On Jefferson Street south of West 38th Street, on the right when traveling south.
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 . . . — — Map (db m26342) HM
On Marshall Lane north of Enfield Road, on the right when traveling north.
Carrie Margaret (Graham) and Paul Conrad Crusemann had this house built in 1917 as one of the first homes in the Enfield subdivision. Mrs. Crusemann was a granddaughter of Texas Governor E.M. Pease, and served as a silent partner in the Enfield . . . — — Map (db m149745) HM
On Green Lane south of Wooldridge Drive, in the median.
In the 1930s, Ireland Graves (1885-1969), an attorney and former district judge, bought property in Pemberton Heights from Josephine Lucile Fisher. He hired noted Austin architect Hugo F. Kuehne to build a home for him and his wife, Mary Willis . . . — — Map (db m168159) HM
Near Lorrain Street north of Enfield Road, on the left when traveling north. Reported missing.
In 1916, the heirs of Gov. Elisha Pease established the Enfield Realty and Home Building Company and began dividing the Pease estate into what would become Austin’s Enfield neighborhood. Six years later, Belmont “Belle” Graham, a . . . — — Map (db m162085) HM
On Harris Boulevard north of Windsor Road, on the right when traveling north.
Central Texas native Malcolm Reed followed his father into business and ultimately became a leading cotton exporter. He wed Margaret “Maggie” Badger of Marble Falls in 1898, and in 1908, they moved to Austin. In 1929, they moved into . . . — — Map (db m101450) HM
Near Windsor Road north of West 15th Street, on the right when traveling north.
This house was built in 1925 for Judge Robert Lynn Batts (1854-1935). A distinguished jurist, Batts served as Assistant Attorney General of Texas and the United States, Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Chairman of the University of . . . — — Map (db m26187) HM
On Kingsbury Street west of Parkway, on the right when traveling west.
Named for family of 1853-57 Texas Governor, Elisha Marshall Pease (1812-83), within whose early-day plantation this area was situated. Gov. and Mrs. Pease on May 20, 1875, gave 23-acre site here on Shoal Creek to City of Austin for use as a public . . . — — Map (db m181844) HM
On Green Lane at Woolridge Drive, on the right when traveling north on Green Lane.
Pemberton Castle began in the 1890s as a cylindrical water tower. It was converted into a small castle in the mid-1920s by Samuel (Budley) Fisher for use as the Pemberton Heights subdivision sales office. The castle was acquired in 1937 by Samuel . . . — — Map (db m201894) HM
Near West 38th Street west of Tonkawa Trail, on the right when traveling west.
Site of 1839 home and 1842 massacre of Gideon White. A daughter, Louisa, wed (1846) Edward Seiders, for whom oaks are named. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1967 — — Map (db m100088) HM
On Parkway south of West 24th Street, on the right when traveling south.
In August 1934, Edwin Brazelton Snead (1904 - 1921), a well-known Austin construction and development figure, built this Tudor Revival-style house. Snead, holding the demolition contract for the Old Main structure on the University of Texas . . . — — Map (db m167326) HM
On Wooldridge Drive north of Northwood Road, on the right when traveling north.
In 1891, Thomas F. Burns bought 3 ¾ acres of the Jones and Sedwick property along the west bank of Shoal Creek. Burns, a Scottish immigrant, married Arbanna J. Nelson in Travis County in 1876. Property records and lumber marked “Sutor & . . . — — Map (db m83096) HM
On Harris Boulevard north of Wathen Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
Born in Galveston to Fred W. and Eizabeth Catterall, Margaret Catterall wed Maine native Gordon E. Mills in 1933. The couple moved to Austin, where Mills joined his father-in-law’s company, Walker's Austex Chili, a leading producer of regional . . . — — Map (db m168116) HM
Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church
of Mount Salem purchased three acres here in
1882 for a sanctuary and a cemetery. The
building served as the central point for
religious, educational and social activities
for the Walnut Creek . . . — — Map (db m184142) HM
Near Winding Ridge Boulevard, 0.2 miles west of North Capital of Texas Highway (State Highway 360), on the right when traveling south.
