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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PX_first-presbyterian-church_Georgetown-TX.html
The Rev. William Mumford Baker presided over this congregation's organization in 1854 at the Round Rock home of Richard and Mary Agnes (Cooper) Sansom. By 1856, the church was meeting in Georgetown, where C.A.D. Clamp deeded a site (at 4th and Myr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K7_farmers-state-bank-building_Georgetown-TX.html
The Merchants and Farmers Bank began in 1898 and incorporated as Farmers State Bank in 1905. In 1910, bank officers contracted for the building of a new bank onto existing commercial property at this site. Construction was finished in 1912. In the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JL_evangelical-free-church_Georgetown-TX.html
Swedish immigrant settlers in Williamson County met together in homes for worship services as early as 1884. In 1891 this congregation was organized in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sven Peterson by 21 charter members. Known as Brushy Evangelical Free …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IX_emzy-taylor_Georgetown-TX.html
Arkansas native Emzy Taylor clerked in his father's Georgetown square mercantile store before serving as a Confederate Captain in the Red River valley during the Civil War. He married Margaret Henderson in 1864 while on furlough and after the war …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HE_easley-home_Georgetown-TX.html
A native of South Carolina, Samuel Allen Easley (1851-1933) came to Texas with his parents at the age of one. They settled on a large amount of acreage along the San Gabriel River in Williamson County. After managing the family farm for much of hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AO_david-love-store_Georgetown-TX.html
South Carolina native David M. Love (1821-1892) was an early settler of Wiliamson County. He was engaged in farming and ranching before moving to Georgetown in the 1860s. A prominent local business leader, he had this Victorian commercial structur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18H_cooper-sansom-house_Georgetown-TX.html
The Belford Lumber Co. built this home in 1910 for local attorney Cooper Sansom (1863-1928). A former newspaperman, Sansom served as city attorney and later as state representive and district judge. An active civic leader, he was also prominent in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM175_community-of-jonah_Georgetown-TX.html
On 1820s land grant to Nashville colony. Settled 1851 by wagon train from Arkansas, and called Water Valley. In 1884, repeated ill-luck in selecting an acceptable name for Post Office led to ranaming the town Jonah. This was site of famed Grist Mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16G_city-of-weir_Georgetown-TX.html
Tenessee-native Thomas Calvin Weir (1826-1901) came to Williamson County in 1856. He bought land in this area and became a prosperous farmer. Alabaman James Francis Towns (1850-1937) came in 1870 and settled nearby on the San Gabriel River. He and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11C_c-a-d-clamp_Georgetown-TX.html
Christian Augustus Daniel Clamp was born in Thorn, Prussia (now Torun, Poland). He came to Texas in 1846 and moved to Georgetown in 1851, a year after his marriage to Asenath C. Davis (d. 1917). A skilled carpenter and cabinetmaker, Clamp became o…