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Historical Markers and War Memorials in West Columbia, Texas
Location of West Columbia, Texas
► Brazoria County (114) ► Fort Bend County (65) ► Galveston County (303) ► Harris County (398) ► Matagorda County (77) ► Wharton County (26)
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| | 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 |
| | 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 |
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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 |
| | Site of
First Capitol
of Republic
of Texas
1836 - 1837 — — Map (db m129404) 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 |
| | 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 |
| | Nonviolent civil rights leader for racial equality. 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient. — — Map (db m164591) 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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 m46452) 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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
| | Dedicated to all the veterans who have served their country.
They served with honor, and now we honor them. — — Map (db m9552) 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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