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A Survey of Texas Historical Markers •In Brazos County, Texas Brazos County Historical Commission 1994
LISTING OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN TEXAS Enclosed is a list of all Official Texas Historical Markers in Texas in Brazos Countycompleted through 1989. This list is in two
parts, 1936-1982 and 1983-1989. Please note that there are two types of OTHMs. "Subject markers" are for historic figures, cemeteries, events, groups, and some buildings. They are solely
educational in nature and convey no legal restrictions or protection to the property upon which they are erected. "Building markers" are for structures with historical and architectural
significance. These buildings are formally designated as Recorded Texas Historic landmarks, and the designation brings a degree of legal protection to such structures. The enclosed list
contains eight columns, whose headings are as follows: Marker Title, location, City, County, *Category Code, Year (year placed), **RTHl/Medallion Number, ***Size and Type of Marker,
and REPl (the year the "original" marker was replaced). * The Category Code (also indicated by Cl, Cl, C2 and C3), indicates the subject and content of the marker. A marker would have
up to three codes. An explanation of the Category Codes is enclosed. ** Markers having a notation in the RTHl/Meda11ion column are RTHls. If there is not a notation in this column, the
marker is a subject marker. (RTHl notations are generally for our internal use only and tell what size marker was issued. There are three types of notations. An "R" followed by 4 digits
indicates that the marker contains a med~llion, and the 4-digit number is the medallion's i.d. number. In these instances, the marker style will be either S or l, two types normally
used for subject markers. The "RUNK" notation indicates the marker does contain a medallion, but that its i.d. number is unknown.) *** The size and type of marker is as follows: B -Building
marker (medallion &interpretive plate)S -Small subject marker l -large subject marker G -Grave marker M -Medallion only P -Private, state approved marker C -1936 centennial marker CW
+ l, S, or G -marker placed during the Civil War centennial celebration Please note that this is a listing of markers we have issued in this area -it is not necessarily a complete list
of those which currently exist. Each year, many markers are vandalized, stolen, relocated, or "lost" due to street name changes, and sometimes these developments are not reported to
us. If you plan to field-check any markers and discover that an entry needs updating (i.e. the marker has been stolen, etc.), we would appreciate it if you would notify us in writing
so that we may update our list and files. Thank you. Egina G. Kaase Office Manager local History Programs Texas Historical Commission 512/463-6100
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY October 15, 1998 (rev.) (Name of marker, date marker installed, location) 1. Brazos County (1936) could not be located. 2. Albert Gallatin
(1936), 12 miles NW on FM #974 to Tabor, 3 miles NW to Bickham Cemetery, Bryan. 3. Site of the Town of Boonville (1936), 3 miles E on FM #158, Bryan. 4. Millican, C.S.A. (1962), 16 miles
S of Brazos County Courthouse at intersection of FM #2154 & FM #159, Bryan. 5. Harvey Mitchell (1965), Brazos County Courthouse grounds, Bryan. 6. Brazos County Confederate Commissioners
Couort, 1861-1865 (1965), Bryan. 7. William Joel Bryan (1965), Brazos County Courthouse grounds, Bryan. 8. First Baptist Church (1966), 27th & Washington Streets, Bryan. 9. Carnegie
Public Library (1969), 111 S. Main Street, Bryan. 10. The Brazos River (1969), FM #60. Approximately 4.6 miles west from intersection of FM#2818 and FM#60 at last survey, July 3-16,1993.
College Station. To date cannot not be located. 11. Route ofE! Camino Real (1968 on State State records. Marker shows "1973." Possible replacement?), outside of Bryan city limits. 12.
Robert Henry (March 7, 1801 -October 29, 1865) (1970), Old Rye Field Cemetery, off Old Spanish Road, 4.75 miles NW of Brazos County Courthouse. Travel SW on OSR, right on Mumford road,
left on Rye Loop. First gate on right after the intersection of Rye Loop and Allen. Walk through two gates to tree line. Large cemetery on right and on the left is a smaller cemetery
with a chain link fence. Robert Henry's gravesite is located in a comer of the smaller cemetery. Near Mumford. 13. First Presbyterian Church (1970), intersection of Carter Creek Parkway
and Gordon Street, Bryan. 14. Site of Odd Fellows University and Orphans Home (1972), 26th and Preston Streets, Bryan. 15. First Public School in Bryan (1973), 1200 Baker Street, Bryan.
