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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYP_bethany-lutheran-church_Fredericksburg-TX.html
Early settlers in Fredericksburg worshiped together in a community church, the Vereins Kirche. On March 27, 1887, the Rev. John Heinzelmann and about 80 families organized a separate congregation known as Die Evangelische Kirche (The Evangelical c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYO_market-square-marktplatz_Fredericksburg-TX.html
This Square, originally a two-block area which included what is now called the Courthouse Square, has been at the center of Fredericksburg since the city's founding in 1846. The area was still heavily forested when the town's Vereins Kirche was bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNXY_the-lbj-plaza_Austin-TX.html
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and opened in the spring of 1971. The design featured the monumental library building clad in Roman travertine and an expansive plaza p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNTE_dobyville-cemetery_Burnet-TX.html
The Dobyville Cemetery is the last visible remnant of the Community of Dobyville, Settled in the 1850's and named for the towns location on a white adobe rock hill. The Cemetery contains more than 230 marked graves, between 60 and 70 graves are un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNR5_first-baptist-church_Moscow-TX.html
Built 1849 by members. Square nails; hand-sawn lumber. Pegs join sills, floors, framing. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNQU_grave-of-colonel-j-w-fannin-and-his-men_Goliad-TX.html
After battle of Coleto (March 19 - 20, 1836), where a Texas Army under Col. James Walker Fannin met defeat by Mexicans in superior numbers, the Texas soldiers were held in Presidio La Bahia, supposedly as war prisoners. However, by order of Mexica…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNQ9_john-wesley-hardin-1853-1895_Moscow-TX.html
Notorious outlaw who killed over 30 men. Son of a Methodist minister. "Wes" was an ardent southerner. His resistance to Union occupation troops made him a hero and set him on his lawless career. He always claimed he shot only in self defense. He w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNP1_medal-of-honor-fight-1875_Comstock-TX.html
In the 1870s, the U.S. Army relied on Black Seminole (Seminole-Negro) Indian scouts in campaigns against raiding Native Americans along the Texas-Mexico border. In April 1875, Lt. John L. Bullis and three scouts — Sergeant John Ward, Private…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOW_town-of-corrigan_Corrigan-TX.html
Located in piney woods of east Texas. Founded about 1860 by landowner and settler James B. Hendry, who donated property for original townsite.
When the Texas & New Orleans Railroad was built through area in the early 1880s, a prosperous timber…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNMY_blanco-county-trail-drives_Johnson-City-TX.html
From this headquarters site in the 1870s, the brothers J. T. and Sam Ealy Johnson started thousands of cattle up trails to Kansas and other shipping or market points. To the west, at Williamson's Creek, and at Deer Creek (southeast) the Johnsons h…