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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18CP_homesite-of-william-scott_Baytown-TX.html
A native of Virginia, William Scott (1784-1837) was a planter, merchant, and stockraiser in his native state and in Kentucky, where he relocated about 1806. He and his family moved briefly to Louisiana in the early 1820s before coming to Texas wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17QX_humble-oil-refining-company_Baytown-TX.html
Ross S. Sterling entered the oil business in 1909, when he invested in the Humble oil field north of Houston. Two years later he formed the Humble Oil Company with five partners: Walter W. Fondren, Charles B. Goddard, William Stamps Farlish, Rober…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17DK_w-l-and-susan-clayton_Houston-TX.html
Mississippi native William Lockhart Clayton (1880-1966) left school early to become a court reporter. His skill attracted an executive of the American Cotton Company, and he moved first to St. Louis then to the New York office the following year. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17DJ_clayton-house_Houston-TX.html
Built in 1916-17, this Georgian revival house was the home of William L. Clayton (1880-1966), founder of Anderson, Clayton, & Co., a cotton trading firm. A leader in public service as well as business, Clayton was a principal architect of the Mars…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17DF_forum-of-civics-of-river-oaks-garden-club_Houston-TX.html
Built about 1880. Until 1920, the John Smith School. Restored 1927 by Will Hogg. A memorial since 1942 to Will and Mike Hogg. Gardens added 1955. Open to public.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17DB_bellaire_Bellaire-TX.html
William Wright Baldwin, president of the South End Land Company, founded Bellaire in 1908 on part of the 9,449-acre ranch once owned by William Marsh Rice, benefactor of Rice Institute (now Rice University). Baldwin surveyed the eastern 1,000 acre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17D4_bellaire-presbyterian-church_Bellaire-TX.html
Bellaire residents founded the non-denominational Bellaire Union Congregational Church and Sunday School in 1911. Services and classes were held in the local school building and the town's streetcar terminal known as the "Pavilion."
In 1919 man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17D3_bellaire-streetcar-line_Bellaire-TX.html
In 1909 the Westmoreland Railroad Company, directed by Bellaire developer William Wright Baldwin, began construction of a streetcar line between this site and Houston's Main Street (4 mi. E) to improve transportation between Bellaire and Houston. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16QY_twentieth-century-development-of-freedmans-town_Houston-TX.html
Founded on the south banks of Buffalo Bayou soon after the June 19, 1865 emancipation of enslaved blacks, Freedman's Town became the center of Houston's African American community. It originally stretched from Buffalo Bayou south to Sutton Street,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16QW_temple-beth-israel_Houston-TX.html
Congregation Beth Israel is the oldest Jewish congregation in Texas. Early Jewish families that settled in the area formed the Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1844, under the leadership of Lewis Levy. By 1854, seventeen adults organized themselves in…