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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GI_origins-of-freedmans-town_Houston-TX.html
Located in Houston's Fourth Ward, the original Freedman's Town settlement was founded soon after the emancipation of enslaved blacks on June 19, 1865, at the end of the Civil War in Texas. Positioned west of downtown and directly south of Buffalo …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GH_houston-cotton-exchange-and-board-of-trade_Houston-TX.html
Founded in 1874 to facilitate trade in the expanding cotton market. This Victorian renaissance revival edifice, designed by Eugene T. Heiner, was built in 1884-85 by contractors Max Kosse and James S. Lucas. The exchange room and galleries were si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GD_harris-county_Houston-TX.html
Inhabited during the 17th century by Karankawa and Orcoquiza Indians, and considered in 1756 by Spain for site of Presidio de San Agustin de Ahumada, this region was settled permanently in 1822 by the colonists of Stephen F. Austin. In 1824 John R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZRV_sam-houston-park-monument_Houston-TX.html
Spirit of the ConfederacyErected by the Robert E Lee N. 186 U.D.C.January 1908To all the heroes of the South that fought for the principles of States rights.
Monument CommitteeJulia H Franklin, Bettie P. Mutcheson, Ella H. Sydnor, Marion S. Hol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5Y_benjamin-apartments_Houston-TX.html
Completed in 1924, this apartment building is a good example of multi-family housing constructed in the south end of downtown Houston after World War I. Successful businessman Benjamin Cohen (1875-1951) hired noted Houston architect Alfred Finn to…