571 entries match your criteria. Entries 401 through 500 are listed here. ⊲ Previous 100 — The final 71 ⊳
Texas 1936 Centennial Markers and Monuments Historical Markers
In 1935/1936 the State of Texas Legislature created a commission to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Texas independence from Mexico. Part of this consisted of placing about 1,100 statues, and granite and bronze markers and monuments around Texas. See more at the Texas Historical Commission website 1936 Texas Centennial Markers.
By Steve Gustafson, September 6, 2010
Moscow Male and Female Academy Marker
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| | On this site stood the Moscow and Female Academy. Operated after 1857 under Masonic auspices as the Moscow Masonic Academy until merged in the public school system. — — Map (db m35897) HM |
| | This is a two sided marker
Front:
Self Sacrifice of Padre Fray Juan de Padilla – 1544
Back
Built to the glorious and perpetual memory of Father Fray Juan de Padilla, O.F.M. Franciscan Missionary, first martyr . . . — — Map (db m91599) HM |
| |
Formed from
Young and Bexar Territories
Created August 21, 1876
Organized August 30, 1887
Named in honor of
Robert Potter
1800 – 1842
Signer of The Declaration of
Independence
Secretary of the Navy
Senator in the . . . — — Map (db m117780) HM |
| | Legend recounts that two Spaniards meeting here greeted each other "Mi Paisano" (My Countryman). First known to history when Juan Dominguez de Mendoza camped here on January 3, 1684. Well known after 1850 as a point on the Chihuahua Trail, an . . . — — Map (db m26360) HM |
| | Formed from Bexar County
Created January 3, 1850
Organized March 13, 1875
So named for the early "Fortress
garrisoned by soldiers."
Erected for the protection of the
Big Bend missions.
County seat
Fort Davis, 1875
Marfa, . . . — — Map (db m60843) HM |
| | First Anglo-American farmer
in Presidio County
In August 1848, Mr. Leaton acquired
the building and it has since
been known as Fort Leaton — — Map (db m60860) HM |
| | Approximate site of
Mission del Apostol Santiago
One of nine missions established
in the Big Bend country
by Father Fray Nicolas Lopez, O.F.M.,
and Don Juan Dominguez de Mendoza
in 1683-1684
Maintained by Franciscan missionaries . . . — — Map (db m60858) HM |
| | Proximate site of Presidio del Norte de la Junta established by Captain Alonzo Rubin de Celis in 1759-1760. Name of post retained in part by the present town and county. In this vicinity the missions of San Antonio de los Puliques, San Francisco . . . — — Map (db m60859) HM |
| | Here
Milton Faver
established in the fifties the first
Anglo-American owned ranch
in the Big Bend
Three quadrangular adobe fortresses
situated at the Big Springs
Cibolo, Cienaga and La Morita
served as a defense against
hostile . . . — — Map (db m60852) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m139155) HM |
| | Formed from Young and Bexar
Territories
Created, August 21, 1876
Organized, July 27, 1889
Named in honor of
Horace Randall
1821-1864
A distinguished Confederate
officer who fell in battle at the
head of his brigade
Canyon, . . . — — Map (db m55978) HM |
| | Formed from Tom Green County; created March 7, 1903, organized April 20, 1903. Named in honor of John H. Reagan 1818-1905. Indian fighter and surveyor member of Texas Legislature and United States Congress postmaster general of the southern . . . — — Map (db m63594) HM |
| | Site of the
first court house built in
Reagan County
The following officials were installed
May 8, 1903
Joseph J. Boyd, Judge
J. B. Lucas, Clerk
Henry Japson, Sheriff and Tax Col.
