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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS5_ebenezer-third-baptist-church_Austin-TX.html
The Rev. C. Ward organized this church in the home of Mrs. Elisa Hawkins in 1875 as the Third Baptist congregation in Austin. A small frame structure at Catalpa and Curve Streets was the place of worship for ten years. A brick sanctuary in Gothic …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSS3_maud-anna-berry-smith-fuller_Austin-TX.html
One of Austin's most revered African American civic and religious leaders, Maud Anna Berry Smith Fuller is best remembered for her generosity, inspirational speeches, Baptist missionary activity, teaching abilities, and compassion for those less f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHSZ_sailor-from-the-belle-shipwreck_Austin-TX.html
Buried here are the remains of a 17th-century sailor who was a member of an ill-fated 1684-87 French expedition to the new world led by Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Texas Historical Commission archaeologists discovered the skeleton on Octob…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRQ_wesley-united-methodist-church_Austin-TX.html
This congregation was established at the end of the Civil War for freedmen of the Austin area. It was begun through the efforts of the Rev. Joseph Welch, a white Methodist missionary, and the Rev. Isaac Wright, a black minister of the Methodist Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQV_col-lewis-miles-hobbs-washington_Austin-TX.html
Georgia native Lewis Washington came to Texas about 1835 and joined the revolutionary forces at San Antonio. A member of Col. Fannin's staff, he served with the Georgia battalion at Refugio and Goliad. He was appointed to an office in Sam Houston'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHP2_tillotson-college_Austin-TX.html
Founded in 1875 by the Rev. George J. Tillotson with the support of the American Missionary Association and congregational churches, Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute was chartered in 1877. Building on a foundation already set in Austin by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHO8_swedish-hill_Austin-TX.html
Residential development of this area began in the 1870s when a number of Swedish immigrants erected homes near their downtown businesses. Initially bounded by Red River, 14th, 18th, and Navasota streets, the neighborhood became known as Svenska Ku…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHO4_stuart-female-seminary_Austin-TX.html
After 23 years as principal of Live Oak Female Seminary, Washington County, Rebecca K. Stuart Red (1826-1886) founded her own school in 1875. Her husband, G.C. Red, M.D., had a two-story stone dormitory - academic building erected on this site, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHNC_state-cemetery-of-texas_Austin-TX.html
Burial ground for the honored dead of Texas, this cemetery contains the remains of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas"; nine Governors of Texas (as of 1968); and representatives of every period of state history and every department of state g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMJ_southgate-lewis-house_Austin-TX.html
Local bookbinder and printer John Southgate had this house built for his family in 1888. The High Victorian structure features a bay window, second-floor bands of shingles, and distinctive window surrounds. Businessman Charles Lewis (1872-1922) pu…