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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIG4_george-whitaker-home_Burnet-TX.html
Built 1870 by George Whitaker, early settler. Of hand-hewn rock. Has inside cistern. Stones from old courthouse used in 1939 addition.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIG3_the-tobey-community-cemetery_Marble-Falls-TX.html
The Nat Tobey family moved from Indiana to northeast Burnet County in the 1850s. Sons Avery and Samuel bought land here in Backbone Valley in 1868. At the death of N. W. Tobey, aged 12, this cemetery was opened in 1872. A church and school stood n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIG1_tobey-cemetery_Kempner-TX.html
This cemetery, which began with the burial of Mary J. Tobey in 1872, overlooks a stretch of the Lampasas River valley named for Nathaniel Wheeler Tobey (1810-1892). A blacksmith from Connecticut, Tobey settled on several hundred acres here about 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIFX_site-of-town-of-strickling_Bertram-TX.html
Once a busy rural community. Named for Mrs. Martha (Webster) Strickling, who settled here in 1853 with husband Marmaduke. As child, she survived killing of some 30 settlers in infamous Webster Massacre near Leander, and months of Indian captivity.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIFU_the-village-of-south-gabriel_Bertram-TX.html
The South Gabriel Post Office opened in Postmaster Thomas Lewiston's mercantile store on Sept. 29, 1871. The village, named for the South San Gabriel River, was also called Lewiston.
Located on the Austin-Burnet Road, the hamlet soon had two st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIFB_chas-hoya-land-office_Nacogdoches-TX.html
Built in 1897, by Charles Hoya (1848-1926), son of Prussian immigrant Joseph T. Van Der Hoya, and long-time Nacgodoches County surveyor. Designed by Houston architect Frank E. Rue in Victorian style with the Gothic revival details, this was the fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIF6_smith-cemetery_Briggs-TX.html
James Gibson Smith, Jr., a native of Tennessee, married Sarah A. James, a native of Arkansas, soon after settling in this part of Burnet county in 1850. Together they raised eight children and set aside this site as the family cemetery. Their gran…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIF5_shady-grove-community_Bertram-TX.html
In the 1850s and 60s families settled on this farm and ranch land along the Middle Gabriel river. The Old Austin-Lampasas and Burnet-Belton roads intersected here. Six acres deeded by Alexander M. Barton in 1877 later became the site of a schoolho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIF4_the-russell-mcfarland-homestead_Burnet-TX.html
William H. and Mary Russell built this Victorian residence in 1883-84. Russell, a veteran of the Civil War (1861-65), headed the Burnet school system about 15 years. Sold in 1895, the house had such tenants as J. W. Edgar, later state commissioner…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIF3_the-roper-hotel_Marble-Falls-TX.html
George C. and Elizabeth Roper constructed this double-galleried hotel building about 1888. In the growing town of Marble Falls, The Roper Hotel became a popular stop for visiting businessmen and dignitaries. It was purchased by W. F. Smith in 1926…