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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYE_redland-baptist-church_Lufkin-TX.html
Liberty Baptist Church, established in the Redland community in 1859, became Redland Baptist Church after reorganizing in 1895. Worship services were held in a local schoolhouse until 1924 when the congregation built its first sanctuary. A new chu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYD_first-united-methodist-church-of-lufkin_Lufkin-TX.html
Margaret (Fullerton) Abney, born in Alabama in 1829, joined the Methodist church with her family at a camp meeting held at nearby McKendree campground in 1863. Because the nearest Methodist church was ten miles away, Mrs. Abney held bible study me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIXU_stockton-family-cemetery_Bartlett-TX.html
The Stockton Family Cemetery is located on land originally granted in 1859 by Texas governor Hardin R. Runnels to Moses Allen, a veteran of the Siege of Bexar. Douglas Hayden Stockton and his wife Mary Elizabeth (White) brought their family to Bel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIXH_fort-worth-stockyards-horse-and-mule-barns_Fort-Worth-TX.html
The Fort Worth Stock Yard Company's wooden horse and mule barns on this site were destroyed by fire on March 14, 1911, opening day of the Feeders and Breeders show (later Southwestern Exposition & Fat Stock Show). The show opened as planned, with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIXD_fort-worth-stock-yards-company_Fort-Worth-TX.html
The Fort Worth Stock Yards Company was created in 1893, when Boston capitalist Greenlief W. Simpson led a group of investors in purchasing the Fort Worth Union Stock Yards. Under Simpson's leadership, the Company earned the support of the Texas Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIWR_wesley-chapel-cemetery_Bluff-Dale-TX.html
Artesian springs helped draw settlers to Eastern Erath County and the community of Bluff Springs (later Bluff Dale). In 1872, Rev. James Wesley and Martha (Middleton) White donated seven acres of land for a church, school and community burial grou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIVJ_fort-worth-livestock-exchange_Fort-Worth-TX.html
Headquarters, one of the greatest cattle markets in the world. In late 1860s Fort Worth was stop on cattle trails. Market for the West Texas organized 1870s. First trader, T.B. Saunders, Sr., soon was joined by others. First small packing houses w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUO_robsons-castle-and-columbus-texas-meat-and-ice-company_Columbus-TX.html
Robert Robson (1804-1878), one of many Scotsmen seeking fortune in North America, came to the Texas Republic in 1839. On land he owned at this site, he built a concrete "castle," using native lime and gravel. It had running water, pumped from the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUN_early-texas-hotels-and-inns_Round-Top-TX.html
Two miles east, at Winedale, is the Old "Sam Lewis Stopping Place" of the 1850s—a typical early Texas inn, now a University of Texas Research Center. Built 1834, as a settler's 2-room log cabin of hand-hewn cedar; then enlarged twice and (wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIUL_greenvine-gas-discovery_Brenham-TX.html
Apparently the first use in Texas of natural gas for fuel occurred in 1879 near here. William Seidel, a farmer, grist mill and cotton gin owner, and merchant, trying to dig a water well, struck gas at approximate depth of 106 feet. The gas was pip…