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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C8R_site-of-post-west-bernard-station_East-Bernard-TX.html
In the summer of 1837 Post West Bernard Station was established as an ordnance depot of the army of The Republic of Texas. Its location on the West Bernard River was strategic in protecting Houston, then capital of Texas, from possible invasion by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C8Q_new-york-texas-mexican-railroad-and-the-community-of-hungerford_East-Bernard-TX.html
Attracted by the State of Texas' offer of free land to railroad developers, a charter for the New York, Texas & Mexican Railroad was secured in 1880. Its major investor, John W. Mackay, made his fortune in the Nevada silver mines. His brother-in-l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C8P_site-of-quinan-community_East-Bernard-TX.html
The village of Quinan was established about 1872 on the Wharton-Richmond road. It was named for Judge George E. Quinan (1819-1893), who lived south of here on Peach Creek. A native of Ireland, Quinan served in the Texas Senate and on the state Cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C8O_j-d-hudgins-ranch_East-Bernard-TX.html
Joel Hudgins (1800-1873) of North Carolina came to the Republic of Texas in 1839 and settled in the Hungerford area. He married Rachel Ann Northington McKenzie (d. 1903) in 1847. He was elected county commissioner in 1854.
After Joel's death, R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQK_wharton-county-confederate-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wharton-TX.html
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"Lest We Forget"
1861-1865
Dedicated to the Confederate veterans of Wharton County by the J.E.B. Stuart Chapter Daughters of Confederacy
Commanders of Buchel Camp
Col. I.N. Dennis
Capt. G.C. Duncan
R.M. Brown
Judge G.S. Gordon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AOB_danevang-pioneer-monument_El-Campo-TX.html
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Danevang
1894 - 1976
This monument was erected in honor of all the pioneers who settled Danevang. They met adversity and hardship with Christian fellowship, cooperation and hard work. They achieved their goal of a Danish community with a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29QR_site-of-plaza-hotel-and-plaza-theater_Wharton-TX.html
Built on Wharton's Courthouse Square, the Plaza Hotel began circa 1904 as a two-story brick structure with a large dining room on the first floor and 20 rooms to let. Owned and operated by R. B. Huston and his wife Lula Merriwether Huston, the Pla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29QQ_ansgar-evangelical-lutheran-church-and-cemetery_El-Campo-TX.html
The Danish Folk Society obtained a land option from the Texas Land and Cattle Company and helped 93 Danish families from the midwest establish the Danevang Cooperative Settlement here in the early 1890s. The settlers, strong adherents of the Luthe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29Q6_judge-george-e-quinan_Wharton-TX.html
A native of Dublin, Ireland, George E. Quinan came to Texas in the 1830s. By the mid-1840s he had moved to Wharton and set up a law office near this site. He was elected district attorney in 1845. Quinan and his wife Mary Anne established a home o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29Q3_danevang-lutheran-church_El-Campo-TX.html
The church building before you was erected at Camp Hulen at Palacios, Texas at the beginning of the nineteen-forties when the nation was preparing for war. As part of a huge construction effort, which transformed a tent camp into an anti-aircraft …