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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKR_robert-bonner-halley_Salado-TX.html
A native of Georgia, Robert B. Halley brought his family to this area about 1853. With partner T.J. Eubanks, he operated a liquor distillery and a flour and grist mill on the Lampasas River. Halley served as Bell County Commissioner in 1859 and as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKQ_the-rev-james-e-and-fannie-f-ferguson_Salado-TX.html
Alabama native James Ferguson (1824-1876) became a Methodist preacher in Arkansas before moving to Texas in 1847. As a circuit rider for the next 20 years, he served Methodists in numerous parts of central and southeast Texas. Ferguson wed native …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK9_lufkin-telephone-exchange_Lufkin-TX.html
Telephone service in Lufkin began 1898 when Dr. Alexander Madison Denman and his friend Judge Edwin James Mantooth strung telephone wires between their offices. The system was so popular that the pair soon formed the Lufkin Telephone Exchange with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK5_hermon-and-margaret-l-aiken_Salado-TX.html
New Hampshire native Hermon (Herman) Aiken worked in Illinois and Tennessee before moving to New Orleans. There, he served as a ship's captain taking supplies to Galveston in support of the Texas Revolution. He lived in Texas by 1840. In 1846, wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK4_capt-milton-wesley-damron_Salado-TX.html
Milton Wesley Damron (1825-1887), an early settler and Salado public servant, was born in Tennessee and came to Texas as part of the Mercer Colony. He arrived in the 1840s and shortly afterwards married Sarah Pennington. When original settlement p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK3_dr-welborn-barton-and-louisa-adeline-barton_Salado-TX.html
A graduate of the medical department of Kentucky's Transylvania University, South Carolina native Dr. Wellborn Barton (1821-1883) came to Texas in the late 1840s. After two years of practicing medicine in Bastrop County, he returned to South Carol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK2_old-salado-graveyard_Salado-TX.html
This burial ground was likely in use about the time a U.S. Post Office was established in Salado Springs in 1852. In 1854 Col. Elijah Sterling C. Robertson purchased a large tract of land north and south of the springs that included the cemetery. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK1_salado-united-methodist-church_Salado-TX.html
In 1854, the Rev. Thomas Gilmore, a Methodist circuit rider, led a revival at Pecan Grove on the north side of Salado Creek. He organized a Methodist church and a Union Sunday school in a small frame building. During the next decades, the congrega…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJK0_the-major-a-j-rose-house_Salado-TX.html
Built in 1870-72, this structure typifies the Greek Revival style with its symmetrical facade. The residence was constructed for former Confederate officer Archibald Johnson Rose (1830-1903) and his large family. A prosperous farmer, Rose particip…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJJZ_major-archibald-johnson-rose_Salado-TX.html
Before migrating to Texas, A. J. Rose made a fortune in the 1849 California Gold Rush. In 1857 he and his wife Sallie (Austin) brought their family from Missouri to Travis County, Texas. Later they settled in San Saba County, where Rose ran a mill…