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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HHJ_letter-from-the-alamo_San-Antonio-TX.html
Commandancy of the Alamo, Bexar, Feby. 24th, 1836- To the people of Texas & all Americans in the world— Fellow citizens and compatriots I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans and Santa Anna - I have sustained a c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HHI_the-alamo-el-alamo_San-Antonio-TX.html
Side 1 The Alamo Mission San Antonio de Valero — famed as The Alamo — founded 1718 by Spanish Missionaries. Secularized 1793. Garrison for Spanish Cavalry and Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras y Alamo. Between February 23 and Ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FJQ_sam-houston-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Erected in 1886 as the post's first permanent hospital this building provided seventy beds for the sick and wounded. Removing the casualties from the unhealthy riverside location of the temporary hospital in the city, which was a proven spawning g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18PC_ludwig-mahncke_San-Antonio-TX.html
Ludwig Mahncke was born in Mecklenburg-Strelitz (now Germany) in 1846. Mahncke married Katarina (Kemp) in 1871 and the couple had two daughters. The family left Germany and arrived in the United States in 1882, settling in San Antonio shortly afte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18DS_kelly-no-2-flight-line_San-Antonio-TX.html
In November 1916, Maj. Benjamin Foulois of the Aviation Section of the U.S. Army's Signal Corps chose a tract of land approximately three-fourths of a mile to the southeast of this spot to serve as a flying field for the Army Aviation Corps. In 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18DR_kelly-air-force-base_San-Antonio-TX.html
As World War I raged in Europe, the United States began to build up and expand its military aviation forces. In his search for a new army aviation training site, Maj. Benjamin Foulois found 700 acres of flat farmland with a water supply near the M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18DP_alamo-portland-and-roman-cement-company_San-Antonio-TX.html
Near this site in 1879, Englishman William Loyd discovered a blue argillaceous limestone believed to be a natural cement rock. Analysis by San Antonio druggist and chemist George H. Kalteyer confirmed the rock contained proper proportions of lime …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM179V_t-c-frost_San-Antonio-TX.html
(monument text): (1833-1903) Educator Attorney Public Servant soldier merchant banker (plaque text): "Thomas Claiborne Frost (1833 - 1903)Born in Jackson County, Alabama in 1833, T. C. Frost graduated from Irving College in Tennessee before ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15MF_the-oge-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
One of early stone residences of San Antonio. First floor and basement were built as early as 1857 when place was owned by Attorney Newton A. Mitchell and wife Catherine (Elder). Louis Oge (1832-1915) bought house in 1881, after migrating (1845…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15ME_little-church-of-la-villita_San-Antonio-TX.html
In 1846, the Rev. J.W. De Vilbiss bought a Methodist Church site (across street) in this block. He set up a bell, to denote worship site, but did not build when lot title proved defective. In 1879, German Methodists erected this Gothic Revival Chu…
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