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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXUE_wooster-school_Baytown-TX.html
Constructed in 1895-96 by Quincy Adams Wooster and Junius Brown, this building originally served as a schoolhouse and community gathering place for the Wooster community. It became a part of the Goose Creek School System in 1919. The structure was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXU8_seito-and-kiyoaki-saibara_Webster-TX.html
Seito Saibara (1861-1939), former president of Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and first Christian member of the Japanese Diet (Parliament). Arrived in the United States in 1901 to study theology, and with the desire to establish a Japanese c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXU3_harris-county-boys-school-archeological-site_Seabrook-TX.html
In this vicinity lies evidence of a prehistoric Indian campsite and burial ground that takes its current name from the property on which it resided at the time of its discovery. The archeological site is classified as a shell midden site because o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXTQ_the-roberts-hanson-house_Houston-TX.html
This farmhouse was built about 1895 on Galveston Bay in Kemah by Clarence Roberts and his mother, Susan Lamb Roberts, both of whom had moved to Texas from Minnesota. The 1900 storm blew the house off its foundation after which it was moved abou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTE9_de-zavala-plaza_Channelview-TX.html
Name honors Lorenzo De Zavala, Vice President of Republic of Texas (Ad Interim, March 17-Oct. 17 1836) Born in Yucatan and educated in the seminary of Ildefonso, De Zavala was an Ardent Liberal who was jailed 1814-1817 for political activities, in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO7H_u-s-s-texas_La-Porte-TX.html
Last steam engine-driven battleship Four cylinder triple expansion steam engines Largest afloat (27,000 h.p.) at commissioning (1914)Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships The American Society of Mechanical Engineers …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO3Y_first-marine-division_La-Porte-TX.html
First Marine Division was founded aboard USS TEXAS (BB 35)when a directive was read on the ship's fantail redesignating 1st Marine Brigade on 1 February 1941 while the battleship was flagship for Caribbean amphibious exercises. Renowned for va…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO07_captain-william-plunkett-harris_Seabrook-TX.html
New York native William Plunkett Harris (1797-1843) ran a steamboat line in partnership with Robert Wilson before moving to Texas in 1830. At Harrisburg, founded by his brother John Richardson Harris (d. 1829), for whom Harris County was named, he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO05_prehistoric-indian-campsite_Seabrook-TX.html
In this vicinity are the remains of a prehistoric Indian refuse pile, comprised mainly of clam shells. Archeologists call such sites "shell middens." They are the result of centuries of shellfish harvesting by early Indian groups. Shells found at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO01_texan-capture-of-mexican-dispatches_Bellaire-TX.html
After the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, Gen. Sam Houston led the Texan Army in retreat from Gonzales. The Mexican army under Gen. Santa Anna followed eastward from San Antonio. On April 14, while Houston's army was north of him, Santa Anna l…