A San Jacinto veteran · Born in Illinois, May 10, 1817 · Died May 31, 1880 His wife Johanne Bishoff Callihan Born in Germany, March 18, 1839 · Died March 1, 1925 — — Map (db m173659) HM
Most early Texas homes and towns were built along streams that provided water for people and livestock, and travel for boats said to be capable of "floating on a heavy dew".
Oyster Creek served, 1822-1861, as such a homesite-highway. Its boat . . . — — Map (db m89334) HM
John Sweeny, Jr., after returning from the Texas Revolution, was given this plantation by his father, an extensive landholder. In 1837 slaves built the house, using only brick, nails and wood made on his land. Molasses, cotton, sugar were produced. . . . — — Map (db m120659) HM
On land granted Stephen F. Austin by Mexico. Site given by E. B. and Mollie Thomas, devout Methodists. Since first grave, 1853, many early Texans have been buried here. Church was built by Wm. Hoskins. Community named for Rev. George Phair, pastor . . . — — Map (db m201831) HM
Though local Methodist worship can be traced to 1894, this congregation was officially organized in 1898 as the Methodist Episcopal Church of Pearland. The original frame building, shared with other denominations, was damaged in the storm of 1900 . . . — — Map (db m137335) HM
Settlement of this area began as a result of railroad development through north Brazoria County in 1882. First known as Mark Belt, the townsite was platted in 1894 and named Pearland because of the abundance of pear orchards in the vicinity. An . . . — — Map (db m50134) HM
The Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad built a siding switch called "Mark Belt" near here in 1883 as part of its Houston to Alvin branch rail line. In 1893 William Zychlinski purchased 2560 acres in this area which he subdivided and platted in . . . — — Map (db m174019) HM
Robert Lee Hunter and Julia Iva Martin had roots in Pearland as early as the the 1890s when the area was known as Mark Belt. Robert Lee Hunter was born to Josephine Bonaparte Estes and Thomas Johnson Hunter on November 16, 1868 in Fort Bend County . . . — — Map (db m174018) HM
A terrible storm ravaged Pearland in 1915. Among the important structures it destroyed was the town's high school. For the next 22 years, Pearland teenagers traveled to Webster to attend classes. The long commute severely curtailed their involvement . . . — — Map (db m137329) HM
Named for the Polish nobleman who came to Brazoria County in the late 1880s and fell in love with the flowering pear trees in an area he called Pearland, Zychlinski Park was included in the original town site.
Captain Wilhelm Zychlinski bought . . . — — Map (db m137331) HM
Famous boarding house built by Jarvis family of Old Quintana. Veteran of Gulf storms, including "Carla", 1961. Restored by B. T. Allen, present owner.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1964 — — Map (db m244324) HM
Named for a Mexican general. Early as 1532 a thriving village. Port of entry in Republic of Texas. Strategic fort in Civil War. Industrial area, cattle and cotton shipping point, 1870-1900. Fashionable summer colony, 1884 and afterwards. Largely . . . — — Map (db m244314) HM
On the other side of the storm levee is one of the last physical reminders of the early Texas seaport of Quintana. The Quintana Cemetery began as the family burial ground of Henry and Josephine Seaburn, who began homebuilding and shipbuilding . . . — — Map (db m202423) HM
NE Face:
On the 27th of June, 1832, Fort Velasco was attacked on this spot, and taken.
NW Face:
This Monument is erected to the memory of those who fell, by those who fought with them.
SW Face:
Here fought, here . . . — — Map (db m227060) HM WM
After the Battle of San Jacinto, the ad interim government of the new Republic of Texas first convened in this building, also known as the American Hotel, and met with the imprisoned Santa Anna.
George B. Erath, later a San Jacinto veteran . . . — — Map (db m243670) HM
An entire complex of forts, emplacements, bridges and roads was built near this spot in 1863.
Originally, a small redoubt was built in 1861-1862 mounting two 18-pound cannons. This fort was also referred to as Fort Velasco, according to . . . — — Map (db m243734) HM
During the beginning of the Texas Revolution, a naval force was quickly assembled, based out of Quintana and Velasco.
Even before Texas declared its independence, in late 1835 the provisional Texian government adopted laws to create a . . . — — Map (db m243671) HM
This complex of barge canals and natural channels—most valuable waterway in America—stretches 1,116 mi. from Brownsville, Texas, to St. Mark’s, Florida. Is longer, carries more tonnage than Suez and Panama canals. Is a vital link in . . . — — Map (db m90133) HM
1872 Capt. C.W. Howell recommended a system of two converging jetties of “closely-driven palmetto piles” to serve as a channel for a seaport at Velasco.
