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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH48_buddington-benedict-sheffield-compound_Austin-TX.html
Albert and Rebecca Buddington built the first part of this compound as their home c. 1860. In 1921, it became the home of Dr. Harry Y. Benedict, a mathematician who served as University of Texas Professor and President. Delia Edwards, a later owne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH40_j-l-buaas-building_Austin-TX.html
Norwegian immigrant John L. Buaas moved to Austin in 1839 and in 1872 was appointed city alderman by reconstruction Governor E.J. Davis. In 1875 he built a mercantile store here. The two-story Italianate commercial structure was designed with two …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3Z_brizendine-house_Austin-TX.html
This simple Vernacular Rough Ashlar house represents the life style of the late 19th century working middle class family in Austin. The exterior proportions of the structure reflect Victorian influence. Built of limestone about 1870 by John R. Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3Y_brackenridge-hospital_Austin-TX.html
When Edwin Waller surveyed the Austin townsite in 1839, he set aside this block, in what was then the northeast corner of the city, for a hospital. The site lay empty until 1884, when the City of Austin and Travis County jointly opened a 20-bed, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3X_the-boardman-webb-house_Austin-TX.html
In the 1850s Dr. George T. Boardman (d.1884) came to Austin to practice dentistry. He developed a new process to fill teeth and helped incorporate the American Dental College. He bought this property in 1855 from early Austin merchant John Bremond…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3W_bloor-house_Manor-TX.html
Local rancher and farmer Alfred Sutton Bloor (1850-1899) and his wife Martha (Wainwright) (1849-1928), natives of Pennsylvania, built this home in 1897-98. Constructed by the Elgin Press Brick Co., the house features characteristics of the Queen A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3V_blackshear-elementary-school_Austin-TX.html
Blackshear Elementary School opened in 1891 to provide free public education to African-American children in the community then known as Gregory Town, Blackshear Elementary School was known in earlier years as School No. 3, Gregory Town School and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3U_capt-jesse-billingsley_Austin-TX.html
A soldier in the Army of Texas, 1835. Commander of Company C. First Regiment, Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto. Member of the 1st and 2nd Congresses of the Republic. Participated in the Woll Campaign, 1842. Member of the Senate, 5th and 8th Legisla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3T_bethany-cemetery_Austin-TX.html
This cemetery was established in the late 1800s when burial space set aside for African Americans in Austin's historic Oakwood Cemetery was no longer available. The oldest recorded burial is that of infant Hellen Moore in 1879. C. W. Jones purchas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH3P_barton-springs_Austin-TX.html
Clear and icy, these springs over the years have drawn Indians, pioneers, and tourists to this spot. The waters are brought from the limestone strata to the surface by the Balcones Fault, which bisects Central Texas. Average flow is 27,000,000 gal…