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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBH_commemorating_San-Antonio-TX.html
The 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signing ceremony which occurred in this place on October 7, 1992 between the countries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBF_original-site-of-st-philips-college_San-Antonio-TX.html
Opening at this site in 1898 as "St. Philip's Saturday evening sewing class for black girls", this college was found by the Rt. Rev. James Steptoe Johnston (1843-1924), Episcopal Bishop of western Texas, who considered education a tool toward solv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBE_john-w-smith_San-Antonio-TX.html
Great early San Antonio leader, a native of North Carolina. Moved to Illinois, then to Missouri, where he was sheriff of Rawls County in 1824. Came to Texas with Green DeWitt in 1826 and settled at Gonzales.
Smith moved to San Antonio in 1828 a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBD_the-german-english-school-buildings_San-Antonio-TX.html
Erected as a school for children of German settlers, these historic buildings have served numerous educational and cultural purposes:
1858 - German-English school founded by "The Lateiner", a group of German intellectuals.
1859 - Purchase…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KAL_halff-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Mayer Halff (1836-1905) immigrated to Texas from Lauterborg, Alsace Lorraine, France, in 1850. In partnership with his brother Solomon, he opened a mercantile business in Liberty and began a cattle ranching enterprise. They moved to San Antonio in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HHJ_letter-from-the-alamo_San-Antonio-TX.html
Commandancy of the Alamo,
Bexar, Feby. 24th, 1836-
To the people of Texas & all Americans in the world—
Fellow citizens and compatriots
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans and Santa Anna - I have sustained a c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HHI_the-alamo-el-alamo_San-Antonio-TX.html
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The Alamo
Mission San Antonio de Valero — famed as The Alamo — founded 1718 by Spanish Missionaries. Secularized 1793. Garrison for Spanish Cavalry and Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras y Alamo. Between February 23 and Ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM179V_t-c-frost_San-Antonio-TX.html
(monument text): (1833-1903) Educator Attorney Public Servant soldier merchant banker
(plaque text): "Thomas Claiborne Frost (1833 - 1903)Born in Jackson County, Alabama in 1833, T. C. Frost graduated from Irving College in Tennessee before ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15ME_little-church-of-la-villita_San-Antonio-TX.html
In 1846, the Rev. J.W. De Vilbiss bought a Methodist Church site (across street) in this block. He set up a bell, to denote worship site, but did not build when lot title proved defective. In 1879, German Methodists erected this Gothic Revival Chu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15M4_staacke-brothers-building_San-Antonio-TX.html
Designed by prominent Texas Architect James Riely Gordon (1864-1937), this structure was built in 1894 to house the successful carriage business of German immigrant August Frederick Staacke (d.1909). An excellent example of the architecture of a d…