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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Lavaca County, Texas
Adjacent to Lavaca County, Texas
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| On East 3rd Street at North Main Street, on the left when traveling east on East 3rd Street. |
| | Jan. 1, 1863 --- Jan. 1, 1914
In commemorating the 50th anniversary of the capture of Galveston by the Southern Confederacy. Gen. Arthur P. Bagby commanding the "Neptune."
Banners may be furled but heroism lives forever.
Capt. J. T. . . . — — Map (db m128143) HM WM |
| On South Dowling Street north of Edna Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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Native Alabamian, last surviving member
of West Point class of 1852, lawyer,
Colonel in 7th Texas Confederate Cavalry,
participant in Sibley's New Mexico campaign,
commanded volunteer land troops on
board Confederate ship Neptune during . . . — — Map (db m132425) HM |
| On South Dowling Street north of Edna Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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Came to Texas in 1831. Member Captain
William H. Patton's Company at the Battle of
San Jacinto. Served in the Vasquez Campaign and
against the Indians in 1842. Died in 1874. — — Map (db m132421) HM |
| On South Dowling Street at East 4th Street (Alternate U.S. 90), on the right when traveling south on South Dowling Street. |
| | Methodist circuit riders under the stewardship of John W. DeVilbiss and Henderson D. Palmer served this area as early as 1842. This congregation traces its origin to a Methodist society established by eleven charter members in 1851. Early services . . . — — Map (db m132428) HM |
| On South Main Street at East 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street. |
| | Oldest bank in Lavaca County; has operated in this city block continuously since its establishment by Friench Simpson (1848-1923) and Carey Shaw (1854-1944), former employees of the J. H. Simpson Bank, Columbus. Shaw was also one of the original . . . — — Map (db m128141) HM |
| On South Dowling Street north of Edna Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | (Front)
Born Tennessee. Legislator. Went to
Missouri 1853. Indian agent Kansas
Territory. Kansas representative U.S.
Congress 1854-57. Moved Texas before
Civil War. Organized Lavaca County
company for C.S.A. 1861. Led 4th . . . — — Map (db m132426) HM |
| Near S Dowling St south of East 5th Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Founded 1838
County Seat, Lavaca County
since 1852
Named for Mrs. Margaret Hallett, widow of John Hallett, a member of Austin's colony and a veteran of San Jacinto, who donated the town site. — — Map (db m95361) HM |
| On South Dowling Street south of East 5th Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Land originally property of Mrs. Mary Jane Hallet Ballard, who deeded it to trustees of the "Hallettsville Graveyard" in 1870. Area pioneers were buried here until 1898. The monument in center honors county's heroes in battles of the Alamo, Goliad, . . . — — Map (db m95362) HM |
| On South Dowling Street north of Edna Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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Battle of Pea Ridge,
commanded "Whitfield's
Legion" at Iuka, Brigade
commander Vicksburg
Campaign, Texas legislator — — Map (db m132419) HM |
| On South Dowling Street north of Edna Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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Came to Texas about 1832
Fought in the Texas War for
Independence at Bexar, 1835
and at San Jacinto, 1836
Died in Lavaca County, 1849 — — Map (db m132420) HM |
| On East 3rd Street west of North La Grange Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Fifth structure to serve as seat of justice for Lavaca, created originally as "La Baca", a judicial county, by Congress of Republic of Texas in 1842. Declared unconstitutional along with other judicial counties, it was created anew by First . . . — — Map (db m128140) HM |
| | Gallows used Sept. 12, 1879, at public hanging of "Pocket", an Indian, killer of Englishman Leonard Hyde. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1967 — — Map (db m26534) HM |
| On South Dowling Street north of Edna Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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Came to Texas in 1835
Served in the Texas Army
from October 3 to December 14, 1835
Member Company D,
First Regiment Texas Volunteers
at San Jacinto, 1836 — — Map (db m132422) HM |
| On South Dowling Street north of Edna Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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William Ponton, Ponton's Creek, May 1834
O'Dougherty Family: Father and three
children, and John Douglas Family
Father, Mother and two children, Clark's
Creek, March 4, 1836. John Hibbens and
George Creath, Rocky Creek, March 1836 . . . — — Map (db m132427) HM |
| On Alternate U.S. 90 0.6 miles west of County Road 132, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Edward M. Rabb (1855-1908) a native of La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, was the son of William and Prudence Smalley Rabb. In the 1880s Dr. Edward M. Rabb settled in this area and purchased 2089 acres of land from S. W. Campbell.
