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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3G_austin-womans-club_Austin-TX.html
Begun as family residence by Mrs. Catherine North in 1874. Completed in style of French Chateau by Austin banker, Maj. Ira Evans, 1892. Bought by charter members, A.W.C., 1929. Remodelled, using 19th century materials.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3F_austin-state-hospital_Austin-TX.html
While Texas was a frontier state and psychiatry a pioneer venture, the Texas Legislature in 1856 created this hospital for the mentally ill; in 1925, named Austin State Hospital. Oldest Texas mental hospital. Construction began in 1857. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3E_1933-austin-public-library_Austin-TX.html
Overlooking one of the city's four public squares platted in 1893, this site was obtained from the Texas Legislature in 1913 for a public library. Completed in 1933, this building represents the most prominent public work of Austin native Hugo Kue…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3D_austin-presbyterian-theological-seminary_Austin-TX.html
This seminary had its origins in the Austin School of Theology, begun in 1884 by the Rev. Dr. Richmond Kelley Smoot and the Rev. Dr. Robert Lewis Dabney to provide training for candidates for the Presbyterian ministry whom the founders hoped would…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3C_austin-high-school_Austin-TX.html
In Edwin Waller's 1839 plan for the City of Austin, two blocks were set aside for schools at Rio Grande and 12th Street, then called College Avenue. The Austin School Board in 1881 authorized the use of existing school facilities on the south bloc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3A_austin-high-school_Austin-TX.html
An ornate, red brick building at this site served as the first structure in town built for the public high school, founded in 1881. Construction of the facility was hastened when classrooms in the former temporary State Capitol at 11th and Congres…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH38_john-williams-howell-hoggett-william-atkinson-daniel-hornsby_Austin-TX.html
To John Williams and Howell Gaggett. 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". To William …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH37_the-archive-war_Austin-TX.html
In 1839 Austin became the Capital of the Republic of Texas. The National Archives - state papers and land titles - were housed on Congress Avenue. In 1842, after Mexican armies seized San Antonio and seemed likely to capture Austin, many residents…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH36_all-saints-episcopal-church_Austin-TX.html
This edifice stands on the mid-1840s land grant of former Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar, and near the official residence of the second Bishop of the Diocese of Texas, the Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving (1849-1928). Aided by the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH35_african-americans-in-the-texas-revolution_Austin-TX.html
Many African Americans, free and slave, supported Texas during its 1835-36 war of independence from Mexico. Although official recognition of the African American role was generally denied, recorded accounts of individual acts of bravery and patrio…
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