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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Walker County, Texas
Adjacent to Walker County, Texas
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| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | Born in Buckingham County, Va.; came to Texas, 1847. Settled in Huntsville; entered law practice with Henderson Yoakum. Married Amanda Smith, 1849. Served in the 8th State Legislature, 1859-61; the Confederate army, 1862; and the Congress of . . . — — Map (db m129702) HM |
| | The Presbyterian Church established Austin College in Huntsville in 1849 and erected this structure in 1851-52. Austin College moved to Sherman in 1876, and in 1879 this building was deeded to the state for use by the newly-established Sam Houston . . . — — Map (db m66311) HM |
| On State Highway 19 at Knox Circle, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 19. |
| | Camp Huntsville, completed here in 1942, was one of the first prisoner of war (POW) camps built in the U.S. during World War II. Designed to house 3,000 POWs, it had more than 400 buildings, as well as eight branch camps. The first POWs, part of . . . — — Map (db m49725) HM |
| Near Avenue F / Martin Luther King Drive near 9th Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Shaver received a bachelor’s degree from Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1923. He served n the Texas Legislature and as President of the Texas State Teachers Association, helping to create the State's Teacher-Retirement System. Shaver received . . . — — Map (db m66317) HM |
| On 12th Street at University Avenue, on the right when traveling west on 12th Street. |
| | This building was completed in 1899 and was used until the courthouse and the third floor were destroyed by fire early on the morning of December 24th 1968. No records were lost in the fire and later that day all the county offices were moved to an . . . — — Map (db m72593) HM |
| Near Avenue F / Martin Luther King Drive near 9th Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Elliott Bowers entered Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1937 and completed his bachelor’s and master's degrees in Music by 1942. He earned a doctorate in Educational Administration at the University of Houston in 1959. After military service in . . . — — Map (db m66316) HM |
| On 19th Street west of Avenue R, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Organized by the Presbytery of the Brazos in June 1848, the First Presbyterian Church of Huntsville began with one elder and ten members. Early worship services were held in the county courthouse, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and the chapel . . . — — Map (db m111152) HM |
| On Sam Houston Avenue north of 11th Street (U.S. 190), on the left when traveling north. |
| | Before 1842 Methodists in Huntsville were probably served by itinerant preachers on the Montgomery County circuit. The Texas Methodist Conference appointed The Rev. Henderson B. Palmer as first pastor of the Huntsville church in that year. Records . . . — — Map (db m129556) HM |
| On 12th Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | One of 25 lodges started during the Republic of Texas, Forrest Lodge No. 19, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was chartered on Jan. 11, 1844. It is the eighth oldest lodge in Texas. Among its early members were Sam Houston and Texas historian . . . — — Map (db m111850) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | A native of Pennsylvania, John Slater Besser was a Brigadier General, legislator, and judge in Missouri before moving his family to Texas in 1842. While living in Montgomery and Walker counties, Besser held a number of public offices before and . . . — — Map (db m129578) HM |
| Near Avenue F / Martin Luther King Drive near 9ths Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | A native Texan, Lowman saw World War I military service before attaining a bachelor's degree at Southwest State Teachers College in 1923, a master's degree at the University of Texas, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Chicago . . . — — Map (db m66319) HM |
| Near Avenue F / Martin Luther King Drive near 9th Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Estill was valedictorian of the Sam Houston Normal Institute's first senior class in 1880 and spent 55 years on campus as student, faculty member, and president. He authored early United States history texts for public-school students in southern . . . — — Map (db m66318) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | A graduate of the United States Military Academy (1832), Henderson Yoakum saw duty on frontiers and in the Mexican War. He practiced law and served in the Senate in his native Tennessee, moving to Texas in 1845. In Huntsville he became a civic . . . — — Map (db m129623) HM |
| On University Avenue at 12th Street, on the left when traveling north on University Avenue. |
| | Built in 1880 as lodge hall. First floor soon became a dry goods and grocery store, and second was made into a fine theater by owner, John Henry (1828-97). Here traveling troupes played Shakespeare and dramas of the times. Famous magician Hermann . . . — — Map (db m29241) HM |
| Near 9th Street at Avenue H. |