16. Alexander Cemetery (1974), 9 miles N off FM #946. Tum right on Colette Lane and right again on FM #2223 to OSR. Tum left to Benchley. 17. Black Education in Bryan (1975), E. 20th
Street, between Houston & Preston Streets, Bryan. 18. First Methodist Church of Bryan (formerly known as Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Located at 506 E. 28th Stret. Now known as
First United Methodist Church) (1976). Corner of 27th & Houston Street, Bryan. 19. Texas A&M University (1978{State Records}. Marker shows 1979). A&M Campus, SH #6 Business off Texas
Ave. East Gate entrance to campus. On right side as you tum off Texas A venue. College Station. 20. Allen Academy. First Marker.(1978). Located 22nd Street at Ursuline Avenue, now site
of Women's Federal Prison. Second Marker. (1998). Located at 3201 FM #158. 21. Astin-Porter Home (1980), 600 E. 29th Street, Bryan. 22. E.J. Jenkins House (1982), 607 E. 27th Street,
Bryan. 23. Waldrop House (1983), 615 E. 29th Street, Bryan. 24. Wilkerson House (1983), 614 E. 29th Street, Bryan. 25. Wesa Weddington (1983), Gravesite, Boonville Cemetery, FM #158,
E of SH #6, Bryan. 26. Richard Carter Homesite (1984), Richard Carter Park, Brazoswood Drive, Eon Hwy #30, left left on frontage road of E Bypass, left on Brazoswood Drive, College Station.
27. McMichael-Wilson House (1985),712 E. 30th Street, Bryan. 28. Eugene Edge Home (1985), 508 E. 30th Street, Bryan. 29. Moravian (Czech) Cemetery (1986), 0.25 miles NW of Knightsbridge
and Warwick Street intersection in Copperfield Addition. Located in field at the end of the alley between house numbers 5913 and 5909 Knightsbridge. Gate access is locked and area posted,
Bryan. 30. Early Texas A&M Campus Housing (1986), Throckmorton Street. Texas A&M University, across from the Corps Center in a small park, College Station.
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY October 15, 1998 (rev.) (Name of marker, date marker installed, location) 31. The Women's Club of Bryan (1989), 1200 Carter Creek Parkway,
Bryan. 32. A&M Consolidated Rural School (1990), 2118 Welsh Street, College Station. 33. Edge House (Eugen Edge House) (1991),609 S. Ennis (2 blocks NE of Carter Creek Parkway), Bryan.
34. Shiloh Community (1991),2604 Texas Avenue, College Station Cemetery, College Station. 35. Rock Prairie School & Church (1992), 105 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, 36. St. Andrew's
Episcopal Church (1992), 26th & Parker Streets, Bryan. 37. Steele's Store Community (1992), 10 miles SW of Bryan on FM #50, 2.4 miles from intersection of SH #21 and FM #50, outside
of Bryan city limits. 38. Charlie Eric Jenkins (1993), Bryan City Cemetery, 1111 N. Texas Ave., Bryan. 39. College Station Railroad Depots (1994), 200 feet NE of the intersection of
Welborn Road (FM #2154) and old Main Drive, on the Texas A&M University campus, College Station. 40. St. Joseph School (1994), 109 North Preston, Bryan. 41. Bryan & College Station Interurban
Railway (1995), 400 block of College Main, Bryan. 42. Cavitt House (1996), Sanders Corps Center, Throckmorton Street, Texas A&M University campus, College Station. 43. Corps of Cadets
(1996), Sanders Corps Center, Throckmorton Street, Texas A&M University campus, College Station. 44. Wixon Cemetery (1996), proceed from Brazos County Courthouse 1 mile N on Hwy 6 Business
Route (Texas Avenue) to intersection of Hwy #21, right 5.9 miles to FM #2776, left .3 mile. Cemetery is located on right. 45. African American Education in College Station (1997), Lincoln
Center, 1000 Eleanor, College Station, Texas. 46. The First Natioinal Bank of Bryan (1997), 2807 Texas Avenue South, Bryan. 47. St. Joseph Catholic Church (1997), 600 E. 26th., Bryan.
48. James Wilson (1997), New Church Cemetery. Macey Road, offFM #974, north ofHwy #21. Approximately 15 miles NE of Bryan. Edge Community.
