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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKG0_menger-hotel_San-Antonio-TX.html
Early San Antonio boarding house keeper, Wm. Menger in 1859 opened fine stone hotel, the "new" Menger, beside Alamo Plaza. To host Indians, presidents, poets, actors, generals, singers, public of the world. Served venison, quail, mutton, beef, sou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFZ_founding-of-the-pan-american-round-table_San-Antonio-TX.html
Mrs. Florence Terry Griswold (1875-1941), a native Texan reared along the Mexican border, provided aid to refugees of Mexico's 1910 revolution. On October 16, 1916, she and 21 friends met at the historic Menger Hotel to found the Pan American Roun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFY_san-antonio-section-national-council-of-jewish-women_San-Antonio-TX.html
On May 13, 1907, the San Antonio Section of the National Council of Jewish Women was organized in the Menger Hotel. Anna Hertzberg was elected president by the 15 charter members. The council immediately became active in the development of social …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFW_stevens-building_San-Antonio-TX.html
One of the finest remaining structures in San Antonio's late 19th-century commercial district, this building was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by James Riely Gordon (1864-1937) and was completed in 1891. Over the years the first f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFV_commerce-street-bridge_San-Antonio-TX.html
The main ford between San Fernando de Bexar (the city) and San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), this river crossing has long been a focal point of history. At its footbridge on Feb 23, 1836, Alamo emissary Albert Martin met to parley with Santa Anna…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFU_alamo-funeral-pyre_San-Antonio-TX.html
On this spot bodies of heroes slain at the Alamo were burned on a funeral pyre. Fragments of the bodies were afterward buried here. This tablet is the gift of relatives of Green B. Jemision and of other friends.
Second MarkerThe De Zavala Chapt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFT_250th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-san-antonio_San-Antonio-TX.html
Area was first explored and named by Spaniards in 1691. Colonial settlement began here May 1-5, 1718, with founding of Franciscan Mission San Antonio de Valero (later known as "The Alamo"). In vicinity of the mission was the Presidio San Antonio d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKF0_menger-bar_San-Antonio-TX.html
Exact replica of pub in London's House of Lords. Theodore Roosevelt recruited "Rough Riders" here in 1898. Site of more cattle deals than any other place in Texas and San Antonio's oldest continuously operated saloon.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEZ_san-antonio-river-indian-springs_San-Antonio-TX.html
On this site are the springs used by the inhabitants of the ancient Indian village and later by Mission San Antonio de Valero and its adjoining pueblo.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEY_dr-ferdinand-ludwig-herff_San-Antonio-TX.html
Ferdinand Ludwig Von Herff (1820-1912) was the son of Christian and Eleanora (Von Meusebach) Herff, prominent citizens of Darmstadt, Germany. The younger Von Herff studied in Giessen, Bonn and Berlin, graduating with a medical degree in 1843. He s…