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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Z_g-w-riley-house_Georgetown-TX.html
Built 1872 by the Rev. S. J. Lane, chaplain, Southwestern University; founder, First Methodist church, Georgetown. Bought 1903 by the Rev. George W. Riley (1853-1925), a grandson of Llano County Indians' 1859 victim, the Rev. Jonas Dancer.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21Q_founding-of-georgetown_Georgetown-TX.html
According to local tradition Williamson County's first six commissioners met here under a stately oak tree in May 1848 to choose a location for the county seat. George Washington Glasscock, Sr., later joined them and offered to donate land he owne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RV_fore-cemetery_Georgetown-TX.html
Wiley Fore and his family came to this area from Alabama in 1883. The Baker community had been started two years earlier by Fore's nephew, Robert Baker, and his family. Soon after his arrival Fore organized the Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Churc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RM_first-united-methodist-church-of-georgetown_Georgetown-TX.html
Founded in 1849 as Georgetown Mission, organized 1874 but still served then by circuit riders. This church acquired a resident pastor in 1879. Original building was erected in 1881-82 on the Southwestern University campus.The present church struct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PX_first-presbyterian-church_Georgetown-TX.html
The Rev. William Mumford Baker presided over this congregation's organization in 1854 at the Round Rock home of Richard and Mary Agnes (Cooper) Sansom. By 1856, the church was meeting in Georgetown, where C.A.D. Clamp deeded a site (at 4th and Myr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K7_farmers-state-bank-building_Georgetown-TX.html
The Merchants and Farmers Bank began in 1898 and incorporated as Farmers State Bank in 1905. In 1910, bank officers contracted for the building of a new bank onto existing commercial property at this site. Construction was finished in 1912. In the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JL_evangelical-free-church_Georgetown-TX.html
Swedish immigrant settlers in Williamson County met together in homes for worship services as early as 1884. In 1891 this congregation was organized in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sven Peterson by 21 charter members. Known as Brushy Evangelical Free …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IX_emzy-taylor_Georgetown-TX.html
Arkansas native Emzy Taylor clerked in his father's Georgetown square mercantile store before serving as a Confederate Captain in the Red River valley during the Civil War. He married Margaret Henderson in 1864 while on furlough and after the war …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HE_easley-home_Georgetown-TX.html
A native of South Carolina, Samuel Allen Easley (1851-1933) came to Texas with his parents at the age of one. They settled on a large amount of acreage along the San Gabriel River in Williamson County. After managing the family farm for much of hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AO_david-love-store_Georgetown-TX.html
South Carolina native David M. Love (1821-1892) was an early settler of Wiliamson County. He was engaged in farming and ranching before moving to Georgetown in the 1860s. A prominent local business leader, he had this Victorian commercial structur…