Frank Ramsey, Treasurer
W. C. Shamlin, Surveyor . . . — — Map (db m136341) HM |
| | Established May 20, 1857, as a means of preventing Indian raids on the San Antonio—El Paso route and the Rio Grande Valley • Abandoned March 15th, 1861, when Federal troops were withdrawn from Texas. — — Map (db m24382) HM |
| | Founded by the Franciscan Missionaries among the Lipan Apache Indians in 1762 • Abandoned in 1769 — — Map (db m24381) HM |
| |
City of Clarksville
incorporated
December 29, 1837
Named in honor of
James Clark
who settled near here
in 1834 — — Map (db m96144) HM |
| |
Pioneer soldier, statesman and publisher
Founder and Editor of the
Northern Standard
1842-1887
First and most important newspaper
in the region during that period
Around two log rooms built in 1833,
he erected his . . . — — Map (db m96655) HM |
| |
Founder of Clarksville ◊ Born
in Tennessee, 1798 ◊ Died in
Clarksville, 1838 — — Map (db m96883) HM |
| |
On this Site Stood the Home of
The Northern
Standard
A pioneer Texas newspaper edited
and published from August 20, 1842
to October 25, 1887 by Colonel
Charles DeMorse (1816-1887) ◊ A loyal
statesman and a . . . — — Map (db m96657) HM |
| | Used by emigrants and the Southern (Butterfield) Overland Mail which linked St. Louis and San Francisco with semi-weekly mail, 1858-1861. Headquarters in 1855 of Captain John Pope, supervisor of the drilling of the first deep well west of the 98th . . . — — Map (db m80284) HM |
| | In the early morning of March 14, 1836, twenty eight Texans under Captain Amon B. King separated from Col. William Ward's command in the mission church and late that day in a wood on the west bank of Mission River a half mile below the town fought a . . . — — Map (db m34071) HM |
| | Organized in 1835 into the Mexican municipality of Refugio. Created a county of the same name March 17, 1836, organized 1837. Named for the Mission "Our Lady of Refuge" established in 1791 to civilize and Christianize the Indians. Refugio, the . . . — — Map (db m33795) HM |
| | Formed from Young and Bexar
Territories
Created, August 21, 1876
Organized, January 10, 1889
Named in honor of
John S. Roberts
A signer of the Texas Declaration
of Independence, and
Oran Milo Roberts
Governor of Texas, 1878-1882 . . . — — Map (db m55798) HM |
| | Settled by people from Tennessee under an 1822 contract held by Sterling Clack Robertson (1785-1842), who later signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Colony and county were named for him. County was created Dec. 14, 1837, organized March . . . — — Map (db m119604) HM |
| | Founded in 1833 by Colonel E. L. R. Wheelock, soldier, lawyer and educator. One of the organizers of Robertson's Colony. Captain of Texas Rangers. Died in Edwardsville, Ill, in 1846 while visiting the place of his birth. — — Map (db m129296) HM |
| |
Formed from Bexar and Travis
Counties
Created February 1, 1858
Organized February 16, 1880
Named in honor of
Hiram G. Runnels
1796 - 1857
Lawyer and Governor of Mississippi
Member of the Texas Legislature
County Seat, Runnels . . . — — Map (db m72285) HM |
| |
First county seat of Runnels County ▲ Established in 1880 as Runnels City ▲ Declined after removal of the county seat to Ballinger in 1888 — — Map (db m95239) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m104812) HM |
| | Two Miles Southeast To
McMahan’s Chapel
The oldest Methodist church having a continuous existence in Texas. Organized as a "religious society" September, 1833 by the Reverend James P. Stevenson 1808-1885, as a Methodist Church, July 1834 by . . . — — Map (db m30720) HM |
| | Founded in 1828 as Red Mound Named in 1835 for Benjamin Rush Milam Seat of justice of Sabine municipality, 1835; of Sabine County, 1837-58. Incorporated December 29, 1837. Internal Revenue post during the Republic headquarters of the Quartermaster's . . . — — Map (db m29875) HM |
| | Named by the Highway Departments
of Louisiana and Texas
in honor of two brothers
James Gaines,
Who owned and operated a ferry line
1819 to 1844 and was a signer of the
Texas Declaration of Independence, and
General Pendleton . . . — — Map (db m30754) HM |
| | Born in North Carolina March 31 1808 • Arrived in Texas June 3, 1836 at the head of a company of volunteers • Attorney General of the Republic 1836 • Secretary of State 1836-1837 • Minister to England and France 1837-1839 • Special Minister to the . . . — — Map (db m151680) HM |
| | Established in 1716 by Padre Fray Antonio Margil de Jesús. Here faithful Franciscans labored for the purpose of civilizing and Christianizing the Ais Indians. Abandoned temporarily due to the French incursions from Louisiana in 1719. Restored by the . . . — — Map (db m30303) HM |
| | Eighteenth century Spanish explorers gave to the hyacinth-choked stream the name of Saint Hyacinth. Anglo-Americans settled here after 1820. Formed from portions of Polk, Montgomery, Liberty and Walker counties. Created January 5, 1869; recreated . . . — — Map (db m118972) HM |
| | Founded in 1830 by John McMullen and James McGloin as the seat of their Irish colony under an empressario contract dated August 17, 1828 which was fulfilled by the empresarios 1830-1835.
