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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29JL_williams-administration-building_College-Station-TX.html
The Williams Building (1932) was designed by architect S. C. P. Vosper in a classical revival
style as the headquarters for the Texas A&M System. The building faced the new state highway symbolizing the shift from train to automobile travel. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29JH_k-k-legett-hall-centennial_College-Station-TX.html
Built in 1911, Legett Hall is the oldest residence hall on campus and one of two remaining along Military Walk. Named for Judge Kirvin Kade Legett (1857-1926) of Abilene, President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Board of Direc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29JG_sbisa-dining-hall_College-Station-TX.html
Sbisa Dining Hall (1913) was designed by campus architect Frederick E. Giesecke to replace the castle-like 1897 mess hall that burned in 1911. It anchors the north end of Military Walk whose south terminus was Guion Assembly Hall (1918-1971). A on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29JF_francis-hall_College-Station-TX.html
Rolland Adelsperger, College Architect and Professor of Architecture and Architectural Engineering designed Francis Hall in a highly distinctive romanesque style in 1913 for the
School of Veterinary Medicine. The proposed design exceeded the budg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM291A_texas-a-m-corps-of-cadets_College-Station-TX.html
Soon after its opening in 1876, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M) established the Corps of Cadets to fulfill its mandate to instruct its students (all-male until the early 1960s) in military science. A&M contributed more…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM290A_early-play-by-play-radio-broadcast-of-a-college-football-game_College-Station-TX.html
In 1920, David J. Finn and other Texas A&M electrical engineering students attempted to broadcast the football game at Oklahoma A&M via ham radio. When the plan failed they used a telephone backup, relaying game updates to fans gathered in the Tex…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2908_early-texas-a-m-campus-housing_College-Station-TX.html
When Texas A&M University opened in 1876, it was four miles from Bryan, the nearest town, and the need for campus housing for faculty and staff arose. The first of the campus houses, five brick homes along the east side of Throckmorton Street, wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XB1_texas-a-m-university-historical_College-Station-TX.html
The State Legislature authorized the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas April 17, 1871, under terms of the Federal Morrill Act. Constitutionally a part of a chartered, yet-unorganized state university, A&M gained its own directorate in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XB0_shiloh-community-historical_College-Station-TX.html
Settled in the 1860s by Czech, German, and Polish immigrants, the Shiloh community was an area of large family farms. In addition to homes and farms, the settlement at one time boasted a community center, a two-room school, a vineyard, a mill, and…