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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17S_confederate-chaplains_Round-Rock-TX.html
Brothers, teachers, Presbyterian ministers. Came to Texas from Arkansas, 1856. Worked and lived in this county. Both are buried in Round Rock Cemetery.
In the Civil War, Rev. Edward Hudson in March 1862 joined Co. G, 6th Regiment, Confederate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17J_community-of-theon_Jarrell-TX.html
Attracted to the rich farm land, immigrants from Austria, Bohemia, Germany, Moravia and Silesia came here in the 1880s-90s. This community grew around a cotton gin built about 1883. A Catholic church and school operated at nearby Corn Hill. A post…
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/HM167_city-of-taylor_Taylor-TX.html
When the International & Great Northern Railroad built across Williamson County in 1876, one of the towns created along its route was "Taylorsville," named for railroad executive Moses Taylor. Lots were sold in June, and the post office opened on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM166_champion-cemetery_Cedar-Park-TX.html
John (Jack) Champion (1817-1908) was a native of York County, South Carolina. He moved to Texas by 1850, the year he and Naomi Jane Standefer (1834-1862) were issued a marriage license in Williamson County. In 1854, Champion bought more than 200 a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15R_cedar-park-cemetery_Cedar-Park-TX.html
George W. and Harriet Cluck settled in this area with their family in the early 1870s, soon after they returned from a cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail. They built a log home and were instrumental in the community's development. In 1901, upon th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13H_cotton-cards-factory_Taylor-TX.html
Near this site in 1862-65. Used power from the San Gabriel River. Chartered by Confederate Texas during re-tooling of agricultural economy to meet demands of the Civil War years. Because trade of bales of cotton for finished cloth was no longer pr…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10V_burcham-house_Georgetown-TX.html
Designed by noted Austin architect Charles H. Page, this home was built for the family of Georgetown dentist William Joseph Burcham (1876-1932) in 1908-09. Both Dr. Burcham and his wife Mayme (1882-1962) were civic and cultural leaders of the comm…