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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOU_the-academy_Austin-TX.html
This house was constructed in 1889 for Myron D. Mather, president of Austin Water, Light & Power Company, who lived here until 1893. A fine derivative of the shingle style, the structure is said to be partly constructed of granite left from the 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOS_reuter-house_Austin-TX.html
Built in 1934 for Louis Reuter (1886-1945) and his wife, this house offered a spectacular view of the city. Reuter worked as a grocer in his native San Antonio until 1918, when he came to Austin to open a self-service grocery store, an innovation …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJOF_walter-and-mae-simms-house_Austin-TX.html
Austin architect Roger Q. Small designed this unique 1935 home for Walter and Mae (Moore) Simms, who established Simms Fish Market in 1915 and delivered gulf coast seafood to hotels and restaurants throughout central Texas for nearly forty years. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3U_shoal-creek_Austin-TX.html
Native Americans, settlers and cattle drovers crossed the river here where Shoal Creek's sand made the water shallow. During Republic days Vice President Mirabeau Lamar camped here, near the village of Waterloo while hunting buffalo. His impress…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHT0_site-of-temporary-texas-state-capitol-of-1880s_Austin-TX.html
Built, 1882-1883, to replace the previous Capitol, which had burned in 1881. Until the building was completed, the orphaned Texas government conducted business in the county courthouse and jail across Congress avenue.
The three-story brick buil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHSZ_sailor-from-the-belle-shipwreck_Austin-TX.html
Buried here are the remains of a 17th-century sailor who was a member of an ill-fated 1684-87 French expedition to the new world led by Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Texas Historical Commission archaeologists discovered the skeleton on Octob…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHSY_roberts-teague-cemetery_Austin-TX.html
In the 1860s, the Roberts and Teague families came to the Bee Cave area where, for generations, their skills as farmers, ranchers, cedar choppers, coal kiln burners, and homemakers helped to shape its development and culture. It is said that this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHSA_moses-austin_Austin-TX.html
The initiator of Anglo-American settlement in Texas. Moses Austin was a native of Durham, Connecticut. After his marriage to Mary Brown in 1785, Austin became a leading figure in the development of the American lead industry. His business took him…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHS8_lockwood-cemetery_Manor-TX.html
This cemetery was set aside out of land settled by Gordon C. Jennings (1782-1836), his wife, Catherine (1790-1867), and four children who came from Missouri in 1833 as part of Stephen F. Austin's "Little Colony." Gordon was the oldest defender to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHS7_live-oak-cemetery_Manchaca-TX.html
The original four-acre section of this cemetery included land donated by James M. Turley (1856-83) and Andrew Jackson Hammett (1829-1907). the oldest grave is that of Turley's daughter, Tennessee Belle Hart, and her baby, who died on Aug. 27,1874.…