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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT6Q_abner-hugh-cook_Austin-TX.html
A native of North Carolina, Abner Cook came to the newly created capital city of Austin in 1839 with a skill in design and construction that soon earned him the title of master builder. Working as architect, engineer, and contractor, Cook produced…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSXO_adjutants-general_Austin-TX.html
Texas in 1861-1865 had 90,000 men fighting for the south - many in units east of the Mississippi. Yet at home she had to defend 2,000 miles of coastline and frontier from constant threats made by Federals, Indians and outlaws.
The State Adjutan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSUF_james-l-farmer-jr_Austin-TX.html
Civil rights leader James Leonard Farmer, Jr., son of Pearl (Houston) and Dr. James L. Farmer, Sr., lived here as a child from 1925-30. James, Sr. taught at Samuel Huston College (now Huston-Tillotson University). In 1942, James, Jr. founded the C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSUD_site-of-old-anderson-high-school-kealing-jr-high-school_Austin-TX.html
Robertson Hill School, the first high school for blacks in Austin, opened on the corner of Eleventh and San Marcos Streets in 1884. In 1907 the school moved to the corner of Olive and Curve Streets and was renamed E.H. Anderson High School.
In …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS6_desegregation-of-texas-high-schools_Austin-TX.html
The State of Texas instituted a public school system for African-American students during reconstruction. This segregation of students was further established through the 1896 United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which estab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS5_ebenezer-third-baptist-church_Austin-TX.html
The Rev. C. Ward organized this church in the home of Mrs. Elisa Hawkins in 1875 as the Third Baptist congregation in Austin. A small frame structure at Catalpa and Curve Streets was the place of worship for ten years. A brick sanctuary in Gothic …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS4_university-interscholastic-league_Austin-TX.html
In 1910, the president of the University of Texas at Austin instructed the extension department to organize an academic league for secondary schools to promote educational outreach in the state. At the December 1910 Texas State Teachers Associatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS3_maud-anna-berry-smith-fuller_Austin-TX.html
One of Austin's most revered African American civic and religious leaders, Maud Anna Berry Smith Fuller is best remembered for her generosity, inspirational speeches, Baptist missionary activity, teaching abilities, and compassion for those less f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS2_first-colored-baptist-church_Austin-TX.html
The oldest black Baptist church in the city, the fellowship grew from the slave membership of the First Baptist Church of Austin. In 1854 the committee on religious conditions of the colored population recommended to the churches of the Austin Bap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS0_merrilltown-cemetery_Austin-TX.html
This burial ground has served the surrounding area since the early 1850s. Most of those interred here lived in the Merrilltown community, which Captain Nelson Merrell (d. 1879) established when he settled here in 1837. He operated the post office …