Archeological investigations of the Bull Creek area show utilization by humans stretching back at least 9,000 years. The canyons of Bull Creek offered the criteria of favored campsites on the Edwards Plateau: shelter in or near pecan groves (pecan . . . — — Map (db m108842) HM
Near Winding Ridge Boulevard, 0.2 miles west of North Capital of Texas Highway (State Highway 360), on the right when traveling south.
Before electricity, flowing water was a prime source of energy to run mills for sawing lumber and grinding grains. The Mormons are credited with construction, in 1846, of one of Travis County's first mills on Bull Creek. That mill was created . . . — — Map (db m108843) HM
On North Capital of Texas Highway (State Highway 360) west of Spicewood Springs Road, on the right when traveling south.
Curving through the center of Texas from Hill County south and west to Uvalde County is the rugged escarpment-fault called Balcones. The abundance of natural resources associated with this geologic formation affected the pattern of colonization in . . . — — Map (db m71914) HM
Near Dessau Road south of East Howard Lane, on the right when traveling south.
The community of Dessau was founded in 1854 by German immigrants, including the Wieland, Nauert, Nehring, Grosskopf, Krueger, Goerlitz, and Hennig families. The pioneers worshiped in private homes until this sanctuary was built about 1876. Labor . . . — — Map (db m25872) HM
Near Shoal Creek Boulevard north of West 38th Street, on the right when traveling north.
This congregation was organized in 1876 by about 30 charter members led by noted businessman Henry Hirschfeld and newspaper publisher Phineas de Cordova. In 1877 Beth Israel purchased a lot at 11th and San Jacinto Streets where the first synagogue . . . — — Map (db m167323) HM
On Sinclair Avenue south of West 49th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Irish native Martin Moore and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (White), left their Austin residences and prosperous Pecan (6th) Street mercantile business and moved to a farm north of town about 1850. Their 521-acre farm, which included this property, was . . . — — Map (db m100082) HM
Near North Pleasant Valley Road north of Rosewood Avenue.
Built about 1863 at 807 east 11th Street; homestead of Henry Green Madison (1843-1912), policeman and farmer, his wife Louise, and their eight children. In 1886, Madison built a frame house enclosing the cabin, which remained hidden until a razing . . . — — Map (db m25672) HM
On Thompson Street just south of Rosewood Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
To accommodate an increasing African American population, the Austin Public School system (later the AISD) built E.H. Anderson High School in 1909, renaming it L.C. Anderson High School in 1938. The same year, the Austin city plan . . . — — Map (db m201898) HM
On Rosewood Avenue west of North Pleasant Valley Road, on the right when traveling west.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African American enclaves were spread throughout Austin, but the 1928 Austin city plan codified segregation of communities of color to the east side of the city by restricting utilities and services in . . . — — Map (db m164672) HM
On West Cesar Chavez Street (State Highway 343) east of West Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
This complex is an industrial and architectural landmark in Austin. Electric power arrived in the Texas capital in 1895, after the Colorado River was first dammed to generate electricity. The city of Austin has owned its own generation and . . . — — Map (db m29537) HM
Near West Cesar Chavez Street west of Nueces Street, on the right when traveling west.
Native Americans, settlers and cattle drovers crossed the river here where Shoal Creek's sand made the water shallow. During Republic days Vice President Mirabeau Lamar camped here, near the village of Waterloo while hunting buffalo. His . . . — — Map (db m27244) HM
On Circle S Road south of Dittmar Road East, on the left when traveling south.
According to local tradition, in the winter of 1859, 23-year-old John Davis joined a community wagon train headed for work in the pine forests of Bastrop County. Davis, sprayed by a skunk during the night, began running wildly through the camp. He . . . — — Map (db m69116) HM
On Circle S Road near Corral Lane, on the right when traveling south.
Tradition holds that a family passing through the area in 1912 buried a child, Maria de la Luz, at this site. In August of that year, A. Donley, A.C. Rodriguez and S. Galvan bought the land for use as a Mexican cemetery. In the 1940s, a fire set . . . — — Map (db m25797) HM
On Paisano Trail east of Brodie Lane, on the left when traveling east.
