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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11N7_the-bishops-palace_Galveston-TX.html
Built, 1886-1893, by Col. Walter Gresham, civic leader and U.S. Congressman. Nicholas J. Clayton was architect. One of the most lavish and massive homes in U.S., house is a Victorian adaptation of renaissance style. Silver and onyx mantel in mu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11N6_c-f-marschner-building_Galveston-TX.html
Erected in 1905-06 by local contractor Otto Haase, this building housed the Texas Bottling Works and the family residence of C. F. and Marie Marschner. Shortly before the completion of the building, C. F. Marschner died. His widow inherited the bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11N5_former-site-of-heidenheimers-castle_Galveston-TX.html
In 1857 John S. Sydnor (1812-1869), former Galveston mayor, built the original two-story, eight-room structure at this site. Samson Heidenheimer (1834-1891) bought it in 1884. The German-born Heidenheimer began with a $100 loan and built a fortune…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11N2_american-national-insurance-company_Galveston-TX.html
Founded in 1905 by Galveston business pioneer W. L. Moody, Jr. (1865-1954), American National opened for business on third floor of the Moody Building at 22nd and Strand streets in Galveston. At that time the home office staff numbered ten. By 191…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10II_kemah_Kemah-TX.html
Michael Gouldrich, one of Stephen F. Austin's original three hundred colonists, received a Mexican land grant here in 1824. Elizabeth S. Justice acquired a part of the property in 1853. By the early 1890s Abraham and Elizabeth (Justice) Kipp, thei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZW1_cecil-and-frances-brown-house_Friendswood-TX.html
Designed by Houston architect Henry A. Stubee and built in 1938, this was the home of local civic, church, and business leader Cecil Brown and his wife Frances. Both were from pioneer Quaker families. Mr. Brown was prominent in the Gulf Coast fig …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZW0_friends-church-cemetery_Friendswood-TX.html
In 1895, six families left the disbanded Quaker settlement of Estacado in the Lubbock area and moved to Galveston County. Here, they established the community of Friendswood, named in honor of their faith and association with the Society of Friend…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZVU_the-fig-industry-in-friendswood_Friendswood-TX.html
Friendswood was established as a Quaker colony by Frank J. Brown and Thomas H. Lewis in 1895. Among the colony's early settlers was former Kansas farmer Nereus Stout. Stout became a highly acclaimed horticulturist and is believed to be the first f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZP0_st-patrick-catholic-church_Galveston-TX.html
Galveston Bishop C.M. Dubus established this parish in 1870 to serve Catholics in Galveston Island's fast-growing west end district. A wood sanctuary was built at this site and the mostly Irish congregation named the church for St. Patrick, the pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZND_the-texas-city-disaster_Texas-City-TX.html
On April 16, 1947, three ships—the "Grandcamp", the "High Flyer", and the "Wilson B. Keene"—were docked in the Texas City port. They were loaded with cargo, including ammonium nitrate fertilizer, bound for Europe to assist in the Post-…
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