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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8G_shiloh-mccutcheon-cemetery_Taylor-TX.html
The community of Shiloh dates from 1848, when both Nelson Morey and Josiah Taylor established stores in this area. Shiloh spread along the banks of Brushy Creek near Wilbarger Crossing, which was later called Shiloh Crossing and Rogan Crossing. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8D_hutto-baptist-church_Hutto-TX.html
Hutto Baptist Church was formally organized in 1882. Served by ministers Abram Weaver and Joseph Gronde, the congregation met in the local schoolhouse until a sanctuary was constructed in 1883. Destroyed by a storm in 1886, it was rebuilt twice fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8C_cabin-from-gabriel-mills-area_Round-Rock-TX.html
This cabin of squared logs and hand-hewn limestone was built in the early 1850s near the village of Gabriel Mills (20 mi. NW). It stood on property owned in 1850-53 by Samuel Mather (1812-78), miller and blacksmith who first settled the area. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8A_site-of-stony-point-school_Round-Rock-TX.html
Stony Point School was established in Williamson County by 1891. Children living in the rural area attended the school, which served students from grades one through eight. Most of the students were sons and daughters of families that emigrated fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH89_st-johns-cemetery_Georgetown-TX.html
This burial ground is located on the site where the first Swedish Methodist church in the Brushy Creek area was located. In the early 1870s, Swedish immigrants began to settle in this area and by the early 1880s, Pastor C.C. Charmquist and residen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH87_olson-house_Round-Rock-TX.html
Swedish immigrant Johanna Olson (1835-1914) purchased this property in 1907 after the returned to the Round Rock area upon the death of her husband, Johannes, in 1894. Local contractor A.S. Robertson built this house for her in 1908, and it remain…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH85_granite-for-the-state-capitol_Austin-TX.html
In the 1880s, the arrival of the railroad helped develop western Williamson County and contributed to the construction of a new state capitol. When quarried limestone proved deficient for the new statehouse, contractors chose granite from Burnet C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGY9_wedemeyer-hospital-site_Taylor-TX.html
Occupied 1915 by early prominent physician, Dr. G.A. Wedemeyer (Aug. 26, 1875 - Jan. 24, 1963), a native of Burton, Washington County, who came to Taylor 1905. Hospital was continuously operated until 1957; then became retirement home.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGY8_wilson-springs-cemetery_Taylor-TX.html
Located on land originally granted to George Washington Glasscock, the Wilson Spring Cemetery was established by the family of John S. Wilson, who purchased the land in 1854. His brother, Robert W. Wilson, acquired the land in 1857, and a communit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGY7_william-cornelius-dalrymple_Georgetown-TX.html
North Carolina native William Cornelius Dalrymple served in the Texas Revolutionary forces and as a Texas Ranger during the 1830s. He married Elizabeth Wilbarger in Bastrop County, Texas, in 1840, and settled on the San Gabriel River in 1846. He s…