The bluff stands 80 feet above the Colorado River at Wilbarger Bend. Josiah Wilbarger was an early settler whose family owned the land on the opposite side of the river during the 1800s. Josiah was one of a few Texans who were scalped and lived to . . . — — Map (db m79096) HM
After Emancipation, education was a key pathway to economic prosperity for African Americans. However, funds were often scarce and advocates experienced significant disparities in public monies appropriated for black education. Booker T. Washington . . . — — Map (db m254149) 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 m222646) HM
After Emancipation, many freed Black families began purchasing land in the area, forming self-sufficient communities where they could thrive. It was this community that formed Mt. Olive Baptist Church in 1874 and was the driving force behind the . . . — — Map (db m310606) HM
African American citizens of Bastrop established Mt. Olive Baptist Church in 1874, first meeting in a brush arbor. After a short time, Mary Francis Handly donated land and a small sanctuary was built, with a split cedar log pew for the congregation. . . . — — Map (db m310630) HM
In 1873, a landowner named Mary Doyle, on her deathbed, willed 1,714 acres of her land along Cedar Creek to the freedmen who then were living or had lived on her farm. The list of freedmen included members of the Doyle, Overton, McArthur, Patton and . . . — — Map (db m309612) HM