1879 Kanter family gets first contract for jetty construction, using local materials to . . . — — Map (db m90134) HM
Historic and key Texas port of entry located near here. During the Civil War was fortified by troops and 8 gun batteries at the mouth of the Brazos River, to provide shelter and landing facilities for blockade runners; to protect rich farmlands; . . . — — Map (db m244207) HM
The Texas Revolutionary Army built an artillery battery near this spot in early 1836, guarding the entrance of the Brazos River for the new Republic of Texas.
The fort existed for several years, through at least 1840: ... had an old . . . — — Map (db m243676) HM
After the Battle of San Jacinto, Santa Anna was held prisoner here and negotiated with the ad interim government of the new Republic of Texas at the nearby American Hotel.
Held prisoner with Santa Anna were several of his officers, . . . — — Map (db m244328) HM
The sidewheel steamer "Acadia", owned by Canadians, set out on her maiden voyage in Dec. 1864 for Nassau, Havana, and Vera Cruz. Loaded with food, hardware, and clothing, she braved the Federal blockade to bring the goods to suffering Texans. . . . — — Map (db m181333) HM
Located on an island owned by Stephen F. Austin in 1832, the town of San Luis was established by the early 1830s. In 1836 the Follett family opened a boardinghouse and established a ferry service between Galveston and Brazoria County. Developers . . . — — Map (db m244749) HM
First vessel with emigrants to Austin's colony landed here December 23, 1821.
The Battle of Velasco was fought here June 26, 1832.
Public and secret treaties of peace between the Republic of Texas and General Santa Anna were signed here . . . — — Map (db m237185) HM
An important cause of the Texas Revolution occurred right here on the beach at the mouth of the Brazos River.
The San Felipe was a schooner of the Quintana trading firm McKinney, Williams & Company. Having foreknowledge of "Mexican . . . — — Map (db m243778) HM
Nearby island, resort for fishermen, hunters, small boats. During the Civil War, 1861-65, used by such captains as H.C. Wedemeyer, a peacetime shipbuilder, as base for operations defying Federal blockade.
Ships loaded with cotton entered . . . — — Map (db m96293) HM
Here was fought a battle -- the first collision in arms between Texas colonists and the Mexican military -- a conflict preliminary to the Texas War for Independence.
On June 26, 1832, when Texans under John Austin and Henry Smith came down . . . — — Map (db m244208) HM
Begun as family burial ground when John Sweeny, early landowner, member Stephen F. Austin's colony, chose this site for burial of his young daughter Freedonia, 1833. In use ever since by the neighborhood. Has graves of veterans of all wars since . . . — — Map (db m158809) HM
John Sweeny Sr. with his wife Ann Fuller Smith, two daughters and seven sons arrived here in 1833 and settled in a house several yards away towards the northeast.
Shortly after their arrival a new born daughter named Freedonia died and this . . . — — Map (db m180879) HM
About 1918 towards the end of World War I, a train stopped at the Sweeny depot and a very ill soldier got off. The train left without him and he was found wandering the streets very sick. The doctor could not save him and he died at Rosie's Hotel . . . — — Map (db m180883) HM
• Ratified the constitution
• Appointed committees
• Provided for protection from Indians
• Provided for the army and navy
• Created the judicial branch
• Created the postal department
• Created the land office
• Established a . . . — — Map (db m164582) HM
Byrd Lockhart, Jr. moved to Green DeWitt’s Colony from Missouri around 1826 with several female relatives. He worked as a surveyor for the colony and settled in Gonzales, where he organized defenses against Indian attacks and supervised . . . — — Map (db m173015) HM
Charlie Brown, born a slave in the late 1820s, came to the Brazoria County area from Virginia before the Civil War. Despite being illiterate and using an X for his mark beside his name on legal transactions, Brown acquired a vast amount of land . . . — — Map (db m172982) HM
In September 1836 Columbia, now known as West Columbia, became capital of the Republic of Texas. This took place with the removal of the ad interim government here from Velasco. After the election called by ad interim President David G. Burnet, the . . . — — Map (db m49703) HM
In 1836 and 1837, the town of Columbia (Now West Columbia) served as the capital of the Republic of Texas. Josiah Hughes Bell, a colonist with Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, surveyed and platted Columbia in 1824 to serve as a center for . . . — — Map (db m41707) HM
When ad interim President David G. Burnet selected Columbia to serve as
the capital for the first elected Congress of the Republic of Texas, Columbia
had a population of approximately 3,000. A group of businessmen promised accommodations for use . . . — — Map (db m164586) HM