Thomas Kincheon, a former slave from Mississippi, established the rural community of Kincheonville in this area shortly after emancipation in 1865. Many independent communities were created in Texas by African Americans following the Civil War, . . . — — Map (db m166857) HM
Near North Bluff Drive north of William Cannon Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Onion Creek Lodge 220, A.F. & A.M. chartered, 1858. Met on this site in cabin later destroyed by Indians. This building completed, 1860.
First floor used by the Pleasant Hill school (oldest in continuous use in state) until 1935. Also used by . . . — — Map (db m26188) HM
Near South Congress Avenue at Sheraton Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
In 1947, C.J. Stark opened the original Skyline Club in North Austin. For the better part of a half a century this neon giant heralded the likes of Patsy Cline, Roger Miller, Elvis Presley, Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizzell, The Geezinslaws, and . . . — — Map (db m68814) HM
Near Bluff Springs Road south of East William Cannon Drive, on the left when traveling south. Reported missing.
Albert C. Horton (1798 - 1860).
A veteran of the Texas War for Independence, owned this property 1841 - 1852. The first man elected Lieutenant Governor after Texas joined the Union, he lived here while serving as Chief of State May 19-Nov. 13, . . . — — Map (db m193510) HM
In 1964, Austin native James M. White (1939-2021) opened a new dance hall and restaurant south of the city limits at a former lumberyard on South Lamar. It was designed in the style of a traditional honky tonk, and patrons danced to jukebox records . . . — — Map (db m220676) HM
Near Metropolis Drive, 0.4 miles west of U.S. 183, on the left when traveling west.
In honor of
Mr. Richard A. Overton
The oldest known living Veteran
in the United States
April 2017
Born May 11, 1906,
in Bastrop County, Texas
Served in the U.S. Army
from 1942 to 1945 - World War II
His life-long positive . . . — — Map (db m129025) HM WM
Near West 35th Street at Main Street, on the right when traveling west.
The original 85-acre tract (gift of Austin citizens in 1892) was the site of annual encampments for the Texas Volunteer Guard, an elite militia constituted in 1876. Because larger maneuver, parade, and drill areas were needed, the guardsmen worked . . . — — Map (db m25791) HM
On Enfield Road east of Hopi Trail, on the right when traveling east.
In 1924, local Lions Club members formed the Austin Municipal Golf and Amusement Association to open the first public golf course in the city. The association leased part of the Brackenridge Tract from the University of Texas, and by the fall of . . . — — Map (db m149741) HM
On Tanglewood Trail north of Dali Lane, on the right when traveling west.
Gustavus Johnson, a carpenter and contractor, built this house for his daughter, Jennie, when she married John K. Donnan in 1876. Located then near the Capitol, this enlargement of an older, smaller structure combined Victorian style with a . . . — — Map (db m149736) HM
On Bonnie Road just east of Rockmoor Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
Located in Tarrytown, this mission revival style house features limestone quarried from a nearby source and red, Spanish-style clay roof tiles. Built for James Martin Walsh (1882-1944), third son of local lime manufacturer and Irish immigrant . . . — — Map (db m149738) HM
Near West 35th Street west of West Bonnell Road, on the left when traveling west.
This Mediterranean style villa was built in 1916 for Henry H. and Clara Driscoll Sevier. Named Laguna Gloria for a nearby lagoon off the Colorado River, the stuccoed home features a decorative window that resembles the rose window at San Jose . . . — — Map (db m99511) HM
On Exposition Boulevard south of Northwood Road, on the right when traveling south.
Josephine (1873-1947) and Lilia (1869-1947) Casis were reared in Jamaica, where their European parents educated them in the classics, languages, and music, before they moved to Texas in 1890. Josephine earned a teaching degree and taught at . . . — — Map (db m25795) HM
On Sweetbrush Drive west of Rockmoor Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Banker John Milton Swisher (1819-1891) built this residence in 1853 in the 400 block of San Antonio St. Noted architect-builder Abner Cook designed the Greek Revival house. In the 1920s, Dr. and Mrs. Z.T. Scott found the building in deteriorated . . . — — Map (db m25681) HM
Near Pecos Street south of River Road, on the right when traveling south.
