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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFC_alta-loma_Santa-Fe-TX.html
Traveling west from the Gulf of Mexico the land rises gradually and becomes Alta Loma (Spanish for high land) in this area of Galveston County. In 1893 the Alta Loma Investment and Improvement Company platted a townsite here along a Gulf, Colorado…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFB_dairy-industry-in-the-santa-fe-area_Santa-Fe-TX.html
The railroad communities of Arcadia, Alta Loma, and Algoa, established in the 1890s, formed the nucleus of the Santa Fe area at the turn of the 20th century. Citrus and fig production, truck farming, and a burgeoning daily industry dominated the l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFA_first-baptist-church-of-alta-loma_Santa-Fe-TX.html
Original site of oldest church in Alta Loma; second oldest Baptist church on Galveston mainland. Organized on Nov. 10, 1895, in a local hotel; 26 charter members.
Established Arcadia Baptist Church, 1945. Purchased "U. S. S. Houston" Memorial …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF9_arcadia-christian-church_Santa-Fe-TX.html
The town of Arcadia was established on the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad in 1890. This church was organized in 1894 and represents the oldest surviving church in the community. Initial services were held by the Rev. T. Patterson in a build…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF8_runge-park_Santa-Fe-TX.html
Galveston businessman Henry J. Runge (1859-1922), European-educated son of a German immigrant, bought the land and laid out the town of Arcadia in 1890. At that time he donated this site for use as a park. Later the Galveston County Commissioners …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYXW_first-united-methodist-church_Dickinson-TX.html
In 1876 a group of Methodists led by the Rev. P.E. Nicholson began meeting in private homes in the Dickinson area. In 1885 a frame building was erected for use as a church and school.
The Dickinson congregation does not appear in official denom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYOI_holy-trinity-episcopal-church_Dickinson-TX.html
In the fall of 1899, a small group of Episcopalians living in Dickinson petitioned the Rt. Rev. George H. Kinsolving, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, to send a priest to minister to them. Bishop Kinsolving sent the Rev. A.J. Burnett, pri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYNB_the-dickinson-station-of-the-galveston-houston-henderson-railroad-co_Dickinson-TX.html
Chartered by the State of Texas on February 7, 1853, the Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railroad was the first railroad to reach the Texas Coast. A trestle was built across Galveston Bay in 1859, and passenger and freight service was initiated …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYM7_victor-gustafson-home_Galveston-TX.html
This raised one-story cottage originally was located at 620 Market Street. Before the property was purchased by Victor Gustafson in 1895, it had belonged to Swiss immigrant Henry Rosenburg, who is remembered as a prominent businessman and public b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLL_carmelo-charles-bertolino_Galveston-TX.html
Born in Galveston in 1887, Carmelo Bertolino was the son of Salvatore Bertolino (d.1891) and Rosalia Trapani Bertolino (d.1942), who immigrated to Texas from Palermo, Italy in the early 1880s. Salvatore Bertolino drowned in Galveston Bay when Carm…