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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18IC_site-of-the-home-of-randal-jones_Richmond-TX.html
Member of the Long's Expedition in1819. Captain of militia underAustin in 1824. Member of the GeneralConsultation, 1835. Onthis land granted him in 1824 hebuilt the house in which "Deaf"Smith died, November 30, 1837.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYT_texas-prison-system-central-state-farm-main-building_Sugar-Land-TX.html
Central State Farm's roots trace to the late 1870s, when the original 5235 acres of the sugar plantation here were worked by convict labor. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, public sentiment largely supported a self-sustaining prison system, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIH8_staffords-point_Stafford-TX.html
One of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300," William J. Stafford (1764-1840), founded the settlement of Stafford's Point on the 6819.7-acre land grant he received in the winter of 1824. Bringing his family and slaves from his Louisiana sugar plantation, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGU_sugar-land-refinery_Sugar-Land-TX.html
The center of the sugar industry from Texas colonial days and the site of the first sugar refinery in Texas located by S. M. Williams on land granted to him by the Mexican government.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGF_dismounted-texas-cavalry_Richmond-TX.html
The 95,000 men of military age in Civil War Texas, unaccustomed to walking, preferred the daring and mobility of the cavalry used to scout the enemy, screen troop movements and make lightning attacks. 58,533 Texans joined it, riding their own hors…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGE_hodges-bend-cemetery-white-lake-cemetery_Sugar-Land-TX.html
A veteran of "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion's South Carolina brigade during the American Revolution,Alexander Hodge (b. 1760) brought his family to Texas in 1825. Hodge was prominent among the "Old Three Hundred" settlers; his sons fought in the Texas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF11_morton-cemetery_Richmond-TX.html
Burial place of illustrious pioneers, including 1838-1841 Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798-1859) and one of State's first women settlers, Jane Long (1798-1880), known as ""The Mother of Texas.""
On Labor No. 1 of Mexican land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM969_kendleton_Beasley-TX.html
Kendleton was originally a large plantation area of land in the western section of Fort Bend County. During the Reconstruction Era, free Negroes from Colorado and Washington Counties developed a colony of 100-acre plots. Having relocated several t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QX_powell-point-school_Beasley-TX.html
William E. Kendall, an Anglo lawyer from Richmond, Texas, subdivided his plantation here into 100-acre farm tracts in 1869. He sold the land exclusively to Freedmen and by the 1880s a distinctly African American community named Kendleton had devel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CW_kendleton_Kendleton-TX.html
The site on which Kendleton now stands was originally a Mexican land grant to settler Elizabeth Powell, whose house was an early-day stage stop.
During the Texas Revolution, in 1836, Santa Anna's Mexican Army camped near here. Later the settle…