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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXUV_mainland-mission-churches_League-City-TX.html
In 1869, the Diocese of Galveston perceived the need for a church on the mainland to serve Roman Catholics. The following year St. Mary began in Hitchcock, and a mission church also established in 1870, named St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXUT_st-mary-mission-church_League-City-TX.html
Beginning in the late 19th century, League City's Catholic residents gathered in homes for Mass and other services. As the population grew, so did the need for a church. J.C. League deeded land to the Diocese of Galveston, and parishioners of St. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXUS_first-baptist-church_League-City-TX.html
First Baptist church on Galveston County mainland; organized in Clear Creek Schoolhouse, Dec. 4, 1887. B. A. Smalley served as clerk. First permanent pastor was the Rev. D. T. McLeod, Oct. 1895. First building erected on this site was dedicated Ju…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXUR_t-j-and-mary-lelia-dick-house_League-City-TX.html
Thomas Jackson and Mary Lelia (Sherman) Dick lived on their north Galveston County "Buckhorn Ranch" for many years before hiring J. R. Beerwort and O. V. King to build this house in 1904. It is a good example of a two-story center passage plan wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTY_evergreen-cemetery_Santa-Fe-TX.html
In 1890 Henry J. Runge laid out the town of Arcadia at the site of a railroad depot on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad near here known as Hall's Station. Sometime between 1890 and 1897, Evergreen Cemetery was established to serve the grow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTL_galveston-county-early-history_Galveston-TX.html
General Xavier Mina, hoping to establish a settlement at what is now the Galveston County mainland, arrived and set up breastworks at Virginia Point in 1816.
Between 1815 and 1817, three leaders of expeditions against Spanish Mexico, Mina, Henr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTK_galveston-county-1901-1965_Galveston-TX.html
After 1900 the Port of Galveston emerged as the second largest in the United States. Following completion of a deep water channel to Texas City in 1904, the mainland's major petroleum petro-chemical plants, tin smelter and allied industries, had t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTJ_texas-revolution-and-civil-war_Galveston-TX.html
Following Laffite's expulsion from Galveston, settlers from the West Indies began to arrive. Within a few years, Galveston became principal port to the Republic of Texas.
Galveston was declared a Port of Entry in 1825 by Mexico and a customs h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTI_exploration-of-galveston_Galveston-TX.html
The first recorded history of Galveston Island occurred in 1528 with the shipwreck of Cabeza de Vaca and his crewmen. They were survivors of Alvarez de Pineda's ill-fated expediton to Florida and were held captive here by the Karankawa Indians. De…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXSU_the-wilbur-cherry-house_Galveston-TX.html
New York native Wilbur Cherry (1819-1873), a veteran of the Texas Revolution, had this two-story home built about 1852. A pioneer Texas newspaperman, Cherry had earlier helped establish a local paper, now the Galveston Daily News. His residence, o…