Named in honor of Saint Patrick the Patron Saint of . . . — — Map (db m77532) HM |
| | Formed from Crockett County. Created April 1, 1887. Organized July 9, 1901. Named in honor of Gustav Schleicher, 1823-1879. Pioneer German settler, member of the Texs Legislature, member of the United States Congress. County seat, El Dorado. First . . . — — Map (db m104051) HM |
| |
Formed from Young and Bexar
territories
Created • Organized
August 21, 1876 • June 28, 1884
Named in honor of
General William R. Scurry
1821-1864
member of the last Texas Congress
A distinguished officer in the
Confederate . . . — — Map (db m110943) HM |
| | Established by Brevet Colonel Sturgis acting under orders of Lieutenant General Charles Griffin, Commander Sixth U.S. Cavalry and Commander Frontier Area, for whom named. Headquarters of Companies A, F, & G, 11th Infantry and two companies 4th . . . — — Map (db m101560) HM |
| |
Formed from Bosque County
Created February 1, 1858
Organized September 12, 1874
Named in Honor of
Dr. Jack Shackelford
1790–1857
Captain of the “Red Rovers”,
a company from Alabama which
became a . . . — — Map (db m80001) HM |
| | Part of the neutral ground, 1803–1819. Settled by Anglo-Americans, 1824–1836. In 1833 a district of the Municipality of Nacogdoches, known as Tenehaw. In 1835 became municipality of Tenehaw with Nashville as the seat of government. . . . — — Map (db m111000) HM |
| | Formed from
Young and Bexar Territories
Created August 21, 1876
Organized June 13, 1889
Named in Honor of
General Sidney Sherman
1805-1873
Commander of the Left Wing of the
Army at the Battle of San Jacinto
Member of the Texas . . . — — Map (db m93400) HM |
| | At this site was the camp of the Army of the Republic of Texas under Generals Edward Burleson, Thomas J. Rusk, Albert Sydney Johnston, Hugh McLeod, Kelsey B. Douglas and Col. Willis H. Landrum just before they engaged Chief Bowles of the Cherokees . . . — — Map (db m91603) HM |
| | In this vicinity extended the Vial-Fragosa Trail blazed in 1788 by Pierre Vial and Francisco Xavier Fragosa on their way from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Natchitoches, Louisiana — — Map (db m91831) HM |
| | Stockade prison of Federal soldiers during the Civil War — — Map (db m33408) HM |
| | (east face)
School named for Texas Confederate
Colonel Thomas R. Bonner
1836-1891
Born in Mississippi. Came to Texas 1849. In Texas militia at start of Civil War. Elected captain Co. C, 18th Tex. Infantry, C.S.A., 1862. . . . — — Map (db m91433) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m33933) HM |
| | Site of
Confederate Arms Factory
Built in 1862
by Short, Biscoe and Company
A contract made in 1862 with
the State of Texas
to furnish 5000 guns
was annulled in 1863,
as needed material and labor
could not be secured.
The . . . — — Map (db m91302) HM |
| | Formed from Nacogdoches County
Created April 11, 1846, organized
July 13, 1846, named in honor of
General James Smith
pioneer soldier and stateman,
friend of General Sam Houston,
Thomas J. Rusk and J. Pinckney
Henderson
Born . . . — — Map (db m91277) HM |
| |
In the vicinity
of Harris' Place
Scouts from the Army of the
Republic of Texas were dispatched
from the present county of Van Zandt
after the battle with Cherokees
and associate tribes July 16, 1839
in which Chief Bowles was . . . — — Map (db m88740) HM |
| | Named for Alexander Somervell (1796-1854), native of Maryland, veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, Secretary of War under Texas President David G. Burnet; commanded the 1842 Somervell Expedition seeking to end Mexican invasions of Texas Republic. . . . — — Map (db m137836) HM |
| |
Site of the Mission
San Agustín de
Laredo a Visita
Established in 1749 as a part of
José de Escandón’s project to
settle the region and civilize
and Christianize the Indians.
