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Texas 1936 Centennial Markers and Monuments Historical Markers
In 1935/1936 the State of Texas Legislature created a commission to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Texas independence from Mexico. Part of this consisted of placing about 1,100 statues, and granite and bronze markers and monuments around Texas. See more at the Texas Historical Commission website 1936 Texas Centennial Markers.
Visited in 1840 by Colonel Wm. G. Cooke's preliminary exploration for a route between Austin and Red River. A community also called Cedar Springs, established in this vicinity in 1843 by Dr. John Cole, rivalled Dallas in an election in 1848 for . . . — — Map (db m148843) HM
Site of the First Agency, January, 1845, of the Texian Land and Emigration Company. Generally known as "Peters' Colony" in honor of William S. Peters who, under a colonization contract secured in 1841 from the Republic of Texas, introduced more . . . — — Map (db m148647) HM
Established by Joseph H. Sherrard, William L. Killem, Pleasant Taylor and John M. Crockett in 1862 to manufacture pistols for the State of Texas. — — Map (db m152507) HM
Created February 1, 1858
Recreated August 21, 1876
from Bexar Territory
Organized February 13, 1905
Named in honor of
Nicholas Mosby Dawson
1808-1842
Who fought at the Battle of
San Jacinto and fell at
Dawson's . . . — — Map (db m110193) HM
Formed from Young and Bexar
Territories
Created August 21, 1876
Organized October 3, 1890
Named in honor of
Erastus “Deaf” Smith
1787-1837
Came to Texas in 1821
Rendered valuable service as a scout and
spy during . . . — — Map (db m56022) HM
Formed from Lamar and Hopkins
Counties
Created July 29, 1870
Organized October 6, 1870
The name describes its position
and triangular shape
Cooper, the county seat — — Map (db m119291) HM
Created April 11, 1846
from Fannin County
Organized July 13, 1846
with Denton as county seat
Both town and county are
named in honor of
John B. Denton
1807-1841
Pioneer preacher, lawyer
and Indian fighter
First county seat . . . — — Map (db m121786) HM
Born in Tennessee July 26, 1806, came to Texas in January, 1836, as a Methodist circuit rider. Killed in the Village Creek Indian fight May 24, 1841 in what is now Tarrant County. Named for Gen. Edward H. Tarrant who commanded the volunteers. Denton . . . — — Map (db m121788) HM
Marking a trail in a pathless wilderness, pressing forward with unswerving courage, she met each untried situation with a resourcefulness equal to the need. With a glad heart she brought to her frontier family her homeland's cultural heritage. With . . . — — Map (db m262465) HM
De Witt County
Included in the colonial grant in 1825 to Green De Witt, Texas empesario ▲ Settled until 1840 largely by Anglo Americans ▲ Created a county of the state of Texas March 24, 1846, its area being taken from Gonzales, . . . — — Map (db m269140) HM
Created March 24, 1846
from Gonzales, Victoria
and Goliad counties;
Organized July 13, 1846,
with Cuero as the county seat
Named in honor of
Green De Witt
A Texas Empresario
Born in Kentucky September 16, 1797
Died in . . . — — Map (db m131927) HM
Privates Gregg, William Max, W. H. Kilpatrick and other soldiers who met death in this region while serving under General R. S. MacKenzie, Fourth U.S. Cavalry, 1871-1872 and 1874-1875. With no hope of honor if victorious; no dream of mercy if they . . . — — Map (db m104773) HM WM
Here behind extensive breastworks Major Thomas M. Anderson, Tenth U.S. Infantry, maintained a supply camp for the Cavalry under General Ranald S. Mackenzie, Fourth U.S. Cavalry, who in 1874-1875 forced the Indians of the region onto reservations and . . . — — Map (db m104771) HM
In this first cemetery of Donley County, sixteen rods west lie the first dead of Old Clarendon. Here white civilization sank its roots in sadness and from the graves in this sacred acre strong pioneer spirits turned to face the future with greater . . . — — Map (db m151697) HM
Formed from Young and Bexar
territories
Created • Organized
August 21, 1876 • March 22, 1882
Named in honor of
Stockton P. Donley
1821 – 1871
a Confederate officer
elected to the Texas Supreme
Bench in 1866 . . . — — Map (db m96829) HM
The J.H. McCleskey No. 1 Discovery Well of the Ranger Pool was drilled by Warren Wagner under the supervision of W.K. Gordon of the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, July 2 - October 17, 1917. Initial production was three million feet of gas. . . . — — Map (db m98133) HM
