Texas 1936 Centennial Markers and Monuments
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM27H2_james-mcdaniel_Milford-TX.html
Served in the Army of Texas in
1836 · Born in Alabama, September
10, 1810 · Died January 11, 1885
His wife
Isabella Weir
McDaniel
Born in Alabama, March
8, 1818 · Died May 4, 1897
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM27H3_thomas-j-jordan_Milford-TX.html
Soldier in the Texas Army in
1836 · Born in Tennessee June
17, 1808 · Died November 24, 1880
His wife
Stacy Choate Jordan
Born in Tennessee, October 15,
1816 · Died January 27, 1884
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM27OC_kenedy-county_Sarita-TX.html
Created April 2, 1921
out of Cameron, Willacy
and Hildago Counties
Named for Capt. Mifflin Kenedy
1818 — 1895
Sent to Texas 1846 on
United States Army supply boats
Commercial Navigator of the
Rio Grande 1848-1860
Sarita is the County Seat
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM27OL_matagorda-county_Bay-City-TX.html
Organized March 6, 1834, into the
Mexican municipality of Matagorda
Created a county of the same name
in 1836
Organized in 1837
Named for the Bay
on which it fronts
County Seat, Matagorda 1837-1894
Bay City, since
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM27RM_bandera-county_Bandera-TX.html
A strategic Indian point in early days. Rangers and Comanches struggled here in 1843. In 1854 Elder Lyman Wight settled Mormon colony. In 1855 Poles settled here. From early days a part of Bexar County, created and organized in 1856
Bandera, the county s…
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Founded on March 21, 1845 by Carl, Prince of Solms-Braunfels, Commissioner-General of the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas. Named after Prince Solms' estate, Braunfels, on the Lahn River in Germany. Its permanence was assured by John…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM27RT_webb-county_Laredo-TX.html
Formed from Nueces County
Created January 28, 1848
Organized March 16, 1848
Named in honor of
James Webb, 1792-1856
Attorney General and Secretary
of State of The Republic of Texas
1838-1841
Laredo, the County Seat
Founded in 1755 by
Tomas Sanch…
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Formed from Nueces County
Created February 10, 1848
Organized August 7, 1848
Named for Dr. James Harper Starr
1809 - 1890
Pioneer Texas surgeon and Indian fighter
Located at Nacogdoches in 1837
Secretary of the Treasury
of the Republic of Texas
183…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM27SH_wilson-county_Floresville-TX.html
Created February 13, 1860
Organized August 6, 1860
Named in honor of
James Charles Wilson
1816 - 1861
Member of the Mier Expedition
District Clerk of Brazoria County, 1844
Senator from Matagorda County
Floresville, the County Seat
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM27WI_brownsville-home-of-charles-stillman_Brownsville-TX.html
Founder of Brownsville and partner in firm of M. Kenedy and Company, which opened the Rio Grande to steamboat navigation and controlled much of the commerce of Northern Mexico, 1848-1868.
This house, erected about 1850,
was the birthplace of
James Stil…