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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHO7_site-of-swedish-evangelical-free-church_Austin-TX.html
Worship services started in 1889 by Swedish immigrants led to founding of Swedish Evangelical Free Church in Decker community (10 mi. E) in July 1892. A similar Swedish congregation originated in April 1904 at Elroy (20 mi. SE). In 1923 the two co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHO5_swedish-central-methodist-church_Austin-TX.html
Organized in 1873 by the Rev. Carl Charnquist, the Swedish Methodist Church built a sanctuary at Red River and 15th street. Led by the Rev. O.E. Olander, the congregation moved to this site in 1898 and occupied buildings of disbanded Central Metho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHNA_state-bar-of-texas_Austin-TX.html
On July 15, 1882, a volunteer organization of Texas attorneys known as the Texas Bar Association was established in Galveston, with Judge Thomas J. Devine as the first president. The forerunner of the State Bar of Texas, the group met annually to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMK_southwestern-telegraph-telephone-building_Austin-TX.html
Veteran Travis County official and historian Frank Brown (1833-1913) erected this structure in 1886. Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company bought and restyled the building in 1898. Architect A.O. Watson designed the ornate fa?ade. Previously …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMI_smith-clark-smith-house_Austin-TX.html
When the State Capitol burned in 1881, Scottish-born James Baird Smith (1843-1907) cleared the site and erected a temporary statehouse nearby. Salvaged brick and stone, which he used to build this rent house about 1886, probably came from the burn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMG_henry-smith_Austin-TX.html
Henry Smith (1788-1851) immersed himself in public affairs soon after arriving in Texas in 1827. Initially a local political leader in what is now Brazoria County, he was appointed in 1835 as a delegate to the San Felipe Consultation, which met to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMF_old-b-j-smith-property_Austin-TX.html
Purchased from State of Texas at auction in 1853, by Smith, a school proprietor. Structure, one of the better early homes in Austin, was probably built in the 1850's.
Handmade hardware, doors, and other structural parts reveal fine workmanship.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMD_sixth-street_Austin-TX.html
Originally named Pecan Street on Edwin Waller's 1839 plan for Austin, Sixth Street served as a farm to market road entering the city from the east. Bringing together a diverse ethnic population, it became a center for Austin's 19th century develop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM5_scholz-garten_Austin-TX.html
German immigrant August Scholz (1825-1891) opened Scholz's Hall at this site in 1866. About the turn of the century, this building replaced the original hall. A German social club, the Austin Saengerrunde, purchased the property in 1908 and added …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLE_j-p-schneider-store_Austin-TX.html
In the mid-1860s, shortly after the Civil War, Jacob Peter "Jake" Schneider (1852-1925) began working in William Brueggerhoff's general mercantile store, and part-time as a legislative page in the Capitol. About 1870, he and his mother, Margarita …