| | A large number of sunken, unmarked graves were revealed in 2004 when this area was cleared of heavy underbrush by a carefully selected and supervised crew averaging ten offenders from the Huntsville "Walls" unit. These men were permitted by the . . . — — Map (db m158407) HM |
| On 12th Street at Avenue I, on the left when traveling west on 12th Street. |
| | The Republic of Texas Congress passed a law to establish a prison system in 1842, but it wasn't until 1848, after a new law passed the state legislature, that steps were taken to achieve the goal. Huntsville was selected as the site for the state . . . — — Map (db m155935) HM |
| Near 9th Street at Avenue I, on the right when traveling west. |
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James Addison Baker was born to Jane Saxton and Elijah Adam Baker on March 3, 1821 near Huntsville, Alabama. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and wed Caroline Hightower in 1849. She died in 1852, and he moved that year to join her family . . . — — Map (db m111088) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | In 1822 Jesse Parker moved to the Mexican state of Texas. A veteran of the War of 1812, he represented the Sabine District at the Convention of 1832 in San Felipe de Austin. Three years later he received a land grant in the Washington municipality, . . . — — Map (db m129701) HM |
| On 22nd Street at Sam Houston Avenue (State Highway 75), on the right when traveling east on 22nd Street. |
| | Oilman and Huntsville native Robert A. Josey donated funding for the construction of this log structure in 1933. Additional funding was obtained from the federal government's Civil Works Administration (CWA), and Gibbs Brothers and Company donated . . . — — Map (db m117556) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | Born a slave and reared on the Alabama plantation of the Lea family, Joshua Houston was brought to Texas in 1840 by Margaret Lea and Sam Houston. During the years after the Civil War, he became a prominent businessman and respected community leader. . . . — — Map (db m8079) HM |
| Near 19th Street near Avenue M. |
| | Law office built and used at various periods of his later life by Sam Houston: Soldier, Statesman, Master Mason. — — Map (db m8081) HM |
| | Margaret Moffette Lea was born on her family’s farm in Pleasant Valley, near Marion, Alabama. She graduated from Judson Female Institute in Marion in 1837, and in 1839 she met General Sam Houston. Houston, who had completed his term as the first . . . — — Map (db m22031) HM |
| On Avenue I at 9th Street, on the right when traveling north on Avenue I. |
| | This cemetery existed as early as 1846, for three graves were placed here that year. Pleasant Gray, Huntsville's founder, deeded in 1847 a 1,600-square foot plot at this site. The original tract has been greatly enlarged by other donations from . . . — — Map (db m8074) HM |
| On 11th Street (U.S. 190) just east of Sam Houston Avenue (State Highway 75), on the left when traveling east. |
| | Old Gibbs Store, oldest business in Texas under original ownership and on first site. Established 1841 in Republic of Texas by Thomas Gibbs. Building erected in 1847 after Sanford Saint John Gibbs joined firm. General Sam Houston was steady customer . . . — — Map (db m111867) HM |
| On University Avenue near 17th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | First permanent structure built by state of Texas for teacher training--when Joseph Baldwin was president of Sam Houston Normal Institute, L. S. Ross was governor, and A. T. McKinney was chairman of the S.H.N.I. local board. Cornerstone was laid . . . — — Map (db m66312) HM |
| On Avenue F/ Martin Luther King Drive near 9th Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Dr. Rufus W. Bailey, a teacher, minister and attorney educated in New England, came to Huntsville as a language professor at Austin College in 1855. He acquired an eight-acre tract on this site and erected a house which he named "Buena Vista," but . . . — — Map (db m66314) HM |
| | The first campus structure to be used exclusively for library purposes, this building was erected in 1902. Built with assistance from the Peabody Education Fund (a philanthropic program created by northern banker George Peabody soon after the Civil . . . — — Map (db m66313) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | Doctor Pleasant Williams Kittrell, a statesman in North Carolina and Alabama, moved with his family to Texas in 1850. While serving two terms in the Texas Legislature, the doctor authored the bill to establish the University of Texas. Though the . . . — — Map (db m129691) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | Benjamin Harrison Powell (1881-1960) was a successful lawyer in the area for fifteen years until he was appointed in 1918 by Governor Hobby as judge of the 12th District Court and subsequently to the Commission of Appeals in Austin. Marian (Rather) . . . — — Map (db m129693) HM |
| On Avenue I at 9th Street, on the right when traveling north on Avenue I. |
| | Born March 2, 1793, in Rockbridge County, Va.; son of Samuel and Elizabeth Houston. Moved to Tennessee in 1807 with widowed mother and her family. In 1813 joined U.S. Army under Gen. Andrew Jackson, with whom he formed lifetime friendship and . . . — — Map (db m8072) HM |
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Sam Houston
American, Texan, Patriot, Master Mason
U.S. Congressman - Tennessee
1823-1827
Governor of Tennessee
1827-1829
President - Republic of Texas
1836-1838 and 1841-1844
