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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2826_robstown-record_Robstown-TX.html
The Robstown Record began serving the Robstown community and surrounding areas in 1919, when M.L. Dale and his wife, Myrtle, began to print the paper. At the time, Robstown did not have a newspaper; the community's first new periodical, the Robsto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM280U_george-h-paul-building-site_Robstown-TX.html
Robstown began in 1903 at the merger point of the Texas-Mexican and the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroads. The town grew rapidly after the arrival of land developer George H. Paul. He organized the George H. Paul Land Co., acquired about…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27OJ_violet-texas_Robstown-TX.html
In commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of Texas' independence, Violet, Texas was recognized and sanctioned as an independent sesquicentennial community by the State of Texas and by the County of Nueces.
Special recognition is given to the fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27OI_old-saint-anthonys-catholic-church_Robstown-TX.html
In Nov. 1909, the Rev. J. Goebels called a meeting to organize St. Anthony's parish for the recently settled German Catholic farm families in the community of Land Siding, later known as Violet. Louis Petrus donated five acres for a church site, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27OH_sie-sind-willkommen_Robstown-TX.html
Settlement founded in 1908 by German settlers · Church founded as a mission in 1910 and a public school until 1912 · Rectory built in 1912 and used as a second school until 1918 · Church was remodeled in 1919 and moved t…