— — Map (db m119497) HM |
| | Came to Texas in 1839 * served with Taylor's army in 1846 * married into the Garza family, pioneer settlers and large landowners in the region * Around his home, Rio Grande City grew up * Steamboats from Brownsville made the town a trading center * . . . — — Map (db m36748) HM |
| | Formed from Nueces County
Created February 10, 1848
Organized August 7, 1848
Named for Dr. James Harper Starr
1809 – 1890
Pioneer Texas surgeon and Indian fighter
Located at Nacogdoches in 1837
Secretary of the Treasury
of the . . . — — Map (db m117573) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m119462) HM |
| |
A body of Texans intent on invading Mexico camped here on December 21, 1842. After being made prisoners at Salado, Mexico, they drew beans, white for life in prison, black for death. 17 members of the expedition were shot by order of General . . . — — Map (db m119463) HM |
| | Thought to have been established
1853
Used as an outpost hospital
of Fort Concho
1874 - 1886 — — Map (db m125226) HM |
| | Explored 1541 on behalf of Spain by Francisco de Coronado. Visited by Texans early as the 1840's. Mapped by U.S. Army expedition of Capt. Randolph Marcy, 1849.
Yielded salt for use of early settlers and hunters. Was site of buffalo hunters' . . . — — Map (db m95075) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m143971) HM |
| | Has traces of culture at least 20,000 years old, occupied by Apache Indians up to founding of Fort Terrett, 1852. Anglo-Texan settlement began 1879 at Sonora, a trading post on San Antonio-El Paso Road.
Created April 1, 1887, from land then in . . . — — Map (db m126223) HM |
| | Two miles north of here
Gen. Ranald S. Mackenzie, 4th U.S. Cavalry, ordered shot the 1450 horses captured from Indians in battle in Palo Duro Canyon, September 28, 1874, to prevent their possible recovery by the Indians and to force the Indians to . . . — — Map (db m99806) HM |
| | Formed from Young and Bexar
Territories
Created: August 21, 1876
Organized: July 17, 1890
Named in honor of James Gibson Swisher
1794-1864 Conspicuous for gallantry at the storming of Bexar, 1835
Signer of the Texas . . . — — Map (db m91196) HM |
| |
(Inscription plate with text is missing) — — Map (db m79606) HM |
| |
Formed from Pecos County
Created Organized
April 8,1905 September 19, 1905
Named in honor of
Alexander Watkins Terrell
1827-1912
A distinguished officer in the
Confederate Army
Member of the Texas Legislature . . . — — Map (db m138870) HM |
| | Established in 1854. Here Colonel Robert E. Lee, U.S.A., then commanding Camp Cooper, held a peace parley with Chief Catumseh on April 11, 1856. — — Map (db m105368) HM |
| |
Formed from Rannin and Bosque Counties
Created January 13, 1858
Organized March 18, 1879
Named in honor of
Dr. William Edward Throckmorton
1795 - 1843
A Revolutionary soldier
Father of James Webb Throckmorton,
who became . . . — — Map (db m93349) HM |
| | Formed from
Red River and Bowie counties Created May 11, 1846
Organized July 13, 1846
Named in honor of
Andrew J. Titus 1814-1855
Pioneer of northwest Texas
Soldier in the Mexican War
Member of the Texas Legislature . . . — — Map (db m128255) HM WM |
| | An early stage stand named in honor of Major Ben Ficklin, 1820 - 1870. A noted frontiersman, mail and stage contractor, who assisted in establishing the Pony Express. He carried the first message from the first governor of California to the governor . . . — — Map (db m116101) HM |
| |
A part of the Miller and Fisher Grant in 1842
Created a County March 13, 1874
Organized January 5, 1875
Named in honor of
General Thomas Green, 1814–1864
A veteran of San Jacinto
Member of the
Somervell Expedition . . . — — Map (db m116100) HM |
| | A good will trip made in 1709, when Spain was uneasy about her 190-year-old claim to Texas, (She had closed East Texas missions, then had learned of a French trading visit to Texas, 1707.) Capt. Pedro de Aguirre and 14 soldiers escorted from a . . . — — Map (db m158917) HM |
| |
A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic.
