During the first half of the 20th century, San Marcos, like most communities across the United States, segregated its school facilities. Mexican-American children were first taught in a school building previously used by the community’s . . . — — Map (db m149929) HM
It might not look like one at first glance, but behind the cypress trees and steakhouse is one of the oldest dams in Texas. In 1849, General Edward Burleson constructed a "crib and rock" dam at the headwaters of the San Marcos River to power a saw . . . — — Map (db m198582) HM
This is the traditional starting point of the 260-mile Texas Water Safari known throughout the world as the ultimate test of endurance, strength and will. Thousands of men and women have run this race since 1963, following the San Marcos and . . . — — Map (db m208302) HM
Constructed as the first Hays County Jail in 1873, this small brick structure was later an annex for black prisoners. Known locally as the Calaboose, it became a neighborhood recreation center after the city of San Marcos acquired it in 1885. In the . . . — — Map (db m76897) HM
Starting in 1866 the broad valley behind this marker was the scene of cattle drives from the south Texas brush country to Kansas railheads, where livestock was then shipped to eastern markets. These old routes where always imprecise because, as one . . . — — Map (db m69113) HM
The Home
Charles Stephen Cock purchased this property on the banks of the San Marcos River in 1867 and promptly built his modest home. The limestone Greek Revival style home has two foot thick walls and is the oldest remaining residential . . . — — Map (db m195666) HM
When Hays County originated in 1848, its one public building was a log church-schoolhouse that had to serve as the courthouse, along with its other uses.
Although the San Marcos townsite, platted in 1851, contained a court square donated to the . . . — — Map (db m111158) HM
The Cabin
Dr. Eli Merriman's one-pen, hand-hewn log cabin home was built in 1846 on Fort Street (now Hopkins) about a block from the courthouse square (where the Goodyear building is currently located). At the time, it was the second home in . . . — — Map (db m195614) HM
Landmarks Award 1995 C.M. Waldrip, Jr. & Martha W. Powell The Hofheinz Confectionary 1888 Presented by the Heritage Association of San Marcos> — — Map (db m208496) HM
About 1914 the Newton brothers Jess, Willis, Doc, and Joe were getting tired of facing mules' rumps as they plowed their daddy's Callahan County farm. So they drifted into train and bankrobbery in a four-year career that took them throughout the . . . — — Map (db m208330) HM
This site near the source of the San Marcos River was part of the Thomas J. Chambers grant of 1834. The tract was sold in 1848 to Gen. Edward Burleson (1798-1851), military and political leader in early Texas, who built a cabin nearby. A later . . . — — Map (db m149827) HM
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, San Marcos firemen were summoned to a blaze by the clanging sound of a huge triangle which hung from a tree limb at the right of this entrance to the Hays County Courthouse.
The great (55 pound) . . . — — Map (db m111155) HM
(See "The Telephone Story, Number One" directly across the Square on Guadalupe Street.)
San Marcos once had the remarkable experience of two telephone companies from about 1908 to 1914. The second company was Southwestern Telegraph and . . . — — Map (db m208417) HM
Dr. William Alexander Thompson (1803-1879) made an agreement with neighbors in 1850 to use the San Marcos River for irrigation and as a source of energy. He and his sons William A. and James used slave labor to build a gristmill, sawmill and cotton . . . — — Map (db m208295) HM
William A. Thompson brought his family and slaves to Texas from Louisiana in 1850. They established plantations in Caldwell and Hays counties. With slave labor, the family built a mill on the San Marcos River near this site. Construction and . . . — — Map (db m149931) HM
The son of former slaves Joe and Elizabeth Cephas, Ulysses Cephas was born in San Marcos. He was trained at an early age to carry on the blacksmithing trade of his father. Known as "Boots" to his friends and family, Cephas eventually owned his own . . . — — Map (db m149882) HM
Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church traces its history to 1875, and is believed to be the oldest African American congregation in San Marcos. The first church building was erected on this site in 1879, and later was replaced by a . . . — — Map (db m149884) HM
In Balcones Fault, created by prehistoric earth shift. Said to have been campsite of Indians and Spaniards, especially priests who planted anaqua trees in area. By legend, robber gangs in 1820s cached Camino Real booty here.
