodist preacher in Arkansas before moving to Texas in 1847. As a circuit rider for the next 20 years, he served Methodists in numerous parts of central and southeast Texas. Ferguson wed native …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK5_hermon-and-margaret-l-aiken_Salado-TX.html
New Hampshire native Hermon (Herman) Aiken worked in Illinois and Tennessee before moving to New Orleans. There, he served as a ship's captain taking supplies to Galveston in support of the Texas Revolution. He lived in Texas by 1840. In 1846, wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK4_capt-milton-wesley-damron_Salado-TX.html
Milton Wesley Damron (1825-1887), an early settler and Salado public servant, was born in Tennessee and came to Texas as part of the Mercer Colony. He arrived in the 1840s and shortly afterwards married Sarah Pennington. When original settlement p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK3_dr-welborn-barton-and-louisa-adeline-barton_Salado-TX.html
A graduate of the medical department of Kentucky's Transylvania University, South Carolina native Dr. Wellborn Barton (1821-1883) came to Texas in the late 1840s. After two years of practicing medicine in Bastrop County, he returned to South Carol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK2_old-salado-graveyard_Salado-TX.html
This burial ground was likely in use about the time a U.S. Post Office was established in Salado Springs in 1852. In 1854 Col. Elijah Sterling C. Robertson purchased a large tract of land north and south of the springs that included the cemetery. …