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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DL8_blackberry-community_Plantersville-TX.html
Blackberry Community. . Settlers mostly from the Lower South (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia) settled this part of Grimes County near John's Creek. By the late 19th century, Blackberry became a largely African-American settlement. Most f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DL1_anderson-baptist-church_Anderson-TX.html
Anderson Baptist Church. . Organized November 11, 1844. Baptist General Convention of Texas organized here in 1848. Twenty-three of Texas' thirty-four Baptist churches were represented. Present building was constructed with native rock by slave la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DJ0_st-marys-catholic-church_Plantersville-TX.html
St. Mary's Catholic Church. . The first recorded visit of a Catholic priest to Plantersville occurred in the summer of 1860. Infrequent worship services subsequently were held at the home of James Kelly Markey until the first church building was c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28NG_la-bahia-road_Anderson-TX.html
This short stretch of road is the last remaining local portion of two very important early Texas roads. La Bahia Road (early 1700's) was an old Spanish military road that forked southwesterly from the Old San Antonio Road west of Nacogdoches, to P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28N4_veterans-memorial_Anderson-TX.html
Front:
In memory of
Colonel Benjamin Fort Smith,
Dr. Robert C. Neblett, Veterans of
The War of 1812
Colonel Benjamin F. Smith
Veteran of the Black Hawk War, 1832
Jared E. Groce, Joshua Hadley
William Robinson, delegates to the
First Conve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MQ_michael-moore-kennard_Anderson-TX.html
Born in Tennessee. In 1828 he and family joined Robertson's Colony, bound for Texas. Arrived in 1830, probably having stopped to "make a crop" along the way.
Lived in present Grimes County; was granted a third of a league of land in Robertson's C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MP_fanthorp-inn_Anderson-TX.html
Built in 1834 by Henry Fanthorp as a home for his bride, Rachel Kennard. Enlarged for hotel purpose. Served as first mercantile establishment and first post office (1835) in the region. Here Kenneth Lewis Anderson, Vice-President of the Republic o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28LW_kenneth-lewis-anderson_Anderson-TX.html
Front:
Erected by the State of Texas
in memory of
Kenneth Lewis Anderson
Born in Hillsboro, North Carolina, Sept. 11, 1805
District Judge, Speaker of the House of the Sixth Congress
and last Vice President of the Republic of Texas
Died July…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244E_grimes-county-courthouse_Anderson-TX.html
Unique Victorian Texas public building. Third courthouse here. Site, in an 1824 land grant from Mexico, was donated 1850 by Henry Fanthorp, first permanent settler in county.
Built 1891 of hand-molded brick with native stone trim. Vault is same…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244D_in-memory-of-jesse-grimes-and-mathew-caldwell_Anderson-TX.html
Mathew Caldwell was called Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution. Caldwell's daughters Lucy Ann and Martha Elizabeth came to Grimes County from Gonzales. Martha E. Married Isham Dixon Davis and settled N. Grimes County at Mesa, near Iola, by 1846. R…