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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHNF_william-steele_Austin-TX.html
Born New York. Graduate West Point. In Seminole and Mexican Wars. Resigned U.S. Army to serve Confederacy. Colonel 7th Texas Cavalry. In New Mexico campaign 1862. Earned promotion to Brigadier General. Commander Indian Territory 1863 and Galveston…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHNE_texas-and-the-civil-war-state-military-board_Austin-TX.html
The only new agency created by the legislature to deal with wartime emergencies. Original members were the Governor, Comptroller and Treasurer. The last two in 1864 were replaced by appointees of the Governor.
Purpose was to establish industry …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHNC_state-cemetery-of-texas_Austin-TX.html
Burial ground for the honored dead of Texas, this cemetery contains the remains of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas"; nine Governors of Texas (as of 1968); and representatives of every period of state history and every department of state g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHNA_state-bar-of-texas_Austin-TX.html
On July 15, 1882, a volunteer organization of Texas attorneys known as the Texas Bar Association was established in Galveston, with Judge Thomas J. Devine as the first president. The forerunner of the State Bar of Texas, the group met annually to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHN6_st-stephens-missionary-baptist-church_Austin-TX.html
Organized in 1887, this congregation first met in a small wooden building near this site. The Rev. Stephens Smith served as first pastor of the church, which served residents of the Waters Park, Round Rock, and Pflugerville communities. Land for a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMK_southwestern-telegraph-telephone-building_Austin-TX.html
Veteran Travis County official and historian Frank Brown (1833-1913) erected this structure in 1886. Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company bought and restyled the building in 1898. Architect A.O. Watson designed the ornate fa?ade. Previously …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMJ_southgate-lewis-house_Austin-TX.html
Local bookbinder and printer John Southgate had this house built for his family in 1888. The High Victorian structure features a bay window, second-floor bands of shingles, and distinctive window surrounds. Businessman Charles Lewis (1872-1922) pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMI_smith-clark-smith-house_Austin-TX.html
When the State Capitol burned in 1881, Scottish-born James Baird Smith (1843-1907) cleared the site and erected a temporary statehouse nearby. Salvaged brick and stone, which he used to build this rent house about 1886, probably came from the burn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMG_henry-smith_Austin-TX.html
Henry Smith (1788-1851) immersed himself in public affairs soon after arriving in Texas in 1827. Initially a local political leader in what is now Brazoria County, he was appointed in 1835 as a delegate to the San Felipe Consultation, which met to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMF_old-b-j-smith-property_Austin-TX.html
Purchased from State of Texas at auction in 1853, by Smith, a school proprietor. Structure, one of the better early homes in Austin, was probably built in the 1850's.
Handmade hardware, doors, and other structural parts reveal fine workmanship.