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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7RL_tb-25n-mitchell_San-Angelo-TX.html
Span: 68 Feet · Speed: 275 MPHLength: 53 Feet · Ceiling: 25,000 FeetCost: $96,000 · Engine: 2 Wright R-2600
Named for air power advocate Gen Billy Mitchell, the North American B-25 medium bomber entered service in 1941. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7RH_bt-13a-valiant_San-Angelo-TX.html
Span: 42 Feet · Speed: 140 MPHLength: 29 Feet · Ceiling: 16,500 FeetCost: $20,000 · Engine: 1 Pratt & Whitney R-985
Manufactured by Vultee, the BT-13 Valiant almost completely dominated the AAF Basic Pilot Training program …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7RF_t-28a-trojan_San-Angelo-TX.html
Span: 41 Feet · Speed: 283 MPHLength: 32 Feet · Ceiling: 25,200 FeetCost: $123,000 · Engine: 1 Wright R-1300
From 1950 to 1957 North American Aviation manufactured 1,948 Trojans to replace the T-6 trainer, delivering the "A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NN_velasco_Surfside-Beach-TX.html
Here was fought a battle— the first collision in arms between Texas colonists and the Mexican military— a conflict preliminary to the Texas War for Independence.
On June 26, 1832, when Texans under John Austin and Henry Smith came d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6NM_old-velasco-csa_Surfside-Beach-TX.html
Historic and key Texas port of entry located near here. During the Civil War was fortified by troops and 8 gun batteries at the mouth of the Brazos River, to provide shelter and landing facilities for blockade runners; to protect rich farmlands; a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM643_vietnam-veterans-memorial_West-Columbia-TX.html
Dedicated to all the veterans who have served their country.
They served with honor, and now we honor them.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM642_old-oakland-plantation_Jones-Creek-TX.html
Founded 1828 by Henry Wm. Munson, who bought site from Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas. This land joined Peach Point Plantation, Austin's home. Munson, one of Texans in uprising over injustices at Anahuac and Velasco in 1832, died in yellow fev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM61J_ellerslie-plantation_Jones-Creek-TX.html
John Greenville McNeel came to Texas in 1822 with his parents and brothers. Each of the men received land grants from the Mexican government as members of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" colony.
Located near this site was the Ellerslie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5VL_founding-of-the-mission-and-the-origin-of-name_San-Antonio-TX.html
The San Antonio de Padua Mission was founded in San Antonio in 1716 by the Franciscan Father, Antonio Olivares, and after merging with the San Francisco Solano Mission in 1718, it was officially founded as the San Antonio de Valero Mission. The pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5VH_the-defense-of-the-alamo_San-Antonio-TX.html
The Alamo in 1836 consisted of this church, the convent and a large rectangular area or plaza, an enclosure of about six acres surrounded by walls with barracks on the west side of the plaza. On February 23, 1836 Colonel William Barret Travis ente…