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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZW_tumlinson-family_Columbus-TX.html
John (1776-1823) and Elizabeth Plemmons (1778-1829) Tumlinson were born in Lincoln County, North Carolina and lived in Tennessee, Illinois, and Arkansas before coming to Texas with their seven children as members of Austin's Old Three Hundred Colo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZB_frisco-depot_Menard-TX.html
Seeking a rail line to speed marketing of their livestock, residents of this area in 1909 asked the Ft. Worth & Rio Grande Railroad, a branch of the Frisco System, to extend track from Brady (40 mi. NE) to Menardville. Ranchers donated right of wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJYN_milam-masonic-institute_Milam-TX.html
Many pioneers belonged to the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, an order active in education. Among Masons settling in this area by 1845 were Republic of Texas leaders William Clark, James Gaines, D.S. Kaufman, Willis H. Landrum, and F.M. Weather…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJYI_navigation-of-the-colorado-river_Eagle-Lake-TX.html
Because overland travel in early Texas was an enterprise often fraught with hardship, frustration, and danger, many individuals looked to rivers for a solution to the problem. From 1829 to the Civil War, optimistic Texans attempted to ply the area…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJYG_stage-lines-through-columbus_Columbus-TX.html
Nineteenth-century stagecoach operations in Texas were closely tied to mail delivery, and contracts with the U.S. Postal Service more often than not made the transportation of passengers and freight by stage economically feasible. As an early comm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXW_fort-worth-zoological-park_Fort-Worth-TX.html
The oldest continuous Zoo site in Texas, the Fort Worth Zoological Park has provided its visitors with many recreational and educational opportunities since 1909. The first Zoo in Fort Worth was a small menagerie then located in an old City Park a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXO_the-tenth-cavalry_San-Angelo-TX.html
Following the Civil War, the United States Congress authorized the creation of six regiments of black U.S. Army troops. The Tenth Cavalry was organized in 1867 under the leadership of Col. Benjamin Grierson (1826-1911). The order creating black tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXN_fort-concho_San-Angelo-TX.html
The center of a line of forts extending from the northeastern border of Texas to El Paso. Was also northern point of southern chain of forts extending to Rio Grande, thence along that river to its mouth. Established 1867 (at then junction of Butte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXM_site-of-fort-mckavett_Fort-McKavett-TX.html
Established March 14, 1852 by the United States War Department as a protection to frontier settlers against hostile Indians. Named in honor of Captain Henry McKavett, who fell at the Battle of Monterrey, September 21, 1846. Evacuated by federal tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXJ_john-c-hale_Milam-TX.html
John C. Hale, one of nine patriots killed at the Battle of San Jacinto, was born in Scott County, Virginia on April 3, 1806. He married Barshaba Miller in his home state in 1830, and by 1835 moved with his wife and children to Sabine County. They …