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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Y8_buda-christian-church_Buda-TX.html
Organized in 1893, the Buda Christian Church met in the Methodist church building until a church was built on this site in 1903. After it was destroyed in a 1909 storm, this structure was built in 1912. Membership began to decline in the 1940s, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27Y5_first-baptist-church-of-buda_Buda-TX.html
In July 1882, the year after the founding of Du Pre, now Buda, M. Lawson, A. Teague and W. A. Hancock petitioned the San Marcos Baptist Association for the formation of this church. The first pastor was the Rev. D. A. Porter, ordained in the nearb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R2L_antioch-colony_Buda-TX.html
Antioch Colony was a rural farming community formed during Reconstruction by a group of formerly enslaved African Americans. Although freed from slavery after the Civil War, African Americans still found it difficult to purchase land. In 1859, Ang…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IQX_mcelroy-severn-house_Buda-TX.html
The complex that includes the McElroy-Severn House/Stagecoach House and Onion Creek Post Office occupies a 51-acre tract of land on a high bluff above a branch leading into Onion Creek, about a quarter mile east of Buda. The post office and stagec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZT1_buda_Buda-TX.html
Originally known as Du Pre, Buda was founded along a line of the International and Great Northern Railroad. Cornelia A. Trimble gave land for the townsite in 1881. The name "Buda" was adopted in the late 1880s, although its origin is unclear. Acco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRU_dr-jacob-tally-wilhite_Buda-TX.html
Born on a farm near this site, Jacob Tally Wilhite received his early education in the public schools of the Willow Springs community. He attended the University of Texas in Austin and taught school in Bastrop County before continuing his studies …
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