A grant from the Rosenwald Foundation of Chicago led to the establishment of a local school for African American students. The foundation represented a collaboration between Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, and the . . . — — Map (db m83276) HM
This congregation traces its history to early Methodist missionary activity during Texas' years as a republic in 1839. The Rev. Isaac L. G. Strickland was assigned to the Brazoria Circuit and organized a Methodist Church in Columbia (now West . . . — — Map (db m46456) HM
Under Mexican rule, the municipality of Columbia was a part of
the Department of Brazos, State of Coahuila and Texas. In early
1830, the Mexican government imposed a series of new policies in
an effort to strengthen Mexico's hold on the . . . — — Map (db m164566) HM
Due to the lack of accommodations in Columbia, a competition was
announced to search for a new capital location on November 14,
1836 with a decision to be made on November 30. Four ballots were
needed before the newly established town of . . . — — Map (db m164588) HM
General Santa Anna, the president of Mexico, posed one of the greatest
problems to the new republic. Captured following the Mexican army's defeat at San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, Santa Anna and the Texas cabinet traveled aboard the steamboat . . . — — Map (db m164569) HM
New Yorker George Rounds served in Col. James W. Fannin's regiment in the Texas War for Independence but escaped the Goliad Massacre. He settled in Columbia, where he operated a tavern. Just before his death, he drew up a will devising his estate . . . — — Map (db m173039) HM
A member of Austin's colony, 1829. Soldier in the Battle of Velasco; delegate to the General Convention, 1832; chief justice of Brazoria County, 1836. In this home, built about 1830, Stephen F. Austin died, December 27, 1836 — — Map (db m78618) HM
Faithful soldier, Texas War for Independence. He was in unit of Capt. Jacob Eberly, detailed by Gen. Sam Houston to guard Bell's Landing (East Columbia) until civilians could escape in front of Santa Anna's army. He and 15 others then hurried to . . . — — Map (db m173011) HM
Born in Georgia September 24, 1798 Died July 10, 1837 Delegate to the Consultation, 1835 Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836 — — Map (db m173097) HM
A member of Stephen F. Austin's original 300 colonists, Josiah Hughes Bell was born August 22, 1791, in Chester District, South Carolina. Josiah Bells father died when he was five years old, so he went to live in Tennessee with family to learn the . . . — — Map (db m182814) HM
Josiah Bell, a personal friend of Stephen F. Austin and member of
The Old Three Hundred, managed Austin's colony for seventeen
months while Austin traveled to Mexico to negotiate with the
newly independent Mexican government to continue his . . . — — Map (db m164565) HM
Born in North Carolina to Andrew and Elizabeth (Stevenson) McKenzie, Mary Eveline McKenzie met her future husband, Josiah Hughes Bell, while visiting her aunt and uncle in Christian County, Kentucky, where her family helped found Little River . . . — — Map (db m172994) HM
A tribute to the fidelity of pioneer Masons whose outstanding
leadership laid the cornerstone of the Republic of Texas. These
great Masons gave us our freedom, our heritage, our liberty, and
strengthened our faith in God. No men could have . . . — — Map (db m164584) HM
Mosely Baker
Austin -
Thomas J. Green
Bexar -
John W. Bunton
Bastrop -
Jesse Billingsley -
Dr. Branch T. Archer
Brazoria -
John A. Wharton -
John G. Robinson
Colorado -
John Chenoweth
Goliad -
William S. Fisher
Gonzales -
Jesse H. . . . — — Map (db m164575) HM
Dr. Stephen H. Everitt -
Jefferson and Jasper -
Robert Wilson -
Harrisburg and Liberty -
William H. Landrum -
Shelby and Sabine -
Shelby Corzine -
San Augustine -
Sterling C. Robertson
Milam -
Alexander Somervell -
Austin and . . . — — Map (db m164578) HM
Came to Texas in January, 1836 Led out to be shot with Fannin's men, March 27, 1836, but escaped Fought at San Jacinto in Captain William H. Patton's company Died in Columbia, December 27, 1836 — — Map (db m173082) HM
Near site of The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas
About 1833 Leman Kelsy built a story-and-a-half clapboard structure near this location. When Columbia became capital of the Republic of Texas in 1836, the building was one of two . . . — — Map (db m43057) HM
President
Sam Houston -
Vice President
Mirabeau B. Lamar -
Secretary of State
Stephen F. Austin -
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Smith -
Attorney General
James Pinckney Henderson -
Secretary of War
Thomas J. Rusk -
Secretary of . . . — — Map (db m164576) HM
In the 1920s, the Hogg family built this row of cottages and the barn. Generations of cattle hands, workers, and property managers called these cottages home. The Hogg family built these cottages in the midst of the oil boom to provide . . . — — Map (db m173814) HM
Site given by Josiah H. Bell family out of their grant, the first deeded to one of "Old 300" in colony of Stephen F. Austin. Has graves of many heroes of Texas Revolution of 1836.
