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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CZ_home-of-ben-leaton_Presidio-TX.html
First Anglo-American farmerin Presidio CountyIn August 1848, Mr. Leaton acquiredthe building and it has sincebeen known as Fort Leaton
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CY_presidio-del-norte_Presidio-TX.html
Proximate site of Presidio del Norte de la Junta established by Captain Alonzo Rubin de Celis in 1759-1760. Name of post retained in part by the present town and county. In this vicinity the missions of San Antonio de los Puliques, San Francisco d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CX_mission-del-apostol-santiago_Presidio-TX.html
Approximate site ofMission del Apostol Santiago
One of nine missions establishedin the Big Bend countryby Father Fray Nicolas Lopez, O.F.M.,and Don Juan Dominguez de Mendozain 1683-1684Maintained by Franciscan missionariesfor the civilizing and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CV_el-fortin-de-san-jose_Presidio-TX.html
About 1773, the Spanish garrison at Presidio del Norte, present Ojinaga, Mexico, established El Fortin de San Jose in this vicinity to protect local farmers. The settlement retained the name after the post was abandoned about 1810. After Ben Leato…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CU_captain-henry-skillman_Presidio-TX.html
Born in Kentucky. Came to Texas before 1846. Was a U. S. Army scout in Mexican War. Established the first mail service from San Antonio to El Paso in 1851. Drove first Butterfield Overland mail coach in 1858 through dangerous Comanche Indian terri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CS_milton-faver_Marfa-TX.html
HereMilton Faverestablished in the fifties the firstAnglo-American owned ranchin the Big BendThree quadrangular adobe fortressessituated at the Big SpringsCibolo, Cienaga and La Moritaserved as a defense againsthostile Apaches
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CR_brooks-cemetery_Marfa-TX.html
George H. Brooks (1833-1911) served in a California volunteer unit during the Civil War before settling in Presidio County in the 1860s. In 1878 he married Mexican native Ygnacia Reza. This cemetery began with the burial of their son, Albion E. Br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CO_milton-faver-ranches_Marfa-TX.html
Milton Faver (ca.1822-1889), a native of the Midwest United States, moved to this area in the 1850s from Presidio del Norte, where he owned a general store and operated a freighting business on the Chihuahua Trail. By the 1880s, Faver controlled v…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CN_milton-faver_Wrens-TX.html
The earliest large-scale cattleman to settle in the Big Bend, Milton (Don Meliton) Faver prospered against seemingly impossible odds to become the first cattle baron west of the Pecos. While operating a freighting business on the Chihuahua Trail, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15CL_presidio_Marfa-TX.html
At confluence of Concho andRio Grande Rivers.A settlement for over 10,000 yearsSite offirst recorded wagon traincrossing into TexasDecember 10, 1582Headed by Antonio de Espejo