/HISTORICAL MARKER CATEGORY CODES/AC Archeology/Archeological sites AG Agriculture AN Animals (includes wild and domestic animals) AR Artists AS Asian Immigrants AV Aviation (includes
aerospace) BG Buildings (includes government and municipal buildings) BK Banks and Bankers BL Black topicsBR Bridges BS Bandstands BT Boats and ships (include ferries)BU Business leaders
BY Botany (include flowers, domestic and wild plants) CA Cattle (includes cattle brands, cattle drives, cattle trails)CB Cabins and log houses CH Churches (includes church bells)CM Camp
meetingsCO Counties CS Communication (includes radio and television)CT Courthouse CW Cowboys and cattlemen CY Cities and towns DC Design and construction (includes architects, buildings,
carpentry, lime kilns) DG Dugouts DU Duels ED Educational topics (includes academies, colleges, schools, universities, teachers,and educators)EM EmpressariosEX Expeditions and explorations
EU European immigrantsFD Fires and fire departmentsFL FlagsFM Farms FN Fences FO Fraternal organizations and clubs FP Federal Programs (includes WPA< CCC)FR Fairs and celebrations (includes
circuses) FT Forts GE Geology (includes caverns, canyons, minerals)GR Graves and death sites GY Graveyards, cemeteries HO Hospital s HR Health resorts HU HUmanitarian topics (social
IN Inns and hotels IS Iron and steel IV Inventors and inventions JA Jail s JU JudgesKI Kitchens and restaurants programs, poor farms) LB Lumber topics (includes forests, trees, and the
lumber industry)LD Land development (includes land surveys and companies, promotional towns)Libraries LL Homes (local landmarks) LT LighthousesLV Livery stables (includes wagon yards)LW
Law and lawyers LI
, ././MG ./MD MK ML Manufacturing topics Physicians and medical topics Markets and mercantile (includes merchants, mercantile buildings) Military topics (includes armies, battles, soldiers,
military units, wars, some expeditions) MM Museum MN Missions MO Monuments MS Mills (includes textiles, fibers, cotton gins) MT MU Mountains and mountain passes Music MX Mexico NA NB
Native Americans (includes Indian fights, Neighborhoods massacres and treaties) NW OF OL OP OR OU Newspapers Officials, city and county (includes sheriffs) Oil (includes petroleum and
boomtowns) Opera houses and theaters Orphanages and similar institutions (homes for unwed mothers) Outlaws PI Pioneers PL Plantations PO Post offices and postal routes PR Priests, ministers,
padres, rabbis PT Patriots PZ RD RG Plazas, parks, and squares Roads (includes traces and paths) Rangers RN Ranches RR SC SF SG SM SN Railroad topics (includes railroad commissioners,
streetcars, Scientific topics (includes astronomy and climatology) Sports figures Stage routes, stage stands, and stage coaches Settlements (includes colonies and ghost towns) Saloons
and interurban) ST TP Storms (includes hurricanes, Trading posts tornadoes and other weather topics) WA WL WN Water topics (includes coastal waterways, creeks, canals, harbors, lakes,
rivers) Wildlife management Women WO WR Wool industry Writers and poets YO Youth organizations
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER BRAZOS COUNTY CREATED FROM ROBERTSON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN 1841. FIRST CALLED NAVASOTA, CHANGED 1842 TO BRAWS AFfER TWO RIVERS ON COUNTY'S BOUNDARIES.
ORGANIZED IN 1843, WITH BOONEVILLE AS COUNTY SEAT; BRYAN COUNTY SEAT SINCE 1866. AREA ORIGINALLY INCLUDED IN STEPHEN F. AUSTIN'S SECOND COLONY, 1828. BECAME A PART OF THE WASHINGTON
MUNICIPALITY, 1837, UNDER THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT. FIRST RAILROAD REACHED MILLICAN IN 1860. A.&M. UNIVERSITY OPENED, 1876. ECONOMY BASED ON AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES.
