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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZNC_texas-city-terminal-railway-company_Texas-City-TX.html
Minnesota investors and brothers Jacob R. and Henry H. Myers and Augustus B. Wolvin formed the Texas City Improvement Company in 1893 and developed a port facility and townsite here. By 1897 the company had built a rail spur line linking its port …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZN8_propeller-of-the-ss-highflyer_Texas-City-TX.html
The SS Highflyer exploded in the Main Slip on 4-17-1947 after being set on fire by the SS Grandchamp which exploded in the North Slip on 4-16-1947. It is dedicated in memory of those who died and in honor of those who survived to make Texas City a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZLI_the-moody-home_Galveston-TX.html
Family residence, W.L. Moody, Jr, built about 1894, and for many years home of Mr. Moody prominent financier and philanthropist who established the Moody Foundation.
Late Victorian architecture, said to have been Texas residence built on steel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZKE_booker-t-washington-school_Texas-City-TX.html
Public education for African American students in Texas City began in 1915. The Texas City Independent School District hired Mrs. J. R. McKellar to teach the students; classes were held in churches and lodge halls until 1937, when the district pur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZKD_first-baptist-church-of-texas-city_Texas-City-TX.html
On March 16, 1905, five Texas City residents met for worship and Bible study. The Rev. D.L. Griffith assisted them in founding Texas City's First Baptist Church. The Rev. W.C. Ponder served as pastor for the first decade, during which time service…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZIO_texas-city_Texas-City-TX.html
This community traces its origin to settlement by a few families along the bayshore in the mid-1800s. Completion in 1854 of the Half Moon Shoal Lighthouse, a Federal project near the present day Texas City Dike, hastened the formation of a village…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZI5_la-marque_La-Marque-TX.html
The land in this area, initially known as Highland Bayou, was part of a Republic of Texas land grant awarded to John D. Moore in 1838. The Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railroad linked Galveston and Houston by 1860, and Highland Bayou, directl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZHR_galilee-missionary-baptist-church_Hitchcock-TX.html
The first African-American families moved to Hitchcock in 1892, and by 1900 additional families had joined them. Many would form the nucleus of the Galilee Missionary Baptist Church when it was organized in 1901. The Rev. J. L. Luckett served as f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZHN_city-of-hitchcock_Hitchcock-TX.html
In region held before 1820s by Karankawa Indians, and afterwards by cattle raisers. The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway built through the area in 1870s, naming station for Galveston civic leader and late landowner, Lent Munson Hitchcock (1810-18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFT_hitchcock-depot_Santa-Fe-TX.html
According to local oral tradition, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad (GCSF) gained a vital right-of-way through Emily Hitchcock's property in 1875 by agreeing to establish a depot named for her deceased husband, Lent Munson Hitchcock. GCSF pl…