Discovered 1893 for . . . — — Map (db m53525) HM
Alexander Gates Thomas (1877-1944), an English professor and authority on Texas folklore, and Lillian Johnson (1885-1966), an art professor, met as educators at Southwest Texas Normal School. Married late in life, the two were inspired on their . . . — — Map (db m223205) HM
An architectural landmark in San Marcos, this church building exhibits classic elements of the Gothic Revival style in its pointed arch Gothic windows, with Queen Anne influences in the fishscale shingling and octagonal towers. Dating to at least . . . — — Map (db m234887) HM
In 1842, Eliza Pitts (1832-1923) and her parents came to Texas from Georgia. She was a charter member of First Methodist Church in San Marcos and served as an active church leader. She married James Lafayette Malone in 1850, and they had sixteen . . . — — Map (db m223195) HM
A farmer from Illinois, George H. Talmadge (1840-1911) served in the Union Army during the Civil War. In 1888 he moved to San Marcos with his wife Lydia (1851-1900) and their children, including an adopted daughter orphaned by the Chicago fire. . . . — — Map (db m223201) HM
Among the first settlers in the San Marcos area, George Thomas McGehee (1836-1926) moved here with his parents, Minerva (Hunt) and Thomas Gilmer McGehee, in 1846. He fought in the Civil War with Terry's Texas Rangers and served 3 terms in the State . . . — — Map (db m223189) HM
William Green built this house about 1889 and sold it to rancher Samuel McGehee Heard (d. 1909). At the time, the homesite included enough surrounding land to graze livestock. Members of the Heard family lived here until 1944, when Robert Lee Baker . . . — — Map (db m223185) HM
John Howard Barbee was born in Stringtown, a stretch of farms outside San Marcos, in 1854. Barbee was a businessman, rancher, builder, developer and was a founder in the Farmers Union Gin Co. His wife, Abbie, was an accomplished singer. In 1906, . . . — — Map (db m223209) HM
This house was built in 1891-92 for James L. and Eliza Malone. The Malones, parents of 16 children, were among the early pioneer families in the Stringtown area east of San Marcos. the house was sold out of the Malone family in 1906 following James' . . . — — Map (db m223197) HM
Built in 1889 by John Francis McGehee (1838-1922), a veteran of Hood's Brigade in Civil War. The house, constructed of pine hauled from Bastrop, cypress siding, and handmade brick, is of 19th century Eastlake architectural style. Since McGehee sold . . . — — Map (db m223192) HM
A native of Tennessee, Joseph W. Earnest (1844-1920) migrated to Hays County with his parents in 1854. He was a veteran of the Texas Rangers and Confederate Army. A merchant and cattleman, Earnest married Cevilia Cock (1850-1931) in 1870. He hired . . . — — Map (db m223054) HM
This Victorian residence with its unusual central chimney was erected in 1886 for the growing family of Sam R. Kone, Jr. (1855-1941), a successful merchant, active Mason, and member of the San Marcos City Council, 1914-15. His wife Laura (Smith) . . . — — Map (db m223187) HM
Built in 1878, this residence was purchased in 1882 by Georgia native O.T. Brown (1836-1916) and his wife Elizabeth (Belvin) (b. 1854), the daughter of a prominent local Methodist minister and educator, the Rev. R.H. Belvin. Brown, a Civil War . . . — — Map (db m223052) HM
Built in 1868 by Peter C. Ragsdale (1810-1882), veteran of the Army of the Republic of Texas. After his death, his wife, Elmira, operated a school for girls until the house sold in 1891 to William T. (Uncle Billy) Jackman (1851-1939), trail driver . . . — — Map (db m223198) HM
A portion of this structure was built about 1859 as one of the first schools in San Marcos. The Rev. Robert H. Belvin, president (1870-75) of Coronal Institute, a Methodist school, converted it into a home for his family in 1875. the Rev. J.W. Vest, . . . — — Map (db m223049) HM
Ignatius Bramwell Rylander, a distinguished
agriculturalist from Alabama, built this
imposing residence in 1912-13. Noted architect
Roy L. Thomas designed the home in the
colonial revival style with classical details
and a symmetrical frame . . . — — Map (db m223207) HM
Built on historic San Antonio Street (originally the stagecoach road to San Antonio) by S. H. and Annie Sanders about 1913, this house was subsequently purchased by Albert N. and Rosa Grosgebauer in 1919. Lyndon B. Johnson was frequently a dinner . . . — — Map (db m223199) HM
Kings Highway Camino Real Old San Antonio Road
Marked by The Daughters of The American Revolution and The State of Texas A.D. 1918 — — Map (db m222740) HM
Groundwater flowing through a complex system of fractures within the Trinity Aquifer emerges as an artesian spring known as Jacob's Well. The once-fountaining water, at a near-constant temperature of 68 degrees, provides the majority of the flow to . . . — — Map (db m194052) HM
Since 1883, Jacobs Well (Jacob's Well) Cemetery has served as a final resting place for area residents. In 1876, three schools were organized nearby, including one for the Jacob's Well community, named for a natural spring in Cypress Creek. The . . . — — Map (db m194036) HM
Native Americans
There were three prominent Indian tribes that roamed the area surrounding Jacob's Well: the Tonkawa, the Jumano and later the Comanche. Early settlers eventually pushed out the Comanche. These groups were semi-nomadic, and as . . . — — Map (db m194043) HM
Wimberley builder James Calvin Lane (1902 1976) built this home in 1935 adjacent to a café operated by his wife, Rebecca (Cobb). Lane later built a two-story home and a larger café in the same style on nearby property on the square. Rebecca operated . . . — — Map (db m198766) HM
Constructed about 1892 for Charles and Susannah Cock, this house was purchased by John R. and Martha Dobie in 1899. A native of Scotland, Dobie (1849-1924) was a farmer, rancher, and Hays County commissioner in 1897-98. A fine example of . . . — — Map (db m155406) HM
This land was first patented to Amasa Turner in 1847. Settlers erected a log cabin here which served as a church and school facility. Worship services were conducted by circuit riders. In 1876 Melissa Wimberley, young daughter of Pleasant . . . — — Map (db m155405) HM
In 1848 William C. Winters (1809-64), a veteran of San Jacinto, came to this valley and built a grist mill and sawmill on Cypress Creek. A settlement called Winters Mill soon emerged from the wilderness. After a flood destroyed the millhouse about . . . — — Map (db m194035) HM
William Carvin Winters (1809-1864) and his wife Lavinia Winters (1805-1891) came to Texas from Tennessee in 1834, along with other members of his family. William and his brothers, James Washington and John Frelan, fought in the Battle of San . . . — — Map (db m198763) HM
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