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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMD_sixth-street_Austin-TX.html
Originally named Pecan Street on Edwin Waller's 1839 plan for Austin, Sixth Street served as a farm to market road entering the city from the east. Bringing together a diverse ethnic population, it became a center for Austin's 19th century develop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMC_john-hawkins-singleton_Austin-TX.html
Served in the Army of Texas, 1836, the Army of the United States in the Mexican War, 1846, the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. Born in Kentucky June 25, 1818. Died in Ellis County, Texas August 3, 1884.
His wife Rebecca Ann (Barker) Singleton. Bor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM9_simpson-united-methodist-church_Austin-TX.html
This congregation grew from an early Sunday school class directed by Annas Brown, Richard Dukes and Mrs. Vina Harris Forehand, Members of Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, for residents of the far eastern section of Austin. In December 188…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM7_the-shipe-house_Austin-TX.html
Monroe Martin Shipe (b. 1847) had this residence built in 1892 in Austin's Hyde Park, a suburb which he developed on the site of the old state fairgrounds. A man of broad vision, Shipe brought innovative changes to the city's form of government, i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM5_scholz-garten_Austin-TX.html
German immigrant August Scholz (1825-1891) opened Scholz's Hall at this site in 1866. About the turn of the century, this building replaced the original hall. A German social club, the Austin Saengerrunde, purchased the property in 1908 and added …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLE_j-p-schneider-store_Austin-TX.html
In the mid-1860s, shortly after the Civil War, Jacob Peter "Jake" Schneider (1852-1925) began working in William Brueggerhoff's general mercantile store, and part-time as a legislative page in the Capitol. About 1870, he and his mother, Margarita …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLD_george-w-sampson-home_Austin-TX.html
Former Confederate Army Captain and leading Austin merchant George W. Sampson (1825-88) married Mary Goodwin Hall (b. 1845), niece of Gov. Edmund J. Davis. Their wedding in 1872 was the first held in the Governor's Mansion. In 1875 the Sampsons bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLC_saint-marys-cathedral_Austin-TX.html
In 1851, the Catholics of Austin wrote to the Most Rev. John M. Odin (1801-1871), first Bishop of Texas. "This city is improving rapidly and our intentions are to build a church?if we can get a clergyman to stay among us." Father Michael Sheehan w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLB_st-john-church_Pflugerville-TX.html
German settlers who came to Richland community in the 1860s worshiped originally in private homes. Nineteen charter members, under leadership of the Rev. G. Haehnelt, organized the St. John German Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1878. Church land w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLA_saint-edwards-university-main-building_Austin-TX.html
Erected in 1888. Rebuilt after fire in 1903. Nicholas J. Clayton, master architect, designed both building in Gothic revival style.
Serves institution founded in 1873 by congregation of Holy Cross, as male catholic school. First pupils were loc…