Created February 26, 1887
from Tom Green County
Organized January 15, 1891
Named in honor of
Matthew Duncan Ector
1822-1879
Member of the Texas Legislature
A Confederate Officer and
outstanding jurist
Odessa, The County . . . — — Map (db m86704) HM
The regal highway extending between his Catholic majesty's far flung kingdoms of New Spain, from Mexico City to the Kingdom of New Mexico, passed here. From 1581 onward it was the route followed by conqueror, padre, merchant, adventurer and settler. . . . — — Map (db m239454) HM
This block was the site of the stage station of the Southern Overland Mail line which connected St. Louis and San Francisco with a semi-weekly stage and mail service, 1858-1861. — — Map (db m60719) HM
Established September 14, 1849 by Brevet Major Jefferson Van Horne with 4 companies of the Third United States Infantry and known as post El Paso - vacated in 1851 - re-garrisoned in 1854 and named Fort Bliss in honor of Brevet Major William Wallace . . . — — Map (db m269137) HM
Established by Don Antonio de Otermín and Father Fray Francisco Ayeta, O.F.M. in 1682 • Maintained by Franciscan missionaries for the civilizing and christianizing of the Zuma Indians — — Map (db m269138) HM
Approximate site of
the Mission and Pueblo of
San Antonio
de Senecú
Established by Don Antonio de Otermín and Father Fray Francisco Ayeta. O.F.M. in 1682 - Maintained by Franciscan missionaries for the civilizing and Christianizing of the . . . — — Map (db m37951) HM
On May 4, 1598, Don Juan de Oñate, Adelantado and Capitain-General, Governor of New Mexico, first named El Paso del Rio del Norte.
Through this old pass, the lowest snow-free feasible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Rocky . . . — — Map (db m24743) HM
Resentment over private control of the salt lakes in the region, often called Guadalupe Lakes, in 1877 led to the El Paso Salt War which entailed the loss of many lives and much property. — — Map (db m118294) HM
Site of the Presidio de Nuestra Señora Del Pilár y Glorioso Señor San José established by Don Domingo Jironza Petríz de Cruzate in 1683 near Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in present Ciudad Juárez, México. Located on this site in 1773 and . . . — — Map (db m118293) HM
Site of the mission and pueblo of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Pueblo de Socorro established by Don Antonio de Otermín and Father Fray Francisco Ayeta, O.F.M. in 1683. Maintained by Franciscan missionaries for the civilizing and . . . — — Map (db m118295) HM
Born in Kentucky, February 15, 1795 • Came to Texas in 1822 with Austin's first colony • Died July 2, 1874 His wife Elizabeth Smith Rankin Born January 30, 1802 Died June 1, 1882 — — Map (db m164753) HM
Named in honor of
Thomas Jefferson Chambers
(1802-1865)
to whom the first land grant within
present Ellis County was made in 1834
by the Mexican government
Also known as Howe's Settlement
in honor of William R. Howe,
first settler in . . . — — Map (db m117286) HM
3 miles northeast
from here was buried
General Edward
H. Tarrant
Veteran of the War of 1812, member
of the Texas Congress and a
courageous Indian fighter • Born
in North Carolina, 1796 • Died in
Parker County, Texas, August . . . — — Map (db m117285) HM
A soldier in the Army of Texas
in 1836 • Born in Tennessee, Feb-
ruary 2, 1804; died October 15, 1891
His wife
Mary Hardeman
Born in Tennessee, February
12, 1812 • Died February 19, 1857 — — Map (db m117284) HM
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 — — Map (db m117283) HM
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 — — Map (db m117282) HM
By birth and education, a Virginian;
through residence, 1813-1825, an Alabaman jurist
In that year, Texas claimed him
—
As president of the Constitutional Convention in 1836
and as a member of the Congress of the young republic,
he . . . — — Map (db m269122) HM
Protector of the Texas frontier. Hero of San Jacinto. Major in the Confederate Army. Member of the Texas Congress and Legislature. Born in Vienna, Austria January 1, 1813. Died at Waco, Texas May 15, 1891. Erath County was named in his honor. . . . — — Map (db m117456) HM
Created Jan. 28, 1850, from Limestone and Milam counties. Organized Aug. 5, 1850. Named for falls on the Brazos River which flow through the center of the county.
