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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJCY_donahoe-community_Bartlett-TX.html
Colonists settled in the late 1840s along the fertile Donahoe Creek. Samuel Gibbs Leatherman (1799-1888) arrived in 1854 and opened the first mercantile store. He gave land for the cemetery and brought in the first doctor. In 1880 Leatherman donat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJC3_womans-wednesday-club_Bartlett-TX.html
What began in 1902 as an idea to organize a women's club with a focus on literature and history became a reality in April 1903, with formation of Woman's Study Club. Chartered with nineteen members under the leadership of Mrs. Vena (Holzgraf) High…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJC2_city-of-bartlett_Bartlett-TX.html
Settlers began moving to this area in the 1830s, when Texas was a Republic, but the town of Bartlett was not established until the 1870s. The founders were J. Edward Pietzsch and Capt. John T. Bartlett, for whom the community was named. In 1882 th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJC1_site-of-german-english-school_Bartlett-TX.html
Established by German immigrants in 1880, the German-English School was an early school in the Bartlett area. First called Indian Creek School, the name was changed due to popular usage and the nature of instruction, which was in English during th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJC0_st-john-lutheran-church_Bartlett-TX.html
The first Lutheran worship services in this area were held at the home of early German settler J.E. Pietzsch, who had moved from Austin County. In 1880 a small school and church building was erected on land donated by John Bartlett, for whom the n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJBZ_site-of-booker-t-washington-school_Bartlett-TX.html
With overcrowded buildings at the African American school in southwestern Bartlett, the Bartlett trustees bought four buildings from Camp Swift in Bastrop to enlarge the facilities. A bond issue passed in 1948, and plans began for a U-shaped build…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJBY_first-baptist-church-of-bartlett_Bartlett-TX.html
Originally known as Pecan Grove Baptist Church, this fellowship was organized in 1873 by the Rev. M.V. Smith, The Rev. H.I. Kimball, and the Rev. G.W. Baines, great-grandfather of United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In 1884 the church w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJBX_bartlett-grammar-school_Bartlett-TX.html
By the early 1900s Bartlett had become the railroad center of a prosperous cotton growing region. In 1903 the Bartlett Independent School district was created. By 1906-07 the 5-room schoolhouse here proved inadequate to house the district's expand…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ6Q_bartlett-electric-cooperative_Bartlett-TX.html
Although the town of Bartlett had regular electric service by 1905, farmers in the surrounding rural area were not supplied with electricity until thirty years later. On May 11, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIXU_stockton-family-cemetery_Bartlett-TX.html
The Stockton Family Cemetery is located on land originally granted in 1859 by Texas governor Hardin R. Runnels to Moses Allen, a veteran of the Siege of Bexar. Douglas Hayden Stockton and his wife Mary Elizabeth (White) brought their family to Bel…