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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2NE_battle-of-brushy-creek_Taylor-TX.html
A skirmish between Comanche raiders and a local militia near here in mid-winter (1839) led to the last major battle between anglo settlers and indians in Williamson County. The Comanche retaliated on February 18, 1839, by attacking several area ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2N6_stringfellow-orchards_Hitchcock-TX.html
Nationally and internationally recognized horticulturist Henry Martyn Stringfellow (1839-1912) started an experimental garden and orchard at this location in 1883. In 1890 he published a treatise containing innovative organic gardening methods tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MY_north-fork-of-the-san-gabriel-river_Georgetown-TX.html
The North Fork of the San Gabriel River, part of the Brazos River system, flows east across Williamson County to join with the Middle and South forks at Georgetown. Abundant fish and wildlife attracted numerous Indian tribes to the areas along the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MK_the-rainmakers-of-1891_El-Paso-TX.html
Working on the theory that explosives could cause rainfall because many war battles had been followed by rain, the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted experiments in rainmaking. During a West Texas drought in 1891 the agency brought the exper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MC_nelson-crier-house_Round-Rock-TX.html
In 1854, Andrew J. and Hedwig Nelson of Sweden settled here. Hard-working in many businesses, Nelson (d. 1895) prospered. His widow and heirs had this house built by Page Brothers, Austin architects, 1895-1900. A son, Thomas Edward, and wife had D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LZ_chief-justice-john-edward-hickman_Georgetown-TX.html
(1883 - 1962)A distinguished chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and a native of Williamson County.
Descendant of 1849 settlers from Alabama, he was a son of Nathaniel Franklin and Mary J. Porterfield Hickman. He attended the Liberty Hill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LB_monodale-community_Hutto-TX.html
When Texas was readmitted to the Union in 1870, the land in this area was owned by three families, including that of nationally known political statesman Edward Mandell House. Known as Stringtown, the area was so well populated by 1893 that House …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2KM_socorro-mission-la-purisima_Socorro-TX.html
During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Gov. Antonio De Otermin and Father Francisco de Ayeta led Piro Indian and Spanish refugees out of New Mexico into this region, establishing a settlement they named Socorro after the home they had left. The town's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2KI_marsh-f-smith-house_Georgetown-TX.html
This Foursquare house was built in 1908 by the Belford Lumber Co. for Marsh Fawn Smith (1875-1961), operator of a local cottonseed oil mill, and his wife Jessie (Cooper) (1879-1963). Smith served as mayor of Georgetown from 1926 to 1946, important…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2KH_manuel-flores_Liberty-Hill-TX.html
In this vicinity, Manuel Flores, an emissary of the Mexican government, with a small group of men conveying ammunition to the Indians on the Lampasas River, was surprised by Rangers under Lieutenant J. O. Rice in May, 1839, and killed.