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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIPJ_yarborough-house_Chandler-TX.html
Occupied since 1903 by Charles Richard and Nannie Jane Spear Yarborough and 3 generations of descendants. Birthplace in 1903 of United States Senator Ralph Webster Yarborough. In this house Charles R. Yarborough, as Justice of the Peace, performed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIN9_old-spanish-cemetery-1800-1825_Nacogdoches-TX.html
This courthouse stands on ground used as a cemetery after Nacgodoches was rebuilt by settlers ordered out of the area when Spain gave up East Texas outposts in 1773. Antonio Gil Y'Barbo (1729 - 1809) led the displaced persons who returned in 1779.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMII8_lindsey-springs-logging-camp_Lufkin-TX.html
The naturally occurring Lindsey Springs, located approximately 3/4 of a mile northeast of this location, became the site in 1899 of the Southern Pine Lumber Company's first logging camp. The springs provided an important water source for this vita…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIHO_thomas-jefferson-rusk_Nacogdoches-TX.html
Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas, Brigadier General of the Army and hero at San Jacinto, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas, United States Senator, he was a soldie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIHE_la-bahia-road_Brenham-TX.html
One of the first overland routes used by European explorers of Texas, La Bahia Road was originally an east-west Indian trail in southeastern Texas and Louisiana. Earlier it may have been an animal trail. Although not as famous, or long, as El Cami…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIH8_staffords-point_Stafford-TX.html
One of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300," William J. Stafford (1764-1840), founded the settlement of Stafford's Point on the 6819.7-acre land grant he received in the winter of 1824. Bringing his family and slaves from his Louisiana sugar plantation, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGU_sugar-land-refinery_Sugar-Land-TX.html
The center of the sugar industry from Texas colonial days and the site of the first sugar refinery in Texas located by S. M. Williams on land granted to him by the Mexican government.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGF_dismounted-texas-cavalry_Richmond-TX.html
The 95,000 men of military age in Civil War Texas, unaccustomed to walking, preferred the daring and mobility of the cavalry used to scout the enemy, screen troop movements and make lightning attacks. 58,533 Texans joined it, riding their own hors…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIGE_hodges-bend-cemetery-white-lake-cemetery_Sugar-Land-TX.html
A veteran of "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion's South Carolina brigade during the American Revolution,Alexander Hodge (b. 1760) brought his family to Texas in 1825. Hodge was prominent among the "Old Three Hundred" settlers; his sons fought in the Texas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIG5_mr-and-mrs-jacob-wolf_Burnet-TX.html
Jacob Wolf (1812-1874) and wife Adeline Faulkner Wolf (1814-1870) came from Tennessee to Texas about 1850. Obtaining land grant in Burnet County, they settled at Dobyville, and were pioneers, supplying their own provisions, buildings, medicines, a…