On South Main Street (County Road 245) at Johnson Street, on the left when traveling south on South Main Street. Reported missing.
Organized November 11, 1844. Baptist General Convention of Texas organized here in 1848. Twenty-three of Texas' thirty-four Baptist churches were represented. Present building was constructed with native rock by slave labor and finished in 1855. . . . — — Map (db m128637) HM
On South Main Street, on the left when traveling south.
Built in 1834 by Henry Fanthorp as a home for his bride, Rachel Kennard. Enlarged for hotel purpose. Served as first mercantile establishment and first post office (1835) in the region. Here Kenneth Lewis Anderson, Vice-President of the Republic of . . . — — Map (db m118940) HM
On South Main Street (Loop State Highway 429) at West Buffington Avenue, on the left when traveling south on South Main Street.
On road used 1690 by Spanish explorer Alonso de Leon. In 1821 Andrew Millican began settlement. Henry Fanthorp opened his inn 1834, a post office 1835. Kenneth Anderson, last Vice-President, Republic of Texas, died at Fanthorp's, 1845. After his . . . — — Map (db m118977) HM
On South Main Street (Loop State Highway 429) at West Buffington Avenue, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street.
Unique Victorian Texas public building. Third courthouse here. Site, in an 1824 land grant from Mexico, was donated 1850 by Henry Fanthorp, first permanent settler in county.
Built 1891 of hand-molded brick with native stone trim. Vault is . . . — — Map (db m118975) HM
On South Main Street (Loop State Highway 429) at Buffington Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Main Street.
Civil War military concentration point for troops and ordnance. Rich farm land.
By 1861 densely populated. Favored secession by 907 to 9 vote. Sent 5 cavalry, 4 infantry companies to Confederate Army.
Arms and ordnance works at Anderson . . . — — Map (db m118976) HM
On South Main Street (State Highway 429) at Buffington Lane, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street.
Mathew Caldwell was called Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution. Caldwell’s daughters Lucy Ann and Martha Elizabeth came to Grimes County from Gonzales. Martha E. Married Isham Dixon Davis and settled N. Grimes County at Mesa, near Iola, by 1846. . . . — — Map (db m111903) HM
Front:
Erected by the State of Texas
in memory of
Kenneth Lewis Anderson
Born in Hillsboro, North Carolina, Sept. 11, 1805
District Judge, Speaker of the House of the Sixth Congress
and last Vice President of the Republic of Texas . . . — — Map (db m118937) HM
On Fanthorp Street, 0.1 miles south of Apalonia Avenue (Farm to Market Road 1774), on the right when traveling north.
This short stretch of road is the last remaining local portion of two very important early Texas roads. La Bahia Road (early 1700's) was an old Spanish military road that forked southwesterly from the Old San Antonio Road west of Nacogdoches, to . . . — — Map (db m118974) HM
Born in Tennessee. In 1828 he and family joined Robertson's Colony, bound for Texas. Arrived in 1830, probably having stopped to "make a crop" along the way.
Lived in present Grimes County; was granted a third of a league of land in Robertson's . . . — — Map (db m118939) HM
On South Main Street (County Highway 245) south of West Apalonia Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
This historic bridge was originally located on CR 263 (known locally as CR 180) over Rocky Creek. Constructed around 1905, the Warren pony truss measured 50 feet in length and is a rare survivor of a once-common structure. The single-span, four . . . — — Map (db m111910) HM
On County Highway 244, 1 mile west of State Highway 90, on the right when traveling west.
Of the Southern Confederacy established in 1861 · In operation until 1865 · Cannon, cannon balls, guns, pistols, swords, sabers, bayonets and gun powder were manufactured
Erected by the State of Texas 1936 — — Map (db m157882) HM
On Houston Street at West Apalonia Avenue (Farm to Market Road 1774), on the left when traveling south on Houston Street.
Built before 1860. Log walls are unspliced. Slaves hand-hewed the timbers, stones, made doors, window shutters. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965 — — Map (db m157834) HM
On South Main Street (Loop State Highway 429) at West Buffington Avenue, on the left when traveling north on South Main Street.
In memory of
Colonel Benjamin Fort Smith,
Dr. Robert C. Neblett, Veterans of
The War of 1812
Colonel Benjamin F. Smith
Veteran of the Black Hawk War, 1832
Jared E. Groce, Joshua Hadley
William Robinson, delegates to the
First . . . — — Map (db m118943) HM