White colonization in the area pre-dates the Texas Revolution, but colonists fled . . . — — Map (db m208477) HM
400 yards northeast is the site of the home of George Morgan. Indians attacking the house on the night of Jan. 1, 1839 killed George Morgan, Mrs. George Morgan, Mrs. Jackson Morgan, Miss Adeline Marlin. — — Map (db m268544) HM
At this site, near the pioneer home of George Morgan, a battle took place, January 16, 1839, between settlers in this region and Indians under Chief José María in which the colonists were defeated.
A treaty with these Indians made soon after . . . — — Map (db m84671) HM
This area was first settled by Anglo - Americans who traveled up the Red River by steamboat in 1836. Fannin County was created in 1837, organized 1838, and named for James W. Fannin (1805-36), who was massacred with his soldiers at Goliad (March 27, . . . — — Map (db m96688) HM
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Born February 20, 1807 in South Carolina • Studied at South Carolina College 1825-1827
• On the staff of the Governor of South Carolina at the time of the Nullification Controversy 1832 to 1833 • Practiced law at Pendleton, . . . — — Map (db m128658) HM WM
Stage station on the Old San Felipe Trail founded by James J. Ross. John Crier, James Cummins - members of Austin's first colony • nearby resided William J. Russell, participant of the Battle of Velasco • Jerome B. Alexander, Fedelie S. . . . — — Map (db m259528) HM
in Texas was established at Hostyn when in November, 1856, the families of Josef Janda, Valintin Kolibal, Frantisek Koza arrived here from Czechoslovakia and in December, 1856, arrived here Alois Klimicek, Benjamin Klimicek adn Frantisek Marak. — — Map (db m71598) HM
Formed from Colorado and Bastrop Counties
Created December 14, 1837
Organized January 1, 1838
Named in Honor of
Marquis de la Fayette
1757-1834
Nobleman and Republican Friend of Washington and of the United States County Seat, La . . . — — Map (db m183276) HM
Built about 1828 - used as a place of defense against the Indians and known as Moore's Fort in honor of its builder and owner, John Henry Moore, 1800-1880, noted Indian fighter and commander of the Texans at the Battle of Gonzales, October 2, 1835 - . . . — — Map (db m53228) HM
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First ferry in present-day Fayette County. Established about 1824 at the crossing of the La Bahia Road by Jesse Burnam. After the Army of the Republic of Texas crossed on March 19, 1836, the ferry was destroyed by order of General . . . — — Map (db m53220) HM
On the Old San Felipe Trail, in memory of John C. Robison, participant of the Battle of Velasco; Joel W. Robison, McHenry Winburn, Isaac Lafayette Hill, Spencer Burton Townsend, Stephen Townsend, veterans of San Jacinto; J.T. Townsend, John . . . — — Map (db m183314) HM
First institution of higher education in Texas. Recommended in 1837 by Martin Ruter, D.D. Chartered as a Methodist School in 1840. Granted four leagues of land by the Republic of Texas. After educating more than 8oo students it merged in 1856 . . . — — Map (db m239483) HM
Used by colonists of this vicinity as a protection against Indian attacks 1828-1842 fortified residence of Zadock Woods veteran of the War of 1812 One of the old "Three Hundred" of Austin's colonists Oldest man killed in the "Dawson Massacre" . . . — — Map (db m79696) HM
Site of old Indian trail from Mexico to settlements on Texas frontier. In this region in 1856, Colonel Robert E. Lee, then commanding the famed U.S. Second Cavalry (and later General-in-Chief of the Confederate Army), campaigned against the Indians. . . . — — Map (db m127438) HM
Established by the Baker brothers in 1877; bought in 1880 for Mrs. Cornelia Adair by Charles Goodnight. Together with the Palo Duro ranches it embraced more than one million acres acquired by Goodnight in 1887, later broken into smaller tracts. — — Map (db m291274) HM
Formed from Hardeman, King
Cottle, and Know Counties
Created March 3, 1891
Organized April 27, 1891
