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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GU8_old-dougherty-house_Mathis-TX.html
Location of noted St. Paul's Academy for Boys. Home of school owner Robert Dougherty (1827-1881), a refugee from 1840s Irish famine.
Educated at St. Mary's College, Kentucky, Dougherty worked as a journalist and merchant before settling in Texas,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FHQ_odem-building_Sinton-TX.html
The Sinton townsite company was organized in 1894 to promote the development of the new railroad town of Sinton. Local merchant David Odem, one of the founders of the townsite company, established himself as a prominent landowner and businessman i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZD_taft-agricultural-industrial-complex_Taft-TX.html
The Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company laid out the town of Taft on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad line in 1900. The intention of the company directors was to present Taft and surrounding farms as a model community to attract northern inves…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXP_meansville-and-kaleta_Odem-TX.html
Meansville(3 miles southeast)Col. William Marshall Means, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, came to San Patricio County with his family in the 1850s and settled southeast of present Odem. Means was county sheriff from 1862 to 1867. The cente…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLMX_early-odem-area-schools_Odem-TX.html
As population increased in south central San Patricio County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, independent schools were established in a number of communities, serving students in isolated areas before the construction of a good road syst…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLMK_white-point-rosita_Odem-TX.html
Native American tribes occupied land in this vicinity before Spanish explorers claimed the region in the 18th Century. Anglo American settlers began arriving in the area in the 1830s, and in 1856 brothers, Frank and Eddie White purchased land here…