Related Historical Markers

By Chris Kneupper

Masonic Oak and Markers

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Texas, Brazoria County, Brazoria — Masonic Oak —

Here on a day in March 1835, Brothers Anson Jones, John H. Wharton, Asa Brigham, J.A.E. Phelps, Alex Russell, and J.P. Caldwell met and resolved to petition the Grand Lodge of Louisiana for a dispensation to form a lodge of Freemasons. Their . . . — — Map (db m167942) HM

2 ► Texas, Brazoria County, Brazoria — 9573 — Masonic Oak —

Site of Organization, March 1835, the First Masonic Lodge in Texas, Holland Lodge, Brazoria. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966 — — Map (db m167902) HM

3 ► Texas, Harris County, Houston, University Place — 10686 — Holland Lodge No. 1 — Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Texas —

First Masonic Lodge in Texas. Organized in March 1835 at Brazoria. Set to work Dec. 27, 1835, under dispensation of Grand Lodge of Louisiana, for whose 1835-37 Grand Master, John Henry Holland, this lodge was named. Labors were interrupted in Feb. . . . — — Map (db m59774) HM

4 ► Texas, McLennan County, Waco — 2248 — Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F & A.M. —

The first attempt to establish Freemasonry in Texas occurred in 1828 when Stephen F. Austin and a group of Masons petitioned the Mexican National Grand Lodge for a lodge charter. Due to the political upheaval of the time, nothing became of the . . . — — Map (db m203383) HM

5 ► Texas, Bexar County, San Antonio, Alamo Plaza — Masonic Heroes of the Alamo —

. . . — — Map (db m30821) HM

6 ► Texas, Harris County, Houston, Downtown Houston — Former Site of Capitol, Republic of Texas —

Former Site of Capitol, Republic of Texas Texas won its independence from Mexico on April 21, 1836, and became a separate nation. Within a few months the Republic of Texas’s Congress selected the recently-founded town of Houston as the new . . . — — Map (db m140374) HM

7 ► Texas, Walker County, Huntsville — Sam Houston —

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