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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K8U_george-self_Elgin-TX.html
A member of
Captain
Jesse Billingsley's
company at
the Battle of
San Jacinto
April 21, 1836
Died in March, 1856.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K6W_site-of-the-home-of-col-robert-m-coleman_Elgin-TX.html
Signer of the Texas
Declaration of Independence
Aide-de-camp to Gen. Houston at
San Jacinto
Commander of a regiment of Rangers
1836-37
Here his widow
Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman
and son, Albert V. Coleman
were killed by Indians
and Thomas C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHAX_lund_Elgin-TX.html
First known as Pleasant Hill, this community was settled by Swedish immigrants in the late 1880s. The name of the settlement eventually was changed to Lund in honor of a city in southern Sweden. Under the leadership of the Rev. J.A. Stamline, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGXB_type-cemetery_Elgin-TX.html
The earliest anglo settlers of this area came to the vicinity in the 1840s. They called their community Post Oak Island for an isolated oak grove between Bastrop and Circleville. Many of these pioneers had moved on by the time Swedish and Danish i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGQQ_pioneer-publisher-and-printer-david-ervin-lawhon_Elgin-TX.html
Born in Tennessee on June 15, 1811. While very young learned the printing trade and worked at it in some of the principal cities of the United States.
Came to Nacogdoches, Texas, in November, 1835, in answer to pleas for volunteers for Texas Ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGMF_post-oak-island-lodge-181-a-f-a-m_Elgin-TX.html
Settled as early as the 1840s, Post Oak Island was one of this area's earliest communities. There, on September 15, 1855, I.J. Kidd, T. Gatlin, P.A. Middleton, M. Gardner and A.S. Harper established a Masonic lodge. On February 2, 1856, the lodge …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGKE_taylor-national-bank_Elgin-TX.html
A.O. Watson of Austin designed this red sandstone building for the Taylor National Bank, which was organized in 1888. Completed in 1894, it has also housed the law firm of Mantor and Briggs, an office of the Weather Bureau, and the Taylor Refining…