This kiln was built in 1871 by Scottish immigrant Peter C. Taylor (b. 1829). His patented kiln design permitted continuous firing, producing a superior lime that was used to make mortar for late 19th century Austin buildings and had a wide market . . . — — Map (db m69321) HM
Near Guadalupe Street south of West 42nd Street, on the right when traveling south.
While Texas was a frontier state and psychiatry a pioneer venture, the Texas Legislature in 1856 created this hospital for the mentally ill; in 1925, named Austin State Hospital.
Oldest Texas mental hospital.
Construction began in 1857. The . . . — — Map (db m25758) HM
On Whittis Avenue at West 27th Street, on the right when traveling north on Whittis Avenue.
Dating to 1899, this historic church is built of white Austin limestone quarried in Liberty Hill, and is complemented with a dark slate roof. It exemplifies the cruciform plan, with a long nave leading from the main entrance at the west to the . . . — — Map (db m201972) HM
On West 27th Street west of University Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
This edifice stands on the mid-1840s land grant of former Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar, and near the official residence of the second Bishop of the Diocese of Texas, the Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving (1849-1928). Aided by the . . . — — Map (db m25747) HM
On West 27th Street near Wichita Street, on the right when traveling west.
This seminary had its origins in the Austin School of Theology, begun in 1884 by the Rev. Dr. Richmond Kelley Smoot and the Rev. Dr. Robert Lewis Dabney to provide training for candidates for the Presbyterian ministry whom the founders hoped would . . . — — Map (db m158889) HM
On West 24th Street just south of West 24th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) was a true American patriot and a dynamic role model. Born and raised in Houston's Fifth Ward by her parents, Benjamin and Arlyne Jordan, she attended and excelled in public schools. In 1956, she graduated magna cum . . . — — Map (db m186707)
On Whitis Avenue at West 24th Street, on the right when traveling south on Whitis Avenue.
George W. Littlefield (1842-1920) came to Texas with his family in 1850. He served in the Civil War with Terry’s Texas Rangers, attaining the rank of Major. Following the war he became a cattleman and acquired ranches in New Mexico and the Texas . . . — — Map (db m26042) HM
Near Red River Street near Clyde Littlefield Drive.
This sculpture, weighing 18 tons, is an exact copy of the colossal head that was discovered at the Olmec site of San Lorenzo, Veracruz, Mexico. The original is a landmark work of art of the Olmec culture that flourished in southern Mexico 1500-400 . . . — — Map (db m71676) HM
On Trinity Street north of 24th Street East, on the left when traveling north.
Founded by Swedish Methodists, with leadership and guidance from the Rev. O. E. Olander, Texas Wesleyan College opened in 1912. Numerous academic courses were offered and the school sponsored athletic teams, a newspaper, and music and literary . . . — — Map (db m168163) HM
Near Red River Street, 0.1 miles north of Clyde Littlefield Drive.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and opened in the spring of 1971. The design featured the monumental library building clad in Roman travertine and an expansive plaza . . . — — Map (db m35834) HM
On University Avenue at Inner Campus Drive, on the right when traveling south on University Avenue.
Interfecti August 1, 1966
Thomas Aquinas Ashton
Dr. Robert H. Boyer
Thomas Frederick Eckman
Mark Jerome Gabour
Karen Joan Griffith
David H. Gunby
Thomas Ray Karr
Marguerite Gabour Lamport
Claudia Rutt
Roy Dell Schmidt
Paul . . . — — Map (db m133996)
Near Trinity Street south of East Cesar Chavez Street, on the right when traveling south.
First known use of barbed wire in Texas (1857), by John Grinninger, immigrant from Europe, worker in an early Austin iron foundry. Grinninger, who lived on Waller Creek (NE of here) grew fruit, vegetables and flowers. To protect garden, he ran . . . — — Map (db m25896) HM
On U.S. 290 west of William Cannon Drive, on the right when traveling west.
First settlers arrived in area in 1840s. The community founded here in 1856 was called Live Oak Springs; in 1865 it was renamed Shiloh. Later schools known as Live Oak and Oatmanville gave names temporarily to the settlement. It has been known as . . . — — Map (db m26185) HM
Near Deep Eddy Avenue south of Foster Avenue, in the median.
