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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJEV_site-of-rehearsal-hall-for-the-the-hoo-hoo-band_Lufkin-TX.html
At the turn of the century, a group of Lufkin men organized a town brass band. It later became known as the Hoo Hoo Band after representing Texas at a national convention of the Order of Hoo Hoo, an organization of American and Canadian lumbermen.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJES_la-calle-real-del-norte_Nacogdoches-TX.html
An 18th-century trail connecting the Indian villages of the Nacogdoche and Nasoni Indians. Traveled by Spanish missionaries, soldiers and settlers, French traders and American filibusters before Anglo-American colonists came to make Texas their home.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJD6_first-baptist-church-of-salado_Salado-TX.html
A Baptist revival was held on the banks of Salado Creek as early as 1854. By about 1860, members of area Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Church of Christ denominations were meeting in an ecumenical house of worship. Each group held an all-day…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJD5_salado-creek_Salado-TX.html
Gushing limestone springs, abundant fish, flowers, and trees have long made the banks of Salado Creek a good home site.
Indians camped beside stream; Spanish explorers named it; the first Anglo-American settler was Archibald Willingham, 1851.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJD4_main-street-bridges_Salado-TX.html
A number of bridges have been built over Salado Creek on Main Street since 1870. After the town of Salado was laid out in 1859, citizens crossed the creek using various combinations of rocks and logs. When local citizens and students at Salado Col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJD3_stagecoach-inn_Salado-TX.html
Constructed during the 1860s, the Stagecoach Inn was known as Salado Hotel and as Shady Villa before the current name was adopted in 1943. Military figures George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee, and cattle baron Shanghai Pierce are among those…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJCY_donahoe-community_Bartlett-TX.html
Colonists settled in the late 1840s along the fertile Donahoe Creek. Samuel Gibbs Leatherman (1799-1888) arrived in 1854 and opened the first mercantile store. He gave land for the cemetery and brought in the first doctor. In 1880 Leatherman donat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJCS_forrest-lodge-no-19-a-f-a-m_Huntsville-TX.html
One of 25 lodges started during the Republic of Texas, Forrest Lodge No. 19, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, was chartered on Jan. 11, 1844. It is the eighth oldest lodge in Texas. Among its early members were Sam Houston and Texas historian Hen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJCM_the-five-courthouses-of-walker-county_Huntsville-TX.html
The first Walker County Courthouse was available for county commissioners court meetings in July 1848; the building was finally completed in the center of the Huntsville public square in 1850. Because of a defective foundation, a second courthouse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJC7_walker-county_Huntsville-TX.html
The earliest known inhabitants of this area were the Cenis and Bidai (Bedias) Indians. Spanish explorers began to arrive in 1542, followed by the French in 1687. The area was thinly populated by Spanish and Mexican settlers until the early 1830s w…