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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI0R_site-of-the-home-of-thomas-j-rusk_Nacogdoches-TX.html
Soldier - Statesman of the Republic of Texas - A hero of San Jacinto - Commander-In-Chief of the army 1836 - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1839 - President of the Constitutional Convention, 1845 - United States Senator, 1846 - He called Naco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHZY_site-of-rincon-douglass-school_San-Antonio-TX.html
Following the Civil War and the Emancipation of American slaves, the Federal Government established the Freedman's Bureau to oversee programs aimed at educating and assisting blacks with their newly-granted citizenship. One of the most visible of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHYW_site-of-neches-indian-village_Alto-TX.html
Here at the opening of the 18th century stood a village of the Neches Indians. Their name was given to the river and later to a mission, San Francisco De Los Neches, established near by. With the Cherokees, the Neches Indians were expelled from Te…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHX8_ratcliff_Ratcliff-TX.html
About 1875, a 32 - wagon train of settlers came here from Georgia. Jesse H. Ratcliff (1844 - 1920) built sawmill about 1885, drawing more people. Post office opened 1889, with Ratcliff as postmaster, and town soon had several stores. Professional …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHWX_1894-grand-opera-house_Galveston-TX.html
Designed by Frank Cox of New Orleans, this Romanesque revival structure served as an opera house, hotel, and restaurant when it opened for its first season in 1895. Converted to a movie theater in the 1920s, it was restored in the 1970s and 1980s …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHVS_camp-ford_Tyler-TX.html
On this site during the Civil War was located Camp Ford the largest prisoner of war compound for Union troops west of Mississippi river named in honor of Col. John S. "Rip" Ford who originally established a training camp here in 1862. It was conve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHVL_quanah-parker_Fort-Worth-TX.html
Comanche chief Quanah Parker was a son of two cultures. He was born about 1845 along Elk Creek, Indian Territory (Oklahoma). His Anglo mother was Cynthia Ann Parker, taken captive in a May 1836 raid and adopted by Qua-Ha-Di (Antelope) Comanches, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHV0_original-site-of-st-cyprians-episcopal-church_Lufkin-TX.html
The first Episcopal service in Lufkin was held in 1893 by the Rev. George L. Crocket for the W.G. Barron and R.B. Shearer families. St. Mary's Mission was established in 1895 by the Rev. C.M. Beckwith, but the congregation did not have a permanent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHUJ_walker-cemetery_Lufkin-TX.html
This part of Angelina County has long been called Red Land, or Redland, for the red soil ridge that forms the center of the community. In 1846, Thomas R. Walker moved into the area from North Carolina. In 1851, he wed Emily Z. Briscoe, and the cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHT0_site-of-temporary-texas-state-capitol-of-1880s_Austin-TX.html
Built, 1882-1883, to replace the previous Capitol, which had burned in 1881. Until the building was completed, the orphaned Texas government conducted business in the county courthouse and jail across Congress avenue.
The three-story brick buil…