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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14H4_augustus-chapman-allen_Houston-TX.html
Augustus Chapman Allen was born to Roland and Sarah (Chapman) Allen in Canaseraga, New York on July 4, 1806. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute at Chittenango, New York, where he taught mathematics until 1827. That year, he became a bookk…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GI_origins-of-freedmans-town_Houston-TX.html
Located in Houston's Fourth Ward, the original Freedman's Town settlement was founded soon after the emancipation of enslaved blacks on June 19, 1865, at the end of the Civil War in Texas. Positioned west of downtown and directly south of Buffalo …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GH_houston-cotton-exchange-and-board-of-trade_Houston-TX.html
Founded in 1874 to facilitate trade in the expanding cotton market. This Victorian renaissance revival edifice, designed by Eugene T. Heiner, was built in 1884-85 by contractors Max Kosse and James S. Lucas. The exchange room and galleries were si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GD_harris-county_Houston-TX.html
Inhabited during the 17th century by Karankawa and Orcoquiza Indians, and considered in 1756 by Spain for site of Presidio de San Agustin de Ahumada, this region was settled permanently in 1822 by the colonists of Stephen F. Austin. In 1824 John R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13OG_ellington-field_Houston-TX.html
In 1917, during World War I, the Houston Chamber of Commerce lobbied the federal government to establish an air field here. Named for Lt. Eric Lamar Ellington, an Illinois aviator killed in a California plane crash in 1913, it opened in November 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZRV_sam-houston-park-monument_Houston-TX.html
Spirit of the ConfederacyErected by the Robert E Lee N. 186 U.D.C.January 1908To all the heroes of the South that fought for the principles of States rights.
Monument CommitteeJulia H Franklin, Bettie P. Mutcheson, Ella H. Sydnor, Marion S. Hol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYWL_safety-follows-wisdom_Houston-TX.html
Portland Cement AssociationSafety Trophy AwardTrinity Portland Cement CompanyHouston Texas Plant for a Perfect Safety Record in 1929Reawarded for a Perfect Safety Record in1945, 1947, 1959
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGF_moore-log-house_Houston-TX.html
In 1931-32 Edith L. Moore and her husband built this house of pine logs they cut from their land. The stone fireplace and chimney were built of sandstone curbstones salvaged from downtown Houston. Dairy farming and logging provided their livelihoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXUJ_site-of-lubbock-ranch_Houston-TX.html
Texas statesman Francis Richard Lubbock (1815-1905) owned a 1300-acre ranch near this site. A native of South Carolina, Lubbock came to Houston in 1837. He soon opened a general store and was a business, political and civic leader. He served as cl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTQ_the-roberts-hanson-house_Houston-TX.html
This farmhouse was built about 1895 on Galveston Bay in Kemah by Clarence Roberts and his mother, Susan Lamb Roberts, both of whom had moved to Texas from Minnesota.
The 1900 storm blew the house off its foundation after which it was moved abou…