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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3Y_angelina_Lufkin-TX.html
In 1690, when Spain's Franciscan Fathers founded Mission San Francisco de los Tejas in East Texas, they found a young Indian girl living with her people beside a stream. The priests found her a willing ally for carrying the Catholic Faith to the I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3W_first-baptist-church-of-lufkin_Lufkin-TX.html
Chartered with nine members, the Lufkin Baptist Church began conducting worship services soon after rail lines reached the townsite in the early 1880s. The Houston, East & West Texas Railroad donated land at this site to Joesph Kerr, E.H.F. McMull…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3U_shoal-creek_Austin-TX.html
Native Americans, settlers and cattle drovers crossed the river here where Shoal Creek's sand made the water shallow. During Republic days Vice President Mirabeau Lamar camped here, near the village of Waterloo while hunting buffalo. His impress…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3F_site-of-martin-wagon-company_Lufkin-TX.html
David Webster Martin (d. 1916) and his two sons opened a small wagon shop here in 1908. An inventor and designer, Martin developed various wagons for use in the lumber industry. In partnership with B.L. Zeagler, he incorporated the operation as th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI3A_john-s-roberts_Nacogdoches-TX.html
Sheriff in Natchitoches Louisiana in 1826. One of the leaders in Battle of Nacogdoches. Member of Consultation 1835. Commanded the Nacogdoches company in storming of Bexar, 1835. Signer of Texas Declaration of Independence. Born in Virginia, July …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI2Y_charles-standfield-taylor_Nacogdoches-TX.html
Land commissioner of East Texas, 1883. A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836. Chief Justice of Nacogdoches County, 1837. District Attorney, 1839. Rio Grande land commissioner, 1854. Born in London, England 1808. Died November 1, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI2G_oak-grove-cemetery_Nacogdoches-TX.html
Originally called "American Cemetery," Oak Grove Cemetery is located on the 1826 land grant of Empresario Haden Edwards. The leader of the 1826 Fredonian Rebellion, Edwards is interred here. The earliest marked burial on this site is that of Frank…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI27_charles-s-taylor_Nacogdoches-TX.html
Site of the home ofCharles S. Taylor(1808 - 1865)Citizen of Nacogdoches, 1830-1865. A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Land commissioner and Chief Justice of Nacogdoches County. Born in London, England, in 1808. Died here November …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI1E_the-joseph-r-rice-log-cabin_Grapeland-TX.html
Joseph Redmond Rice (1805-1866) cut timber, then his young wife, Willie Masters Rice (1809-1881), snaked the logs to a homesite 16 miles southwest of here. The cabin they built was a noted way-station on the San Antonio Road. They brought up nine …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI1B_mission-san-francisco-de-los-tejas_Grapeland-TX.html
First Spanish Mission in East Texas. Established in 1690 by Franciscan friars to convert the Tejas Indians. "Tejas", a Spanish rendition of the Indian word for "friend", was in time adopted as the state name.
The founding party was led by Capt.…