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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27JV_mardi-gras-in-galveston_Galveston-TX.html
Mardi Gras was born out of a fifteenth-century European masquerade ball tradition, where guests would wear extravagant costumes and masks to conceal their identities.
The first Mardi Gras celebration in Galveston occurred in 1867 at Turner Hall, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27JU_the-tremont-houses_Galveston-TX.html
The present Tremont House is the third Galveston hotel to bear the name. The island's first Tremont House was built by the firm of McKinney and Williams in 1839 on the southwest corner of Postoffice and Tremont Streets.
An impressive two-story s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20ID_carl-and-hilda-biehl-house_Galveston-TX.html
In 1902, Galveston was still recovering from the most devastating hurricane in recorded history. Many buildings were badly damaged, including the house at 1416 Broadway. In the early 1900s, Carl Christian Biehl immigrated to Galveston from Germany…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V6J_first-home-and-first-family-historical_Friendswood-TX.html
The Frank J. Brown Family, along with the Thomas Hadley Lewis Family, Co-founded this Quaker Settlement in the spring of 1895. By August, Brown had hauled lumber from Alvin and was personally constructing his home on this 10-acre site for his wife…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V5Z_main-street-fig-orchards-historical_Friendswood-TX.html
Beginning about 1910 figs were grown on thousands of acres in a nine-county area 150 miles along the Gulf Coast from Winnie to Bay City and 50 miles inland. That included Friendswood where fig orchards, 5 acres to 500 acres lined the main street a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V5Y_first-business-historical_Friendswood-TX.html
Friendswood's first business a small, general merchandise store, what opened on this site in 1907 by a Quaker from Lowell, Kansas, Cyrus J. Hadley. He and his wife, Elvira, made stables available to the community. Prior to Hadley's store, folks se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UVS_fig-preserving-plant-historical_Friendswood-TX.html
Figs, the life's blood of Friendswood 1910 to circa 1956, were preserved and shipped from this Fig Preserving Plant. This business, opened in 1924 at this site by Quaker Cecil Brown, (son of the founder) was neither the first nor the last local pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UVQ_friendswood-postal-service-historical_Friendswood-TX.html
In 1899 Friendswood recieved postal service. That year 22 year old widow Flora Knode was appointed postmaster, and residents picked up mail from her home. In 1904 Quaker Charles E. Hoover and family moved here from West Branch, Iowa. In 1906 he re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U8X_quaker-academy-historical_Friendswood-TX.html
As Quakers moved westward across America and the end of the 19th century, it was customary to construct an Academy to provide a site for worship and the education of their youth. Constructed by local men, using lumber they milled from trees downed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U8U_oldest-structure-remaining-historical_Friendswood-TX.html
The Nathan and Mary Perry home here at 109 W. Spreading Oaks is the oldest structure remaining from the Quaker Settlement era. No photo of the house has been found. (Old timers memories were called upon to provide data for the restoration.) The ph…