Swedish immigrant Charles Johnson built a large home for his family on 39 acres of land in this vicinity in the 1850s. In 1902 two of his children, Mary and Henry, opened Deep Eddy Resort. The Johnsons named the park for a deep hole in the . . . — — Map (db m167372) HM
On Veterans Drive west of Atlanta Street, on the right when traveling north.
Erected 1858 by Chas. Johnson, near the Wm. McGill Ford on the Colorado River. Built by fellow Swedes, of native stone from his own quarry and lime kiln.
Walls are 18 inches thick. A stone-paved breezeway joined the two wings of the building. . . . — — Map (db m25703) HM
Near Westminster Drive just north of Oakleaf Circle, on the right when traveling south.
Educated in the public schools of Houston and La Grange, Anne Webb Blanton began her teaching career in 1887 in the small Fayette County town of Pine Springs. In 1888 she moved to Austin, where she taught public school and attended the . . . — — Map (db m201891) HM
On Berkman Drive at East 51st Street, on the right when traveling north on Berkman Drive. Reported permanently removed.
Marking the spot where
Josiah Pugh Wilbarger
of Austin's Colony was stabbed
and scalped by the Indians in 1832
while locating lands for the Colonies.
Born in Bourbon Co. Ky. Sept. 10, 1801
Died in Bastrop Co. Tex. April 11, 1845 . . . — — Map (db m247243) HM
On Manor Road south of East 51st Street, on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
In community where scalping and dramatic rescue of Josiah Wilbarger occurred in 1833. By 1875 area had developed so much that a schoolhouse was built at this site. Original 30 x 40 – foot structure was set on 4.68 acres of land. A Mr. Goodnight . . . — — Map (db m174634) HM
On Heights Drive near South Capital of Texas Highway (Texas Highway 360), on the right when traveling west.
Charles Johnson was a native of Sweden who settled in Austin in 1854. In 1858 he built his main residence near Deep Eddy along the Colorado River, which presently is the American Legion. The Johnson Ranch, consisting of 124 acres, was procured in . . . — — Map (db m66440) HM
On South Lamar Boulevard (State Highway 343) south of Treadwell Street, on the right when traveling north.
Real estate developers Mary and Nannie Dawson built this house about 1900 as part of the South Heights expansion of Austin. The sisters were pioneer teachers in free public school system.
Mary (Molly) was principal of Fulmore School, but she . . . — — Map (db m29539) HM
Built here prior to the Civil War on land owned by Col. S.W. Goodrich (d. 1868), this house was located near a low-water crossing of the Colorado River. A planter, Goodrich owned a sawmill, grist mill, and cotton gin. Michael Paggi (d. 1911), a . . . — — Map (db m29538) HM
Near Evergreen Avenue just north of Mary Street NW, on the right when traveling north.
William Carroll "Cal" Roy (1851-1916) and Annie (Stanley) Roy (1851-1925) bought this Bouldin mill site in 1894 from Powhatan Bouldin, heir of James E. Bouldin (1796-1876), the original owner. It was converted into a home, and here the Roy’s . . . — — Map (db m26149) HM
Near Virginia Avenue west of Meghan Lane, on the right when traveling west.
On land granted by Mexico in 1835, just before Texas Revolution, this house was built in 1875. Owner Isaac Van Zandt Davis (1843-1897) worked in the General Land Office. Greek revival style home has 22” thick walls of stone quarried at Oak . . . — — Map (db m25825) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m29540) HM
On Staked Plains Blvd., on the right when traveling north.
Soon after Texas became a republic in 1836, the government divided land in this area for settlement. Ample timber, fresh water sources and wildlife attracted many to establish communities along Brushy Creek. The Legislature organized these . . . — — Map (db m173617) HM
This area was first settled in the 1840s by Henry Rhodes. He was soon joined by such pioneers as Elisha Prewitt, who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto, and Civil War veterans Elisha Rhodes, J. Bryon Jenkins, and William H. Thompson, whose home at . . . — — Map (db m239816) HM
After James O. Rice settled in the 1850s near a spring-fed pond, the area was called “Pond Springs”. By 1854 a log school building was erected near the pond (1 Mi. N) and also served for worship and a social center. Thomas S. Rutledge . . . — — Map (db m24934) HM
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