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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJQ6_paso-de-la-santa-cruz_Menard-TX.html
Spot where in 1753 Juan Galvan, Spanish explorer, put up a huge cross, to show his choice of site for Mission San Saba. Indians gathered at the cross, remaining to participate in the first known Christian worship service in this area.
The Missi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJQ5_arroyo-de-juan-lorenzo_Menard-TX.html
Name used by Spaniards of Presidio de San Saba (in existence from 1757 to 1770) for this stream now called Celery Creek.
Stone to build Presidio was quarried from bluffs along the creek, and deep banks let hostile Indians approach undiscovered,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPT_site-of-bivouac-and-banquet-for-the-new-orleans-greys_Nacogdoches-TX.html
Led by Adolphus Sterne, citizens of Nacogdoches helped outfit a volunteer force, the New Orleans' Greys, to fight in the Texas War for Independence. One company of Greys traveled overland to San Antonio by way of Nacogdoches in Nov. 1835. The 50-1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPS_home-of-adolphus-sterne_Nacogdoches-TX.html
A pioneer citizen of Nacogdoches. Born in Cologne, Germany, April 5, 1801. Alcalde at Nacogdoches under the Mexican Government, member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas. Died March 27, 1859. Buried in Nacogdoches. Here General Sam Houston m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPL_community-of-coltharp_Kennard-TX.html
By the late 1850s Eli Coltharp lived beside Cochina Bayou. He opened a store and post office on the stage route west of Nacogdoches. The farm area called Coltharp Hill boasted a gin, gristmill, blacksmith and millinery shops. A school building hou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPK_hagerville-community_Kennard-TX.html
Kentuckian James Henry Hager (1822-1879) and his wife Naoma (Clark) came to Texas in the 1840s. Hager, a farmer and cabinet maker, opened a blacksmith shop and mill in Houston County. The Nacogdoches-to-Navasota stage and mail road ran beside his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPJ_first-baptist-church-of-kennard_Kennard-TX.html
In October 1903, approximately fourteen men and women organized the First Baptist Church of Kenard. The congregation selected four trustees: Dr. T.M. Sherman, George W. Willis, M.B. Matchett and Hugh P. English, who served the church in many capac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJP8_kennard_Kennard-TX.html
The town of Kennard was founded in 1903 by the Louisiana and Texas Lumber Company and platted on 160 acres. Land agent Alexander McTavish also acted as Kennard's first postmaster. The town served as a terminus for the Eastern Texas Railroad, a lin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJP7_former-rosenwald-school_Kennard-TX.html
A symbol of Black America's pride in education, plus crusade of Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), a Chicagoan who in 1913 began to fund school buildings for Negroes. By 1920, when this one-teacher structure was built at Ratcliff (4 miles east), Rosenw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOZ_rocky-cliff_Austin-TX.html
Built about 1871 by Daniel P. Kinney, who came to Austin in early 1850's; original homesite, at the time an extensive farm, contained areas later in Zilker Park and Barton Heights.
Structure of hard limestone, with 20-inch walls, had rooms adde…