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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQK_wharton-county-confederate-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wharton-TX.html
Front:
"Lest We Forget"
1861-1865
Dedicated to the Confederate veterans of Wharton County by the J.E.B. Stuart Chapter Daughters of Confederacy
Commanders of Buchel Camp
Col. I.N. Dennis
Capt. G.C. Duncan
R.M. Brown
Judge G.S. Gordon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29QR_site-of-plaza-hotel-and-plaza-theater_Wharton-TX.html
Built on Wharton's Courthouse Square, the Plaza Hotel began circa 1904 as a two-story brick structure with a large dining room on the first floor and 20 rooms to let. Owned and operated by R. B. Huston and his wife Lula Merriwether Huston, the Pla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29Q6_judge-george-e-quinan_Wharton-TX.html
A native of Dublin, Ireland, George E. Quinan came to Texas in the 1830s. By the mid-1840s he had moved to Wharton and set up a law office near this site. He was elected district attorney in 1845. Quinan and his wife Mary Anne established a home o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29PH_security-bank-and-trust-company_Wharton-TX.html
The Security Bank and Trust Company traces its history to the Wharton National Bank. The second banking institution to open in the city, the Wharton National Bank was organized in 1902, and closed in 1915. Following reorganization, the bank reopen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29O4_city-of-wharton_Wharton-TX.html
The town of Wharton was founded as the seat of Wharton County in April 1846. Land for a courthouse, named Monterey Square, was given from the land grant of William Kincheloe, one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" colonists who settled in …
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Wharton County
Created April 3, 1846
From Matagorda, Jackson and Colorado
Counties, Organized same year
Named for
William H. Wharton
1806-1839
Texas minister to the
United States
1836-1837, and his brother
John A. Wharton
1809-1838
Adj…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29O0_site-of-the-home-of-robert-mcalpin-williamson_Wharton-TX.html
Born in Georgia in 1806
Editor "The Texas Gazette" and
"The Mexican Citizen," pioneer
Texas newspapers
Active in the revolution
Member of the Supreme Court of
the Republic, 1836-1839
Member of Texas Legislature
1846-1849
Died December 22,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TFE_wharton-county-courthouse-historical_Wharton-TX.html
The Texas legislature created Wharton County in 1846, incorporating part of Stephen F. Austin's original land grant from Mexico. The William Kincheloe family donated land on the east bank of the Colorado River for a courthouse square, and the home…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TFC_site-of-world-war-ii-prisoner-of-war-camp-historical_Wharton-TX.html
Included in a land grant awarded in 1824 to Martin Allen, one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" colonists, this property has had a long and varied history. In the 1840s Allen's heirs sold most of his land to Albert Clinton Horton, Wharton…