Named in Honor of
Robert L. Foard
1831 - 1898
A Confederate Officer
Prominent Lawyer of Columbus
Texas
. . . — — Map (db m81442) HM
After being captured by Comanche Indians on May 19, 1836, in what is now Limestone County, Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured here by Texas Rangers under Captain L.S. Ross on December 18, 1860 — — Map (db m170422) HM
In 1860 at the Battle of Pease River, Indian captive Cynthia Ann Parker and her daughter, Prairie Flower, were rescued by Texas Rangers under Capt. L.S. Ross (later Governor of Texas). Cynthia Ann, most celebrated of all Comanche captives, had . . . — — Map (db m170428) HM
First known as Pease · Renamed in honor of Margaret Wesley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley · First Anglo-American child born in Hardeman County · First county seat of Hardeman County, 1884 - 1890 — — Map (db m170429) HM
A veteran of San Jacinto
Born in Arkansas
May 29, 1814
Died in 1866
His wife
Sallie Pentecost Beard
Born in June, 1818
Died in 1857 — — Map (db m225902) HM
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar • The Father of Education in Texas • Born in Georgia August 16, 1798 • Founded the Columbus Enquirer • Came to Texas in 1836 • He commanded the cavalry at the Battle of San Jacinto • Served successively as Secretary of War, . . . — — Map (db m126864) HM
Built in November 1821 by
William Little, William
Smithers, Charles Beard,
Joseph Polly, and Henry
Holster. - Its name was
given to the county when
created in 1837. — — Map (db m126486) HM
Where a part of the Mexican Army under command of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna crossed the Brazos on April 14, 1836 en route to an engagement with the Texans • This occurred one week later at San Jacinto — — Map (db m158527) HM
Scout under Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, 1813 Served under Gen. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812 Alcalde, San Felipe de Austin Delegate to the Conventions of Texas, 1832-33 Member of the Consultation, 1835 Captain of A Company in the Army of Texas . . . — — Map (db m212056) HM
Alcalde, Municipality of Austin, 1827 and 1829
• President, Ayuntamiento of San Felipe, 1833
Member of the Consultation, 1835 • Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence — — Map (db m225920) HM
Formed from Titus County
Created March 8, 1875
Organized April 30, 1875
Named in honor of
Benjamin C. Franklin
1805 – 1873
Hero of San Jacinto
District Judge of the
Republic of Texas.
Member of the Legislature . . . — — Map (db m119672) HM
Erected in 1858 by the Freestone School Association • Opened in 1859 with Dr. Henry Lee graves as president • Chartered February 8, 1860 — — Map (db m271684) HM
Formed from Limestone County
Created September 6, 1850
Organized January 6, 1851
So named from the nature of
its stone
County Seat, Fairfield
Formerly known as Mound Prairie — — Map (db m121878) HM
Known as Big Foot Wallace • Defender of Texas and Texans • As Soldier Ranger and Mail Rider, He Protected the Advancing Frontier • Died January 7, 1899 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 — — Map (db m162717) HM
Lying in one of the first areas in Texas to be explored by the Spanish, in 1690, Frio County was created in 1858 and organized in 1871. Frio City, laid out 1871, was the first county seat, but surrendered the title to Pearsall, on the . . . — — Map (db m239489) HM
Created August 21, 1876
Organized October 24, 1905
Named for James Gaines
Born in Virginia in 1779
Established a ferry across
the Sabine River in 1819
A signer of the
Declaration of Independence
Member of the Congress
of . . . — — Map (db m61422) HM
Born in Virginia. Captain of a
company at San Jacinto, 1836 and
in command of the Mier Expedition,
1842. Died in Galveston in 1845. — — Map (db m127598) HM
Dedicated to the
First Navy of the Republic of Texas
Established by Governor Henry Smith
November 25th, 1835
The Fleet
Brutus • Independence
Liberty • Invincible
Commemorating the heroism of its
