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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2PG_original-site-of-southwestern-university_Georgetown-TX.html
The Methodist church established four colleges in Texas prior to the Civil War: Rutersville College (1840), Wesleyan College (1844), McKenzie Institute (1848), and Soule University (1856). The Rev. Dr. Francis Asbury Mood (1830-1884) was named pre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2PF_old-georgetown-cemetery_Georgetown-TX.html
This site on the south bank of the South San Gabriel River, a portion of the land donated by George W. Glasscock in 1848 for the county seat of Williamson County, was used as a burial plot from 1840 to 1902. Many pioneer citizens lie buried here -…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2NL_old-dimmitt-building_Georgetown-TX.html
Associated with Texas pioneers, businessmen, statesmen, writers. Erected 1901 as a hotel by P.H. Dimmitt & Co. Later occupied by mercantile stores — meeting place for families and friends from Williamson County communities. Georgetown's firs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LZ_chief-justice-john-edward-hickman_Georgetown-TX.html
(1883 - 1962)A distinguished chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and a native of Williamson County.
Descendant of 1849 settlers from Alabama, he was a son of Nathaniel Franklin and Mary J. Porterfield Hickman. He attended the Liberty Hill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2KI_marsh-f-smith-house_Georgetown-TX.html
This Foursquare house was built in 1908 by the Belford Lumber Co. for Marsh Fawn Smith (1875-1961), operator of a local cottonseed oil mill, and his wife Jessie (Cooper) (1879-1963). Smith served as mayor of Georgetown from 1926 to 1946, important…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JX_mankins-crossing_Georgetown-TX.html
(100 yards west)
This historic crossing on the San Gabriel River was named for pioneer settler Samuel Mankins, who purchased land along the river in 1849. The limestone bed in the river provided a convenient crossing for area farmers. A nearby …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2JQ_macedonia-baptist-church_Georgetown-TX.html
The earliest worship services of this congregation were held in 1881 under a back yard arbor at the home of Matilda Lewis. Nine families, including those of Robert Lewis, W. Stevenson, Wiley Cleaveland, George Ross, Esaw Beard, Kissiah Jefferson, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2HV_m-b-lockett-building_Georgetown-TX.html
Located on the site of an 1840s store, this structure was built after the Civil War. In the 1880s it housed the mercantile firm of Rucker & Montgomery. Ohio native Melville Beveridge Lockett opened his store here in 1889 and remodeled the building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FQ_lesesne-stone-building-the-kgtn-building_Georgetown-TX.html
This limestone commercial structure was built in 1884 to house the Sanders & Lesesne Drugstore. It remained in use as a pharmacy for the next 76 years. William D. Nichols operated the drugstore from 1887 until 1892. In that year, Dr. Thomas B. Sto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CO_judge-greenleaf-fisk_Georgetown-TX.html
Born in Albany, New York, Greenleaf Fisk was the son of a Presbyterian minister. He began preparation for the ministry himself but left his studies to migrate to the Texas frontier. In 1834 he settled in Bastrop. There he joined a company of volun…