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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFU_alamo-funeral-pyre_San-Antonio-TX.html
On this spot bodies of heroes slain at the Alamo were burned on a funeral pyre. Fragments of the bodies were afterward buried here. This tablet is the gift of relatives of Green B. Jemision and of other friends.
Second MarkerThe De Zavala Chapt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFT_250th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-san-antonio_San-Antonio-TX.html
Area was first explored and named by Spaniards in 1691. Colonial settlement began here May 1-5, 1718, with founding of Franciscan Mission San Antonio de Valero (later known as "The Alamo"). In vicinity of the mission was the Presidio San Antonio d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKF1_norwood-community_San-Augustine-TX.html
This rural community was settled in the 1840s by William Coleson (W.C.) Norwood (1794-1885) and Eliza LeGrand Norwood (1808-1859). They migrated from North Carolina, where W.C. was a merchant and postmaster in the town of Norwood. The Norwoods wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKF0_menger-bar_San-Antonio-TX.html
Exact replica of pub in London's House of Lords. Theodore Roosevelt recruited "Rough Riders" here in 1898. Site of more cattle deals than any other place in Texas and San Antonio's oldest continuously operated saloon.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEZ_san-antonio-river-indian-springs_San-Antonio-TX.html
On this site are the springs used by the inhabitants of the ancient Indian village and later by Mission San Antonio de Valero and its adjoining pueblo.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEY_dr-ferdinand-ludwig-herff_San-Antonio-TX.html
Ferdinand Ludwig Von Herff (1820-1912) was the son of Christian and Eleanora (Von Meusebach) Herff, prominent citizens of Darmstadt, Germany. The younger Von Herff studied in Giessen, Bonn and Berlin, graduating with a medical degree in 1843. He s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKEX_twin-cypress-mexican-sniper-tree_San-Antonio-TX.html
An old legend describes this twin cypress as a lookout of a Mexican sniper who picked off the Texans as they came to the river for water.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKCC_karankawa-campsite_Jamaica-Beach-TX.html
In this area is one of several known Karankawa campsites or burial grounds. Now extinct, the nomadic Indians lived along the Texas coast, depending on the Gulf for survival. In 1528 they aided Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca, but resisted all intr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKCB_lafittes-grove_Galveston-TX.html
Fort and settlement established here in 1817 by the freebooter Jean Lafitte who maintained headquarters here while preying on shipping in the Gulf of Mexico. The Battle of the Three Trees was fought here between Lafitte's men and Karankawa Indians…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKCA_galveston-immigration-stations_Galveston-TX.html
Galveston was the port of entry for thousands of immigrants who settled in Texas and the southwest. Federal laws enacted in 1875 ended the unrestricted entry of immigrants into the country and led to the establishment of the area's first U. S. Imm…