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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DZT_veterans-memorial_Van-Alstyne-TX.html
Presented toDorothy Fielder ParkIn Remembrance of All Veterans
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DZS_van-alstyne_Van-Alstyne-TX.html
The town of Mantua was established about 3 miles southwest of here in 1854. Mantua prospered but was unexpectedly bypassed in 1873 when the Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC) extended its track through this area instead. That year a depot wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DZQ_first-united-methodist-church-of-van-alstyne_Van-Alstyne-TX.html
Outgrowth of Liberty Class, formed 1847 for Bible study and worship, in log cabin of Jim Creager (1.25 mi. S) by the Rev. Joab Biggs, of the Dallas Methodist Circuit, and M. F. Cole. In 1855, after a rainstorm that detained quarterly conference de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DZO_captain-leidesdorff_San-Francisco-CA.html
Captain Leidesdorff's father was a Danish sea captain; his Creole mother was from Danish-held St. Croix, where Leidesdorff was born in 1812. Educated in New Orleans, William Alexander Leidesdorff became an accomplished linguist and master of the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DZN_first-christian-church-of-van-alstyne_Van-Alstyne-TX.html
The predecessor of this church, the first Disciples of Christ congregation in Texas, was founded during the winter of 1841-1842 at McKinney's Landing in Bowie County near the Texas-Arkansas border.
Collin McKinney, pioneer settler and Signer of…