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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHI4_ancient-rocks-boundary_Alpine-TX.html
The mountains toward the east are limestone reef beds deposited in the Cretaceous and Permian seas about 135 million years ago and 250 million years ago; respectively. The limestone reefs overlie deformed rocks in the Ouachita Fold Belt, which is …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHI3_paisano-pass_Marfa-TX.html
Legend recounts that two Spaniards meeting here greeted each other "Mi Paisano" (My Countryman). First known to history when Juan Dominguez de Mendoza camped here on January 3, 1684. Well known after 1850 as a point on the Chihuahua Trail, an emig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHI2_marfa-lights_Marfa-TX.html
The Marfa Lights, mysterious and unexplained lights that have been reported in the area for over one hundred years, have been the subject of many theories. The first recorded sighting of the lights was by rancher Robert Ellison in 1883. Variously …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHI1_fort-davis_Fort-Davis-TX.html
Established by Lieut. Col. Washington Seawell with six companies of the Eighth U.S. Infantry in October 1854 for protecting travelers on the San Antonio-El Paso Road. Named in honor of the then Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, it was abandoned b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHI0_building-98-fort-d-a-russell_Marfa-TX.html
Constructed in 1920, Building 98 housed the officers club and bachelor officers quarters for Fort D.A.Russell. During the latter years of the World War II, from 1943 to 1945, German prisoners of war from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHHS_rebecca-kilgore-stuart-red_Austin-TX.html
Rebecca Jane Kilgore Stuart became principal of Live Oak Female Seminary in Washington County, Texas, in 1853. In 1854 she married Dr. George Clark Red and continued teaching. The Reds moved to Austin in 1876, and opened Stuart Female Seminary at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHHO_the-radkey-house_Austin-TX.html
A typical post-Civil War Austin dwelling, built about 1870 two blocks from the State Capitol for merchant and metalsmith Bernard Radkey (1846-83) and his wife, Mary Cummings Radkey (1851-96). Structure is of cypress wood. Radkey served as a city a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHHK_platt-simpson-building_Austin-TX.html
Radcliff Platt constructed the original portion of this building about 1871. He operated a livery stable here until 1890 and lived in one side of the structure for a number of years. In 1901 J.S. Simpson (1854-1934) purchased and enlarged the earl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHFC_thomas-pliney-plaster_Austin-TX.html
Who manned one of the twin sisters cannon at the Battle of San Jacinto and was a veteran of the Mexican War, 1847. Born in Tennessee June 6, 1804. Died March 27, 1861.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHES_governor-elisha-marshall-pease_Austin-TX.html
In 1835 E.M. Pease migrated to Texas from his native Connecticut. He joined the Texian forces at the Battle of Gonzales, Oct. 2, 1835, which initiated the Texas War for Independence. In the early days of the Republic, he worked as a government cle…