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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRY_wooldridge-park_Austin-TX.html
This area was designated as a public square on original 1839 plat of City of Austin, but lay vacant for 70 years. In an era of civic pride, the park was developed and opened on June 18, 1909, with dedicatory address being made by the Honorable A.P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRX_site-of-willow-ranch-school_Manor-TX.html
Travis County landowner Peter Carr Wells (1856-1913) donated a plot of land on his ranch to the Willow Ranch School District in 1894. Four years later, a school was established on this site. Most of those who attended were the children of Swedish …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRV_williams-weigl-house_Austin-TX.html
This c. 1911 home is associated with two important Austin families. New York native Harvey Murdock Williams, a bookkeeper at Ramsey Nursery, and his wife, Euphemia (Sinclair), built the house. In the early 1940s, it passed to their son, Harvey Sin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRU_dr-jacob-tally-wilhite_Buda-TX.html
Born on a farm near this site, Jacob Tally Wilhite received his early education in the public schools of the Willow Springs community. He attended the University of Texas in Austin and taught school in Bastrop County before continuing his studies …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRT_emma-west-flats_Austin-TX.html
After attorney Robert G. West (1860-1904) died, his widow Emma Grant West (1865-1952) had this structure built to provide rental income for support of their four children. Erected by contractors Fischer & Lambie in 1905, the brick edifice had one …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRR_west-hill_Austin-TX.html
Tradition says architect Abner Cook built this house for Reuben and Mary Runner, about 1855. Some later owners were F.W. Chandler and H.E. Shelley, lawyers, 1863-1909; the May Thompson family, 1917-69. Originally the house faced east, pre-empting …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRQ_wesley-united-methodist-church_Austin-TX.html
This congregation was established at the end of the Civil War for freedmen of the Austin area. It was begun through the efforts of the Rev. Joseph Welch, a white Methodist missionary, and the Rev. Isaac Wright, a black minister of the Methodist Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQY_wells-larue-house_Austin-TX.html
Built about 1850 by famed pioneer architect Abner Cook, for Waymen Wells, who lived 10 miles north, but needed town house for business and pleasure trips. His grandchildren, the LaRues, moved in to attend school sessions. Third generation now live…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQX_f-weigl-iron-works_Austin-TX.html
Ironsmith Fortunat Weigl (1884-1973) migrated to Austin in 1913 from Germany with his wife Anna and sons F. Lee and Herbert. Work was scarce until 1917, when Weigl was commissioned by the noted local woodcarver Peter Mansbendel, who supplied a for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQW_webberville-ebenezer-baptist-church_Webberville-TX.html
This church traces its origin to the plight of Anglo American John F. Webber, who along with his African American wife and children, settled in this sparsely populated area of Texas in 1839 to escape the racism they had experienced in towns and ci…