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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1V_philquist-wood-house_Austin-TX.html
Sweden native Sven Axel Philquist, local district clerk and later clerk of the Texas Supreme Court, hired Swedish builder F. Oscar Blomquist to build this family home in 1912. Following several subsequent owners, grocer Sam Wood purchased the hous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1T_gen-george-w-terrell_Austin-TX.html
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 Aus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1R_las-ventanas_Austin-TX.html
Built 1875-1876 by A.J. Jernigan, Travis County treasurer, 1873-1888 and 1894-1896; of handmade, sun dried brick in transitional style between Greek revival and Victorian period, 1880's-1890's.
Name - meaning "the windows" - is for imaginativel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1Q_john-edward-lewis_Austin-TX.html
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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1O_bailey-hardeman_Austin-TX.html
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
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1N_elvira-t-manor-davis-house_Austin-TX.html
Elvira T. Manor Davis (1841-1918) was reared in east Travis County near present-day Manor, Texas. Named for her father, she married Blackstone H. Davis whose family owned quarry, supplied stone for the 1853 Texas Capitol. Elvira widowed and the mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1M_moore-hancock-farmstead_Austin-TX.html
Irish native Martin Moore and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (White), left their Austin residences and prosperous Pecan (6th) Street mercantile business and moved to a farm north of town about 1850. Their 521-acre farm, which included this property, was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1L_mount-olive-baptist-church_Austin-TX.html
The Mount Olive Baptist Church congregation was organized March 3, 1889, in the vicinity of Masontown, one of Austin's earliest African settlements. The early years of the congregation coincided with a period of intense optimism and community acti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1K_the-woman-suffrage-movement-in-texas_Austin-TX.html
Legal efforts to enfranchise women in Texas can be traced to 1868, when Rep. T.H. Mundine of Burleson introduced a Woman Suffrage Bill in the State Legislature. In the following five decades Texas women formed suffrage organizations to lobby for t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1J_andrew-jackson-hamilton_Austin-TX.html
A native of Alabama, Andrew Jackson Hamilton moved his family to Texas in the 1840s. He served as State Attorney General and as a member of the State Legislature before being elected to the U.S. Congress in 1859. An opponent of secession, he left …