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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH97_hotel-provident-and-heierman-building_Austin-TX.html
Built in 1887, apparently as a hotel, for Tom Smith. Contractor was Austin Mayor Joseph Nalle. The "Hotel Provident" operated under various names until the 1920s. In conjunction with the hotel, the lower floor housed numerous businesses, including…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8Z_hirshfeld-house_Austin-TX.html
Henry Hirshfeld (1834-1911), a native of Germany, was a prominent Austin merchant and a leader in the city's Jewish community. In 1873 he and his wife Jennie (Melasky) built a one-story limestone cottage on the lot west of this site. Because of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8X_hirshfeld-cottage_Austin-TX.html
German native Henry Hirshfeld (1834-1911) migrated to the United States at the age of fifteen. After working with his two uncles in Mobile, Alabama, he moved to Georgetown (28 mi. N), where he enlisted in the Confederate Army.
Following his ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8U_hugh-b-hancock-house_Austin-TX.html
Built in 1886, this house was originally located on 7th Street in the Robertson Hill area of East Austin. It was constructed for Hugh B. Hancock, a successful black businessman of the city. In 1904 it was sold to German native Charles Frederick Ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH8T_governor-andrew-jackson-hamilton_Austin-TX.html
Nicknamed "Colossal Jack" because of his imposing stature and his oratorical skill, A.J. Hamilton was born in Alabama. He migrated to Texas about 1846. A lawyer, he served as acting Attorney General of Texas in 1850. His residence once stood one m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH72_grinninger-fence_Austin-TX.html
First known use of barbed wire in Texas (1857), by John Grinninger, immigrant from Europe, worker in an early Austin iron foundry. Grinninger, who lived on Waller Creek (NE of here) grew fruit, vegetables and flowers. To protect garden, he ran hom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH70_apa-das-pontas-de-copacabana-e-arpoador_Rio-de-Janeiro-RJ.html
[The text on the right of the marker is in English]:The Environmental Protection Area (APA) of Copacabana and Arpoador Promontories was created by Municipal Law No. 2.087/94 to protect its rocky coast and native plant life species. The APA has the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH6Z_gilfillan-house_Austin-TX.html
This residence was constructed in 1905 for William L. Gilfillan (d.1932), one of the founders and directors of the Austin National Bank. Designed by the prominent Austin architect Charles H. Page, Jr., the two-story brick home reflects a mixture o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH6X_gethsemane-church_Austin-TX.html
The first Lutheran church in Travis County. Organized Dec. 12, 1868, by Swedish pioneers under leadership of Swante Palm.
Site of first church building was 11 blocks SW; this structure was erected in 1883. It contains stone hauled in wheelbarro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH6W_german-free-school_Austin-TX.html
German Free School Education was a primary concern for the new German immigrants who arrived in Texas in the 1840s and 1850s. Although Texas did not have a system of free public education at that time, it did offer subsidies for students attending…