Born in Tennessee, 1795. Died on Caney Creek, Matagorda County October 12, 1836 — — Map (db m25688) HM |
| | Here sleep Capt. and Mrs. Chauncey Johnson. Capt. Johnson was born in Burlington, Vermont May 1, 1798. Served in the War of 1812. Came to Texas in 1840. Captured by General Adrian Woll at San Antonio, September 11, 1842 and imprisoned in Mexico. . . . — — Map (db m25696) HM |
| | A soldier in the Army of Texas, 1835. Commander of Company C. First Regiment, Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto. Member of the 1st and 2nd Congresses of the Republic. Participated in the Woll Campaign, 1842. Member of the Senate, 5th and 8th . . . — — Map (db m25775) HM |
| | Born in Mississippi November 25, 1810. Came to Texas in 1833. A volunteer in the Army at Anahuac, 1835. Commanded a company at the Capture of San Antonio, 1835. Signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Commanded a company at San Jacinto. First . . . — — Map (db m25676) HM |
| | Participated in the disturbance at Anahuac June, 1832 and the storming and capture of Bexar, December 5 to 10, 1835. Born in North Carolina February 20, 1801. Died in Goliad County, Texas March 4, 1881.
Eliza Hancock Shipman
Wife of Daniel . . . — — Map (db m25666) HM |
| | A volunteer at Anahuac, 1832. Member of the Consultation, 1835. Commander of the schooner “Flash”, 1836. Most Worshipful Grand Master Grand (Masonic) Lodge of Texas, 1848-49. Born in Virginia, September 30, 1801. Died in Grimes County, . . . — — Map (db m44241) HM |
| | A veteran of the War of 1812
Internationally famous botanist
Friend of Darwin
Born in Georgia
Died at Long Point
Washington County, Texas
November 28, 1873 — — Map (db m74930) HM |
| |
Born in New York, January 8, 1801. Died in Bastrop County, Texas, October 31, 1853. Doctor-lawyer, soldier, legislator.
Delegate to the Second Convention of Texas, 1833 * Physician in the Army of Texas, 1835-1836 * Signer of the Declaration . . . — — Map (db m25888) HM |
| | Born in Kentucky 1803. Came to Texas in 1840 from Mississippi. Associate Justice, Supreme Court, 1840. Secretary of State, 1841. Attorney General, 1841-42. Charge d'affairs of the Republic of Texas to England, France and Spain 1844-45. Died in . . . — — Map (db m25693) HM |
| | Commanded Co. D., First Regiment of Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto. A member of 1st and 3rd Congresses of the Republic and later a Brigadier General of Militia. Born in Virginia Sept. 20, 1802. Died in Houston, Texas Nov. 4, 1848. His wife Eliza . . . — — Map (db m25765) HM |
| | Permanently wounded in the
Battle of San Jacinto while serving in
Captain William S. Fisher's company
Died January 18, 1842
near Old Cincinnati in
Walker County, Texas — — Map (db m158949) HM |
| | Participated in the Capture
of San Antonio, 1835
A member of
Capt. Moseley Baker's company
at San Jacinto
Born in Kentucky
on July 4, 1800
Died in Lavaca County, Texas
February 6, 1869 — — Map (db m44789) HM |
| | A member of Capt. Wm. W. Hill’s Company at San Jacinto. Born in Kentucky March 5, 1805. Died in Lee County, Texas August 15, 1848. Here also sleeps Amanda Wilkinson, wife of James G. Wilkinson. — — Map (db m25738) HM |
| | Escaped the massacre
March 27, 1836 and was the
last survivor of Fannin's
Army to die
Born in Kentucky in 1816
Died in Fort Worth, Texas
January 15, 1897 — — Map (db m117215) HM |
| | A member of Captain W. J. F. Heard's Company in the Battle of San Jacinto. Born in New York City, October 3, 1808, died April 1, 1892. His wife Anna (Scott) Lewis Born in Albany, N. Y. 1812 died May 24, 1896. — — Map (db m25690) HM |
| | Served in the Army of Texas, 1836, the Army of the United States in the Mexican War, 1846, the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. Born in Kentucky June 25, 1818. Died in Ellis County, Texas August 3, 1884.