1996 (THIS NEW REPLACEMENT PLATE PLACED IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER, 1967)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Brazos County Location: Could not be located City: Bryan Category Code:
CO (Counties) Year: 1936 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: C (1936 Centennial Marker) REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): The original marker was replaced
in 1967 after it had been stolen. To date neither the 1936 nor the 1967 marker can be located. Current Condition: Unknown Need for Repairs or Replacement: Unknown Additional Remarks:
Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER ALBERT GALLATIN AL BERT GALLATIN PARTICIPATED IN THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO. ERECTED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS 1957. IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE, OUR FATHER, ALBERT
GALLATIN, BORN AUG. 10, 1809, DIED FEB. 16, 1898. A PRECIOUS ONE FROM US IS GONE. A VOICE WE LOVED IS VACANT IN OUR HOME WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED.
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Albert Gallatin Location: 12 miles northwest on FM #974 to Tabor. 3 miles
northwest to Bickham Cemetery. City: Bryan Category Code: ML (Military topics) Year: 1936 RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: C (1936 Centennial marker) REPL (The year
the "original" marker was replaced) N/A Current Condition: Stone needs cleaning. Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Marker reads: "Albert Gallatin, Participated
in the Battle of San Jacinto. Erected by the State of Texas, 1957" Ro113, # 1-3 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
SITE OF. THE TO\t:>i MF SOONV1LLE OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER SITE OF THE TOWN OF BOONVILLE ESTABLISHED IN 1841 AS THE COUNTY SEAT OF NAV ASOT A COUNTY BY JOHN MILLICAN, JOHN H.
JONES, J. FERGUSON, E. SEALE, AND MORDECAI BOON WHOSE NAME IT BEARS. THE NAME OF THE COUNTY WAS CHANGED TO BRAZOS IN 1842. BOONVILLE FLOURISHED UNTIL 1866 WHEN BRYAN WAS ESTABLISHED
ON THE RAILROAD. ERECTED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS, 1936
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Site of the Town of Boonville Location: 3 miles east on FM #158. City:
Bryan Category Code: LD (Land development) Year: 1936 RTHL (The year the ft originalft marker was replaced): NtA Size & Type of Marker: 5' T x 31" W. Granite stone. "Erected by the State
of Texas. 1936" Medallion (8 1/2" dm) on stone. Text engraved into stone. Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #20 in negative file.
Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER MILLICAN. C.S.A. MILLICAN WAS TEXAS NORTHERNMOST RAILROAD WHEN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES BEGAN IN 1861. IT BECAME A VITAL CONFEDERATE SHIPPING POINT
FOR THE AREA EXTENDING TO THE RED RIVER ON THE NORTH AND TO THE FRONTIER/SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST. THE PRODUCTS OF THAT REGION MOVED OVER THE RAILS OF THE HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD
FROM MILLICAN TO HOUSTON, BEAUMONT, GALVESTON AND ALLEYTON. CONFEDERATE TROOPS CAME BY RAIL TO NEARBY CAMP SPEIGHT. A TRAINING AND RENDEZVOUS POINT MANY MARCHED OVERLAND FROM HERE FOR
DUTY IN ARKANSAS AND LOUISIANA. OTHERS ENTRAINED HER E FOR HOUSTON AND BEAUMONT WHERE THEY BOARDED SHIPS FOR NEBLETTS LANDING ON THE SABINE AND OTHER DEBARKATION POINTS. DURING THE WAR
COTTON FROM NORTH TEXAS AND THE BRAZOS VALLEY WENT TO MARKET THROUGH MILLICAN TO ALLEYTON. THE STATES SOUTHERNMOST RAILROAD TERMINUS WHERE IT WAS TRANSPORTED OVER THE COTTON ROAD BY
WAGONS AND CARTS TO BROWNSVILLE AND MATAMORUS,MEXICO. RETURNING WAGONS AND CARTS BROUGHT MILITARY SUPPLIES AND MERCHANDISE WHICH EVENTUALLY REACHED MILLICAN BY RAIL FOR WIDE DISTRIBUTION.
