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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4L_congress-avenue_Austin-TX.html
In his original 1839 plan for the capital city, Edwin Waller, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and Austin's first Mayor, designed Congress Avenue as Austin's most prominent street. Known for many years as "The Avenue", the street ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4J_clarksville_Austin-TX.html
Historic black neighborhood. Settled in 1871 when Charles Clark, a freedman, bought two acres of land on present Tenth Street. This formed the nucleus of the community that Clark, according to tradition, wanted to start for his people.
For year…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4H_central-christian-church_Austin-TX.html
In 1847, Eight years after the City of Austin was platted, ten members of the Disciples of Christ Brotherhood met to organize this congregation. Although early records of the church are scarce, it is known that regular worship services were being …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4G_cementerio-mexicano-de-maria-de-la-luz_Austin-TX.html
Tradition holds that a family passing through the area in 1912 buried a child, Maria de la Luz, at this site. In August of that year, A. Donley, A.C. Rodriguez and S. Galvan bought the land for use as a Mexican cemetery. In the 1940s, a fire set t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4F_daniel-h-caswell-house_Austin-TX.html
Daniel H. Caswell came to Austin from Nashville, Tennessee, about 1895. He purchased a cotton oil manufacturing company, bought and sold cotton, and in 1899 built a cotton gin. When completed for his family in 1900, this house was located in the f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4E_lilia-and-josephine-casis_Austin-TX.html
Josephine (1873-1947) and Lilia (1869-1947) Casis were reared in Jamaica, where their European parents educated them in the classics, languages, and music, before they moved to Texas in 1890. Josephine earned a teaching degree and taught at Austin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4C_george-washington-carver-branch-library_Austin-TX.html
In Feb. 1926 the Austin Public Library opened in a room over a downtown store. Within months, the books were moved to this structure, built at Guadalupe and Ninth St., across from Wooldridge Park. In 1933, with completion of a permanent library fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4B_carrington-covert-house_Austin-TX.html
Leonidas D. Carrington (1816-97) and his wife, Martha Hill Carrington (1824-59), came to Austin from Mississippi in 1852. He began to accumulate real estate and on Sept. 15, 1853, bought this block from James M.W. Hall, Austin hotelman, and ten da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4A_camp-mabry_Austin-TX.html
The original 85-acre tract (gift of Austin citizens in 1892) was the site of annual encampments for the Texas Volunteer Guard, an elite militia constituted in 1876. Because larger maneuver, parade, and drill areas were needed, the guardsmen worked…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH49_buen-retiro_Austin-TX.html
Colonial Revival mansion built 1902 by Austin financier Louis Nicholas Goldbeck. Sold 1908 to Texas Association of Phi Gamma Delta, national fraternity first chartered in Texas in 1856.
Housing Tau Deuteron Chapter, this has been campus residen…