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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23LU_dr-eugene-clark-library_Lockhart-TX.html
Built in 1899 and dedicated on July 6, 1900, this library was financed with funds bequeathed by Dr. Clark, who was a prominent physician of Lockhart and San Antonio. A native of New Orleans, he was a graduate of Tulane Medical School and studied i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PZC_first-presbyterian-church-of-lockhart_Lockhart-TX.html
In 1849, Rev. N.P. Charlot appointed D.M. Morris and Col. John T. Storey as elders of First Presbyterian Church, which organized with ten members. Early services were held in members' homes and the Masonic hall before church elders bought this sit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PZB_caldwell-county-confederate-soldiers-memorial_Lockhart-TX.html
(Northwest Face of Memorial)
In Memory of
Our Soldiers
(Southeast Face of Memorial)
Tell it as you may
It never can be told,
Sing it as you may
It never can be sung
The story of the glory
Of the men who wore the gray
(Northwest and S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PZA_caldwell-county_Lockhart-TX.html
A part of De Witt's Colony,
1825-1836. A part of Gonzales
County to 1848. First settlements
were on Plum Creek and the
San Marcos River
Created March 6, 1848
Organized August 7, 1848
Named in honor of
Mathew Caldwell,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PZ9_caldwell-county-courthouse_Lockhart-TX.html
The first Caldwell County courthouse was erected on this site in 1848, when the county was organized and named for Mathew Caldwell, a Texas Ranger and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. It was replaced in 1858 by a 2-story limestone …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GGU_zedlers-mills_Luling-TX.html
John and James Merriwether and Leonidas Hardeman in 1874 built gristmill and sawmill at this site, with a stone dam across the San Marcos River. Bob Innes, John Orchard, J.K. Walker, and Fritz Zedler, as Luling Water Power Co., bought mills in 188…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GGS_rafael-rios-no-1_Luling-TX.html
Discovery well of Luling Field, a major Texas oil area. Wildcatter E.B. Davis drilled on land owned by R. Rios. Well came in Aug. 10, 1922, after 3 dry holes had been drilled in same area. Magnolia (now Mobil) Oil Co. bought field 1926. By 1969, p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17IM_battle-of-plum-creek_Lockhart-TX.html
The harsh anti-Indian policies of President Mirabeau B. Lamar and Mexican efforts to weaken the Republic of Texas stirred Indian hostilities. Hatred increased after the Council House Fight in San Antonio, March 19, 1840, where 12 Comanche chief we…