Deeded in 1852 to Bethel Presbyterian Church. Since 1933 managed . . . — — Map (db m172990) HM
Zeno Phillips, one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300" colonists, acquired land here in 1829. Zeno and his brothers John Clark, Sidney, and James Ray (J.R.) Phillips, served in the Republic of Texas Army. The cemetery began with the burial of Zeno and . . . — — Map (db m96305) HM
The newly formed Republic of Texas faced many problems. With
no credit and no resources other than land, the republic had a
debt of 1.25 million dollars. Hostile Indians plagued the population. The new government appropriated $20,000 to . . . — — Map (db m164574) HM
During the early colonization of Texas, the Catholic religion was the
established religion of Texas. As the colonists arrived in Texas to receive
their land grant they were required to accept the Catholic faith even
though many of them were of . . . — — Map (db m164590) HM
In the August 9, 1836 issue of the Telegraph and Texas Register,
Stephen F. Austin, Henry Smith and Branch T. Archer were listed
as candidates for the office of president of the new republic.
Archer later withdrew and threw his support to . . . — — Map (db m164572) HM
Samuel Tubbs, born in Pembroke, Massachusetts in 1792, took the surname of his paternal grandmother, Katurah Angier, in 1812. He received his medical degree from Brown University in 1823 and in 1824 came to Texas as a member of Austin's Old 300 . . . — — Map (db m173055) HM
Following the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence on
March 2, 1836 at Washington on the Brazos, an ad interim government was formed. Headed by President David G. Burnet and Vice
President Lorenzo de Zavala, this government . . . — — Map (db m164571) HM
One of the “Old Three Hundred” who came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin in 1821 • First alcade (sic, alcalde) of Austin's Colony • On this tract of 6,642 acres, granted him in 1824, was later built the town of Columbia, First . . . — — Map (db m52793) HM
St. John's Masonic Lodge No. 5 traces its history to 1838 when a warrant of dispensation was granted by the Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. The first worshipful master, Daniel T. Fitchett, was installed by . . . — — Map (db m172984) HM
Stephen F. Austin's dedication to the settlement of Texas and its
role as a republic was unmatched. Working long hours sometimes
into the damp night as the republic's secretary of state, Austin
caught a cold, which became pneumonia. With his . . . — — Map (db m164585) HM
The fact that the Telegraph and Texas Register was operating in
Columbia following the revolution helped in Burnett's selection of
Columbia as the location for the meeting of Congress on October 3,
1836. The newspaper became the voice of the . . . — — Map (db m165828) HM
First male child born in Austin's colonies in Texas Born October 4, 1822 Died in March, 1871 His wife, Elizabeth Cayce Bell Born September 30, 1830 Died Feb. 24, 1864 — — Map (db m173006) HM
Last home of James Stephen Hogg, first native Texan to be elected governor. Located on an 1824 Spanish land grant made to Martin Varner. House built by sugar planter C. R. Patton. Restored 1920. Given to the State, 1958, by Miss Ima Hogg. . . . — — Map (db m173811) HM
The Brazos River, whose formal name Brazos de Dios is Spanish for Arms of
God, is the longest river in Texas. As it wound its way through Texas, it witnessed the coming of the first Anglo settlers, the signing of the Texas Declaration of . . . — — Map (db m164587) HM
No single building was large enough to house both the House of
Representatives and the Senate. Two buildings served the two
bodies of Congress with a number of smaller log houses serving
as offices and committee rooms. The Senate met in a . . . — — Map (db m164579) HM
A triple trunked live oak tree stood near the buildings which
housed the House of Representatives and Senate. Tradition holds
that the Texas Declaration of Independence was first read publicly
under this tree causing it to also be called . . . — — Map (db m164589) HM
The Old Three Hundred refers to the settlers who received land
grants in Stephen F. Austin's first colony. In 1821, Moses Austin,
Stephen's father, received the first land grant offered by the Spanish government to settle 300 families. Upon . . . — — Map (db m164563) HM
In January of 1836, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began gathering
troops on the Rio Grande River to begin his attempted take-over of Texas. Texans living in the southern parts of Texas began fleeing eastward to escape the invading Mexican . . . — — Map (db m164568) HM
Over the years, around a hundred enslaved men, women, and children lived here on the Patton plantation. Eighteen slave cabins once stood near this spot, forming a small community separate from the "big house" across the creek. The slaves . . . — — Map (db m173817) HM
In the 1840s, the Patton family slaves built this factory to produce sugar and molasses from sugarcane. Today, you can still see the outline of its foundation. Only the wealthiest planters could afford the massive investment of a sugar mill . . . — — Map (db m180369) HM
In 1920, Texas & Pacific Railway official William H. Abrams (1843-1926) of Dallas owned this old plantation land, then considered fit only for pasture. He leased mineral rights to the Texas Company (now Texaco, Inc.), whose drilling reached a . . . — — Map (db m52766) HM
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