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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZR_old-red_Texas-City-TX.html
First, and originally the only, building of University of Texas Medical Branch. Master architect Nicholas J. Clayton designed the massive Romanesque structure. It was dedicated October 5, 1891. Although rooms were almost devoid of equipment, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KJ4_jane-herbert-wilkinson-long_Bolivar-Peninsula-TX.html
Born in Charles County, Maryland, Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long was a Texas pioneer. She married James Long in 1815, and joined him in Texas during his military invasion of the then-Spanish colony, settling in Nacogdoches. The occupation was unsucce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KJ3_bolivar-point_Bolivar-Peninsula-TX.html
In 1815 Colonel Henry Perry established a military camp here as part of a plan to invade Spanish Texas. In 1816 Galveston-based privateer Louis-Michel de Aury forced shiploads of captured African slaves to walk from this point to New Orleans along…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HNF_fort-san-jacinto_Galveston-TX.html
The northeastern tip of Galveston Island has seen defense fortifications since the early 1800's. Crude Spanish and French forts (1816-1818) gave way to small sand forts and batteries constructed by the Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1844. In 1863 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HNE_rollover-fish-pass_TX.html
A strait approximately 200 feet wide, 5 feet deep and more than 1,600 feet long across Bolivar Peninsula - was opened in 1955 by the Texas Game and Fish Commission as part of its continuing program to perpetuate and improve the state's fish and wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GW6_settlement-community_Texas-City-TX.html
During Reconstruction former slaves founded a community known as the Settlement on land platted by Judge William J. Jones for purchase by freedmen. Prior to this, a number of cattlemen moved to this area with their slaves. During the Civil War, Ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GT6_jack-johnson_Galveston-TX.html
Galveston native Arthur John "Jack" Johnson (1878-1946) was the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. He grew up in Galveston's East East and honed his fighting skills working on the wharves. During the 1900 storm, Johnson help…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GNL_juneteenth_Galveston-TX.html
Commemorated annually on June 19th, Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on Sep. 22, 1862, announced, "That on the 1st day of January. A.D. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EV1_fairview-cemetery_League-City-TX.html
Five-month-old Victor Nordhem was laid to rest in February 1900, on land bought by Alison J. Adams for an individual burial plot. In 1908, Adams deeded additional acreage to the Fairview Cemetery Association. Decoration Day, later Memorial Day, wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CL2_bernardo-de-galvez_Galveston-TX.html
Supported the American Revolution by defeating the British along the Gulf Coast. He had Texas Longhorn cattle driven to Louisiana to aid his campaign - thus giving Texas a connection with the American Revolution.
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