At his death, . . . — — Map (db m128142) HM |
| On South Dowling Street north of Edna Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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Came to Texas in 1834
Served in the Army of Texas, 1836
A member of Captain William Heard's Company of
Citizen Soldiers at the Battle of San Jacinto — — Map (db m132423) HM |
| On South Main Street at South Russell Street, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street. |
| | The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway Company (S. A. & A. P.) was chartered by the State of Texas in 1884 to connect the city of San Antonio with Aransas Bay, and the rail line officially came to Hallettsville on April 23, 1887. A large . . . — — Map (db m95371) HM |
| On U.S. 77 0.7 miles south of Farm to Market Road 318, on the right when traveling south. |
| | A native of Virginia, William Smothers was orphaned at 12 when Indians killed his father, and his mother died of shock. In the American Revolution, he fought at King's Mountain, Guilford Courthouse, Camden, and Eutaw Springs. He moved to Kentucky in . . . — — Map (db m95372) HM |
| On Farm to Market Road 532 at County Highway 290, on the right when traveling west on Highway 532. |
| | In 1916, nineteen taxpayers of the Moulton Independent School District (MISD) petitioned the county court to establish a new rural school for northwest Lavaca County,
because unpaved roads and a lack of school buses made it difficult for rural . . . — — Map (db m155565) HM |
| On Avenue E (Alternate U.S. 90) west of Church Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Shiner, Texas, was organized on November 1, 1887, in the office of L. P. Amsler, Shiner's first mayor. The Rev. C. C. Armstrong presided over the first service.
In 1889 local rancher David Kokernot . . . — — Map (db m128138) HM |
| On County Route 533 at County Route 342, on the left when traveling south on County Route 533. |
| | The community of Half Moon was first mentioned in a 1689 account from Gov. Alonso de Leon's expedition when the group encountered a Native American tribe that called Half Moon their home. The area was known as Half Moon due to the peculiar shape of . . . — — Map (db m68496) HM |
| On County Route 533 0.2 miles south of County Route 342A, on the right when traveling south. |
| | This Greek revival home (200 yds. N) was built in the 1880s by George Herder (1818-1887), veteran of the Texas Revolution and pioneer farmer and rancher in the Half Moon community. A son, William (d. 1940), later ran a butcher shop and farmed the . . . — — Map (db m68497) HM |
| On State Highway 95 north of Miller Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Founded as outgrowth of an 1895 invention that used smooth wire discarded when barbed wire fencing was introduced in this area. August Kaspar, son of a Swiss Lutheran missionary to Texas, salvaged some of the plain wire and made a corn shuck basket . . . — — Map (db m95435) HM |
| On St. Ludmila Street at Philip Street, on the right when traveling south on St. Ludmila Street. |
| | The first Catholic school in Shiner was built in 1896 by Scherbohm and Mewes, contractors. The two story French style frame building housed two classrooms, a dining room and kitchen on the first floor, and a residence for the Sisters on the second . . . — — Map (db m128137) HM |
| On Saint Ludmila Street west of Avenue E (Alternate U.S. 90), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Early German and Czech settlers in this area of Lavaca County attended Catholic worship services in private homes or at churches in Hallettsville or Moulton until 1890, when a new mission was established in Shiner by the Rev. John Anthony Forest. . . . — — Map (db m95442) HM |
| On Alternate U.S. 90 0.5 miles west of County Road 357, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Sarah Howard suffered much at the savagery of the Texas wilderness. Born in Illinois, Sarah came to Texas with her husband, John McSherry, in 1828. The next year, John was killed near their home by Indians. Sarah later married John Hibbens, but . . . — — Map (db m128139) HM |
| Near 5th Street (State Highway 95) at Hilltop Road (County Route 355), on the left when traveling north. |
| | Built by the Shiner Brewing Association, a stock company of local men. Sold in April 1915 to Kosmas Spoetzl (1873-1950), native of Bavaria and former operator of a brewery in Cairo, Egypt.
This plant remained open in 1918-33 (Prohibition era), . . . — — Map (db m95436) HM |
| On U.S. 77 Alt at Ellen May Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 77 Alt. |
| | Chisholm Trail Memorial Park
The Chisholm Trail Memorial Park, originally known as Palmer Park, is re-dedicated to the memory of the Old Trail Drivers of the Yoakum-Bovine, Texas area who passed this way, 1867 – 1887.
In the Centennial . . . — — Map (db m125472) HM |
| On U.S. 77 Alt at Ellen May Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 77 Alt. |
| | In Memory of
The Trail Drivers
of
Southwest Texas
Who Passed This Way
1867 – 1887
Erected by the State of Texas
1936 — — Map (db m125471) HM |
| On U.S. 77 Alt at Ellen May Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 77 Alt. |
| | Located on DeWitt-Lavaca County line on land granted by Mexico in 1835 to settler John May. Cattle gathering area for Chisholm Trail. With coming of San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad in 1887, became transportation center. Named for rail official . . . — — Map (db m125469) HM |
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