His wife Rebecca Ann (Barker) Singleton. Born . . . — — Map (db m26536) HM |
| | A soldier of the San Jacinto Army. Born in South Carolina 1812. Died July 4, 1856. — — Map (db m25595) HM |
| | To John Williams and Howell Haggett. Killed by Indians in May, 1836 while detailed from Captain John J. Tumlinson’s company of Rangers to help protect the families of the Hornsby’s settlement on returning from the “Run Away Scrape”. . . . — — Map (db m152154) HM |
| | Born in Maine 1804. Died in Austin, Texas July 11, 1846. One of the founders of “The Telegraph and Texas Register” at San Felipe de Austin, October 10, 1835. A soldier at San Jacinto. First Chief Justice of Bexar County, 1836. Member of . . . — — Map (db m25767) HM |
| | To Josephus Hornsby Mar. 15, 1822 Oct. 21, 1862. Son of Reuben Hornsby; settled here, 1832, Bastrop ranger, 1837. In Flores Fight, 1839 Battle of Plum Creek, 1840 Brushy Fight, 1840, Vasquez and Woll Campaigns, 1842; led fight against Indians from . . . — — Map (db m152157) HM |
| |
Marking the spot where
Josiah Pugh Wilbarger
of Austin's Colony was stabbed
and scalped by the Indians in 1832
while locating lands for the Colonies.
Born in Bourbon Co. Ky. Sept. 10, 1801
Died in Bastrop Co. Tex. April 11, 1845 . . . — — Map (db m135942) HM |
| | Born in Virginia, June 4, 1778. Died in Jasper County, March 2, 1850. A delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Missouri, 1821. Senator in Legislature of Missouri. Second in command in the Fredonian War in Texas, 1826. Member of the . . . — — Map (db m26205) HM |
| | A soldier in the Army of Texas. Arrived at San Jacinto April 22, 1836. Born in South Carolina March 11, 1815. Died in Johnson County, Texas July 11, 1897.
His wife Elizabeth (Cooper) Walker. Born in Tennessee October 21, 1827. Died in Johnson . . . — — Map (db m25677) HM |
| | Born in Virginia February 14, 1781. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, 1820. Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and President of the Constitutional Convention, 1836. Senator in the Congress of the Republic of Texas, . . . — — Map (db m25858) HM |
| |
(front)
Born in Virginia, 1753 • Died in Cold Springs, San Jacinto County, Texas, 1837
(back)
Robert Rankin was an officer in the Continental Army, Virginia Troops, 1776, in the same company with his near kinsman, John . . . — — Map (db m79919) HM |
| | June, 1836 - November, 1838.
Established and first commanded by
Colonel Robert M. Coleman.
Succeeded by Capt. Michael Andrews
And
Capt. William M. Eastland.
An extreme frontier outpost occupied by Texas Rangers to protect . . . — — Map (db m79620) HM |
| | Site of the home built in 1832 by Reuben Hornsby (1793-1879) and his wife Sarah Morrison Hornsby (1796-1862).
Second built in “Austin’s Little Colony”. First in the present county of Travis.
Famed for Christian hospitality. . . . — — Map (db m152158) HM |
| | Established in 1868 in an area of five acres. Abandoned in 1870 when headquarters were removed to San Antonio. — — Map (db m25739) HM |
| |
(front)
Born in Tennessee
January 31, 1788
Died in Bastrop County, Texas
January 11, 1854.
His wife
Eliza De Witt Hardeman
Born Sept. 17, 1809
Died Feb. 8, 1863.
(back)
Member Second Congress
Republic of Texas; . . . — — Map (db m25650) HM |
| | Who manned one of the Twin Sisters Cannon at the Battle of San Jacinto and was a veteran of the Mexican War, 1847. Born in Tennessee June 6, 1804. Died March 27, 1861. — — Map (db m26236) HM |
| | Named in honor of William Barret Travis. Born in Edgefield District, South Carolina, August 1, 1809. Came to Texas in 1831. Commander at the Alamo where he was killed March 6, 1836.
Austin, the county seat, selected as the Capital of the Republic . . . — — Map (db m26686) HM |
571 entries matched your criteria. Entries 401 through 500 are listed above. ⊲ Previous 100 — The final 71 ⊳
RSS Feed