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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B5G_first-united-methodist-church-of-humble_Humble-TX.html
Founded in 1886, Humble was an oil boom town in 1907 when the Rev. J. T. Browning of Houston began conducting Methodist worship services for residents of the area. The services were first held in a building that had housed a bottle factory. In 190…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B5F_colonel-b-f-terry_Houston-TX.html
(front) Native of Kentucky. Came to Texas, 1831. Member Secession Convention. Commanded reinforcements of State troops sent to Rio Grande for the capture of Federal Army property at Fort Brown. Went to Virginia hoping to be in first battle of war…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B5E_anson-jones_Houston-TX.html
Anson Jones was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He earned his M.D. degree in Philadelphia in 1827; by October 1833, Jones had moved to Texas, establishing a successful medical practice in Brazoria. In 1835, he helped organize Holland Lodg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B5D_houston-cemetery-company_Houston-TX.html
The Houston Cemetery Company was one of several chartered and private associations promoted by Houston business leaders for the purpose of effecting civic, cultural and economic improvements following the Civil War. Houston Cemetery Company was ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B5C_houston-heights_Houston-TX.html
Representatives of the American Loan and Trust Company of Omaha, Nebraska, came to Houston in 1890 to scout locations for land development. Under the leadership of O.M. Carter, D.D. Cooley, and others, company directors purchased 1,756 acres of la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM296T_site-of-confederate-prison-compound_Houston-TX.html
Before 1861, site of warehouse serving Buffalo Bayou shipping. At times during 1861-65, the building here housed prisoners of war. In Jan. 1863 it held 350 Federals captured by Houston-based Confederate army of Gen. John B. Magruder. The city also…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM296R_astrodome_Houston-TX.html
Judge Roy Hofheinz envisioned the world's first air-conditioned fully enclosed multi-purpose stadium by 1960. Officially named the Harris County Domed Stadium, ground was broken for the home of Major League Baseball's Houston Colt .45s on January …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM296Q_san-jacinto-high-school_Houston-TX.html
South End Junior High School opened its doors in 1914 with 750 students in an impressive classical revival style structure built here in 1913. South End Junior High became a senior high school in 1923, and in 1926 its name was changed to San Jacin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM296O_first-evangelical-church_Houston-TX.html
On July 1, 1851, a group led by the Rev. Caspar Messon Braun (1822-1880) founded the Erste Deutsche Evangelische Lutherische Kirche, or First German Evangelical Lutheran Church. The State of Texas issued the church's charter in September of that y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM296N_houston-light-guard-armory_Houston-TX.html
Designed by noted Houston architect Alfred C. Finn, the Armory was constructed in 1925 to replace an 1892 building that had become obsolete. Finn detailed the building to suggest a late renaissance period neo-Gothic English masonry, represented by…
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