U.S. Senator - Texas
1859-1861
"The great . . . — — Map (db m119804) HM |
| On 11th Street (U.S. 190) at North Sam Houston Avenue (State Highway 75), on the right when traveling west on 11th Street. |
| | This corner was a favorite site where General Sam Houston sat in a special hide-bottom chair to whittle small objects and talk with customers at the General Mercantile Store owned by his friends Thomas and Sandford Gibbs. Early records of the . . . — — Map (db m111866) HM |
| On University Avenue at 12th Street, on the left when traveling south on University Avenue. |
| | General Sam Houston is credited with having sat on this corner to whittle and tell stories to groups of listeners who gathered around him while visiting a store operated at this location during the years the Houston family lived in Huntsville . . . — — Map (db m111868) HM |
| On 11th Street (U.S. 190) east of Sam Houston Avenue (State Highway 75), on the left when traveling east. |
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Forrest Lodge No. 19, A.F & A.M., erected its first lodge building at this site early in 1850 on a lot measuring 50 by 75 feet purchased in 1849. The two-story white frame building was 50 feet square with five plastered brick columns in front. . . . — — Map (db m111849) HM |
| On 19th Street at Avenue M on 19th Street. |
| | Built in 1858 by Dr. Rufus Bailey, 1858-62 president of Austin College, as a wedding gift for son. Unusual house caused such joking, however, the couple refused to live in it.
In 1862, after Sam Houston left governorship of Texas, he rented . . . — — Map (db m66315) HM |
| Near 10th Street at University Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The Bedias (Bidai, Bedai) Indians, a small southeastern Texas tribe, were probably the earliest inhabitants of the Walker County region. "Bidai" is thought to derive from a Caddo word meaning "brushwood". The peaceful Bedias lived in scattered . . . — — Map (db m100258) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Sam Houston died of pneumonia on July 26, 1863, at the age of 70. His funeral was held on July 27, 1863, in the upstairs parlor of his home, the Steamboat House, then located one-fourth mile to the east. At the service the minister read a poem that . . . — — Map (db m82311) HM |
| On University Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The first Walker County Courthouse was available for county Commissioners Court meetings in July 1848; the building was finally completed in the center of the Huntsville public square in 1850. Because of a defective foundation, a second courthouse . . . — — Map (db m29060) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | Oakwood Cemetery is home to many grave markers from the year 1867 when yellow fever, one of the most dreaded diseases of the time, struck the county. The disease ravaged many cities across the United States. Texas remained relatively untouched until . . . — — Map (db m129622) HM |
| On Avenue J near 19th Street. |
| | During the summer of 1911, the "State Residence" built by President H.C. Pritchett was moved from its original location to the Wilson lot, current site of the Lowman Student Center. While the residence was being remodeled for President Harry F. . . . — — Map (db m66320) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street. |
| | Thomas Henry Ball was born in Northumberland County, Virginia, in 1819, the son of The Rev. David Thomas and Hannah Henry (Gaskins) Ball. Following in his father's footsteps, Ball became a Methodist minister. While serving his first congregation in . . . — — Map (db m129692) HM |
| On Avenue I at 9th Street, on the right when traveling north on Avenue I. |
| | The present monument was erected by the State of Texas and unveiled on April 21, 1911, the 75th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto. Among several thousand spectators present were Houston family members, State officials, the two surviving . . . — — Map (db m82312) HM |
| Near Avenue I at 9th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Seven Union Soldiers who died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1867 are buried here. They were sent to Huntsville during the reconstruction period to maintain order in Walker County four years after the soldiers had been in the penitentiary.
. . . — — Map (db m50222) HM |
| On Sam Houston Avenue (State Highway 75) north of 12th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Formed from Montgomery County
Created April 6, 1846 --- Organized July 13, 1846
Named in honor of
Robert James Walker, 1801-1869
a distinguished citizen of
Mississippi and advocate of the
annexation of Texas
Renamed Walker County . . . — — Map (db m111861) HM |
| On University Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The earliest known inhabitants of this area were the Cenis and Bidai (Bedias) Indians. Spanish explorers began to arrive in 1542, followed by the French in 1687. The area was thinly populated by Spanish and Mexican settlers until the early 1830s . . . — — Map (db m111864) HM |
| Near 19th Street near Avenue M. |
| | General of the army which won the war for Texas Independence, 1836, and first President of the Republic, 1836-1838, Sam Houston was one of the most controversial and colorful figures in Texas history.
In his eventful career, Houston had resided . . . — — Map (db m8040) HM |
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