personnel . . . — — Map (db m65031) HM WM
Site of the home 1837-1851, of Gail Borden, Jr. pioneer surveyor, newspaper editor and inventor of a process for condensing milk, which he discovered while living here in 1840. Born November 9, 1801. Died September 2, 1874. — — Map (db m239912) HM
Born in Massachusetts July 26, 1805. Came to Texas February 1836 as captain of a company of volunteers he had recruited in Kentucky and Ohio. Commanded the second regiment of volunteers at San Jacinto. First to sound the immortal war cry opening . . . — — Map (db m309351) HM WM
Who served in the
Army of Texas, 1836
and was a member
of the Mier Expedition, 1842
Born in New York
June 23, 1815
Died July 2, 1870 — — Map (db m127602) HM
Fort and settlement established here in 1817 by the freebooter Jean Lafitte who maintained headquarters here while preying on shipping in the Gulf of Mexico. The Battle of the Three Trees was fought here between Lafitte's men and Karankawa . . . — — Map (db m87726) HM
A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Founder of the city of Galveston. Member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas. — — Map (db m150235) HM
One of the "Old Three Hundred" of Austin's colonies Surveyed the town of Galveston Editor and one of the founders in 1835 of the Telegraph and Texas Register Born in Norwich, New York, January 28, 1804 Died in Galveston, Texas March 17, . . . — — Map (db m174392) HM
Served in the Texas Army, 1836.
Purchased the Galveston News
1843. Born in New Haven, N. Y.
January 4, 1820; Died June 12, 1873.
His wife
Catherine Crosby
French Cherry
Born in Sligo, Ireland, February
22, 1826; Died . . . — — Map (db m127587) HM
Formed from
Young and Bexar Territories
Created • Organized
August 21, 1876 • June 15, 1907
Named in honor of
The Garza family
natives of the Canary Islands
Pioneer settlers of San Antonio
in 1731
A cattle raising county . . . — — Map (db m110757) HM
Established in 1849 by Doss brothers. Operated 1859-1878 by William F. Lange; 1878-1888 by Julius Lange. Its products were famed throughout the region. One of the last of the old burr mills in Texas; one of few in as perfect a state of preservation. . . . — — Map (db m91745) HM
From its summit, in the fall of 1841, Captain John C. Hays, while surrounded by Comanche Indians who cut him off from his ranging company, repulsed the whole band and inflicted upon them such heavy losses that they fled. — — Map (db m220772) HM
The trails of roving Indians
crossed these hills
Settled by German pioneers
in 1846
A group of Mormons settled
at Zodiac in 1847.
Created February 23, 1848
Organized June 5, 1848
Named for Richard Addison Gillespie
A Texan . . . — — Map (db m94337) HM
Commissioner-General of the Society for
the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas
who became a citizen of the Republic of Texas
under the name of John O. Meusebach.
Founder of Fredericksburg on May 8, 1846.
On March 1-2, 1847, he . . . — — Map (db m35893) HM
Established by the United States Army
December 5, 1848
as a protection to travelers and
settlers against Indian attack.
Named in honor of Major Martin Scott,
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel,
5th United States Infantry,
killed at Molino . . . — — Map (db m126961) HM
First known to Spanish settlers as Nuestra Senora de Loreto, later called La Bahia del Espritu Santo.
Established as a mission in 1749. Became a strategic fort under Spanish, Mexican, Texas occupancy, 1810-1821, 1835-1836. Name changed to Goliad . . . — — Map (db m34291) HM
Established in 1754
for the Cujane Nation.
Here faithful Franciscan
missionaries attempted to
Christianize and civilize
the Indians of the region
until 1794. — — Map (db m34284) HM
First established at the site of La Salle's Fort on Garcitas Creek, Victoria County, among the Coco, Cujanes, Karankawa and other Indian tribes in 1722. Moved to Mission Valley, Victoria County, on the Guadalupe River among the Jaranames and . . . — — Map (db m68955) HM
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