You searched for Postal Code: 78617
Showing results 1 to 3 of 3
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27K0_elroy_TX.html
Swedish and German immigrants began to settle in this area in the 1890s. A post office was established in 1898, and by 1918 there were about 70 families in the area. The community, whose economy was based on cotton farming, consisted of homes, far…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXN_haynie-chapel-methodist-church_Garfield-TX.html
Founded 1839, in the Republic of Texas by Rev. John Haynie (1789-1860). First church was of logs, and located a mile north, on land of Andrew Deavers Houston. This building, the third, was put up in 1907.
Placque erected by Houston descendants,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHDN_moores-crossing-bridge_Austin-TX.html
This structure was originally part of a six-span bridge across the Colorado River at Congress Avenue in Austin. Constructed there in 1884, it was designed by the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1910 it was dismantled …