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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM24_walch-home_Fredericksburg-TX.html
In 1845, Johan (John) Joseph Walch (1828-1914) migrated to Texas from Germany. In 1847 he settled in Fredericksburg, where he worked as a stonemason. Before Walch married Wilhelmine Gaertner in 1851, he erected a two-room limestone house on this l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZD_taft-agricultural-industrial-complex_Taft-TX.html
The Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company laid out the town of Taft on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad line in 1900. The intention of the company directors was to present Taft and surrounding farms as a model community to attract northern inves…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXP_meansville-and-kaleta_Odem-TX.html
Meansville(3 miles southeast)Col. William Marshall Means, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, came to San Patricio County with his family in the 1850s and settled southeast of present Odem. Means was county sheriff from 1862 to 1867. The cente…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLUV_indian-quarters-habitaciones-de-los-indios_San-Antonio-TX.html
In the early years, mission Indians lived in small detached houses called jacales. In 1755, eighty-four of these jacales lined "streets" in what is today the plaza. But after 1768, as conflicts with Apaches and Comanches increased, the mission was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLU5_andersons-mill_Leander-TX.html
Built in 1863byThomas AndersonA native of PennsylvaniaUsed as a powder millfor the Confederate Armiesduring the Civil War
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSX_john-m-king-log-house_Cedar-Park-TX.html
This small one and one-half story log house on Cypress Creek in northwest Travis County could have been built as early as 1859. John M. King bought the property from John Robey in 1879 and indicated there was a dwelling on it at that time. King (1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSV_141st-infantry-regiment_San-Antonio-TX.html
Texas Revolution - 1836Spanish-American War - 1898Cuban Occupation - 1898Mexican Border Serivce - 1916World War I - 1918World War II 1940-1945CampaignsNaples-Foggia · AnzioRome-Arno · Southern FranceArdennes · AlsaceRhineland …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLQS_prairie-switch_El-Campo-TX.html
El Campo was known as "Prairie Switch" when it was established in 1881 as a siding and shipping point on the New York, Texas and Mexican Railroad, where cattlemen rounded up their herds for shipping. It was also a station for construction gangs wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLMX_early-odem-area-schools_Odem-TX.html
As population increased in south central San Patricio County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, independent schools were established in a number of communities, serving students in isolated areas before the construction of a good road syst…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLMK_white-point-rosita_Odem-TX.html
Native American tribes occupied land in this vicinity before Spanish explorers claimed the region in the 18th Century. Anglo American settlers began arriving in the area in the 1830s, and in 1856 brothers, Frank and Eddie White purchased land here…