MILLICAN, WHICH HAD BEEN BORN WITH THE COMING OF THE RAILROAD IN 1859, FLOURISHED WITH THE RAILROAD AND DECLINED WITH THE NORTHWARD EXTENSION OF THE RAILROAD THAT BEGAN IN 1866. A MEMORIAL
TO TEXANS WHO SERVED THE CONFEDERACY
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Millican, C.S.A. Location: 16 miles south of Brazos County Courthouse at
intersection of FM 2154 & FM 159. City: Bryan Category Code: CY (Cities and towns) Year: 1962 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size and Type of Marker: Large: 49 1/2" T x 36" W. CW + L (Marker
placed during Civil War Centennial Celebration.) On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good. Some mold. Need for Repairs or Replacement:
No Additional Remarks: No site markers along highway to indicate "historical marker." RollI, # 0-2 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER HARVEY MITCHELL (1821-1901) CAME TO TEXAS FROM TENNESSEE IN 1839, AND J OINED "MINUTE MEN" PROTECTING NORTH FRONTIER FROM TRINITY TO BRAZOS RIVER. MOVED
TO BRAZOS COUNTY. SERVED 1842-1853 IN COUNTY OFFICES: DEPUTY CLERK, COUNTY CLERK, SURVEYOR, CHIEF JUSTICE. TAUGHT SCHOOL, HAD A STORE, FARMED. LED IN BUILDING CHURCHES, ALSO BRAZOS COUNTY
COURTHOUSES OF 1846, 1853,1878. DURING CIVIL WAR, WAS ASSESSOR OF CONFEDERATE STATE TAXES. AS A MEMBER OF A LOCAL COMMITTEE HIS DETERMINATION AND TACT SECURED THE LOCATION OF THE A&M
COLLEGE OF TEXAS FOR HIS COUNTY. HE RIGHTLY DESERVES TITLE: "FATHER OF BRAZOS COUNTY." (1965)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Harvey Mitchell Location: Brazos County Courthouse grounds. City: Bryan
Category Code: OF (Officials, city and county [included sheriffs]) Year: 1965 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (28"T x 18"W). On post. REPL (The year the "original"
marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Fair Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs repainting. Post needs repainting. Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #13 in negative file.
Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER BRAZOS COUNTY CONFEDERATE COMMISSIONERS COURT (1861-1865) FURNISHED HORSES, EQUIPMENT AND CLOTHING FOR COUNTY MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR. LEVIED WAR TAXES
ON PROPERTY EXEMPTING LANDS OR ESTATES OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. AFTER SURVEYING TO DETERMINE NEEDS OF THE FAMILIES OF BRAZOS SOLDIERS, APPROPRIATED FUNDS TO CARE FOR THEM. GAVE CREDITS
FOR CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY CITIZENS TO SOLDIERS' DEPENDENTS. ISSUED COUNTY WARRANTS FOR 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2, $3 AND $5 THAT PASSED AS LEGAL TENDER. OBTAINED FOR RESALE TO THE CITIZENS SCARCE
POWDER, LEAD, GUN CAPS, MEDICINES, SHOES, COTTON CARDS, CLOTH, SHOE MAKERS' TOOLS. (1965)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Brazos County Confederate Commissioners Court, 1861-1865 Location: Brazos
County Courthouse grounds. City: Bryan Category Code: OF (Officials, city and county [includes sheriffs]) Year: 1965 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (28"T x 18"W)
On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Poor Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs repainting. Letters need resilvering. Post
needs repainting. Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #14 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER TOWN NAMED FOR WILLIAM JOEL BRYAN (1814 -1903) NATIVE OF MISSOURI. MEMBER OF PROMINENT FAMILY WHO WERE TEXAS STATESMEN, PLANTERS, DEVELOPERS. GRANDSON
OF MOSES AUSTIN, WHO OBTAINED FROM MEXICO CHARTER FOR AMERICAN COLONY IN TEXAS, BUT DIED BEFORE MAKING SETTLEMENT. NEPHEW OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN, "FATHER OF TEXAS," WHO ACTUALLY ESTABLISHED
THE COLONY. CAME TO TEXAS WITH HIS MOTHER, EMILY AUSTIN BRYAN PERRY, IN 1831. DURING TEXAS REVOLUTION, FOUGHT IN BATTLE OF BEXAR, 1835. FOR SEVENTY-ONE YEARS WAS A PLANTER ON LAND NEAR
PEACH POINT, WHERE THE BACHELOR STEPHEN F. AUSTIN HAD A ROOM RESERVED FOR HIM IN PERRY HOME. AS ELDEST NEPHEW, INHERITED FAMILY LEADERSHIP WHEN STEPHEN F. AUSTIN DIED IN 1836.BACKED
HIS BROTHERS' CAREERS, ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF GUY M. BRYAN, U.S. CONGRESSMAN 1858-1860, AND FOR MANY YEARS A LEADER IN TEXAS GOVERNMENT. DURING THE CIVIL WAR, CARED FOR BUSINESS INTERESTS
OF HIS FOUR SONS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. AT HIS OWN EXPENSE FED CONFEDERATE TROOPS STATIONED NEAR HIS PLANTATION TO DEFEND THE TEXAS COAST. BACKED THE CONSTRUCTION OF DEEP WATER HARBOR
AT MOUTH OF THE BRAZOS. DURING BUILDING OF HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD DONA TED SITE FOR BRYAN, WHICH IN 1866 BECAME COUNTY SEAT OF BRAZOS COUNTY. (1965)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: William Joel Bryan Location: Brazos County Courthouse grounds. City: Bryan
Category Code: ML (Military topics) Year: 1965 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42" T x 27" W). On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A
Current Condition: Poor Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs repainting. Text needs resilvering. Post needs repainting. Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #15 in negative file.
Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
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dCJi~ZrJJ~ SJI!C E rr: FC,' f .:, 'J~ ;'. 1 J!.J "rrJJ ;~ Jj 'f0 ~E E;!: C ,E:, ~! •• :-. .s $l-r,: ':; ;1 C': 'J:; :: ~. OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER 1866-1966 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
BRYAN, TEXAS "BRYAN STATION, BRAZOS COUNTY, NOV.21, 1866...1 HOPE A BETTER DAY IS DAWNING. FOR LAST SABBATH A BAPTIST CHURCH WAS ORGANIZED HERE AND SIXTEEN MEMBERS UNITED WITH IT," WROTE
MRS. SARAH DODSON. ONE BLOCK WEST OF THIS SITE STOOD FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP. A TWO-STORY FRAME BUILDING THAT ONCE WAS A TEN PIN ALLEY AND SALOON; THE FIRST PEWS WERE PLANKS LAID ON KEGS.
REV. W.B. EAVES WAS THE FIRST PASTOR. THE PRESENT CHURCH SANCTUARY, ERECTED 1927, IS SEVENTH HOUSE OF WORSHIP SINCE ITS FOUNDING AND THIRD TO BE ERECTED ON THIS SITE SINCE 1883. (1966)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: First Baptist Church Location: 27th & Washington Streets City: Bryan Category
Code: CH (Churches) Year: 1966 RTHL/Medallion Number: N/A Size & Type of Marker: S (281fT x 18"W). Mounted on concrete slab on ground. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced):
N/A Current Condition: Fair Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs painting. Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #12 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date:
July 3-16, 1993
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Bryan City Cemetery Location: 1111 N. Texas Avenue. City: Bryan Category
Code: GY (Graveyards and cemeteies) Year: 1968 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): Current Condition: Need for Repairs
or Replacement: Purchase of official marker under consideration (11/93) Additional Remarks: An official Texas Historical Marker was never purchased. Local committee had a privately cast
marker installed. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTER OF CULTURAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES IN BRYAN SINCE 1903. ESTABLISHED THROUGH INSPIRATION OF THE MUTUAL IMPROVMENT CLUB (RENAMED
THE WOMAN'S CLUB, 1909), UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MMES. LUCY MILEY BRANDON AND ROSE FOUNTAIN HOWELL, WHO WITH MODEST MEANS HAD SET THE LIBRARY GOAL IN 1899. AN APPEAL TO THE INDUSTRIAL
MAGNATE AND PHILANTHROPIST ANDREW CARNEGIE SECURED A GRANT OF $10,000 CONTINGENT UPON THE CITY'S GIVING A SITE AND PLEDGING MAINTENANCE FUNDS. IN ADDITION, PRIVATE PERSONS ALSO GAVE
FUNDS AND BOOKS. AUDITORIUM WAS SITE OF MANY GATHERINGS, FOREMOST BEING THE 1919 TO 1933 REUNIONS OF HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE ASSOCIATION. IN 1944, THE LIBRARY BOARD PRESIDENT, MRS. LEE
J. ROUNTREE, ESTABLISHED THE CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION WITH RESULT THAT THE ROUNTREE ROOM WAS OPENED ON CONVERTED SECOND FLOOR IN 1953. (ERECTED IN 1969)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Carnegie Public Library Location: 111 S. Main Street City: Bryan Category
Code: LI (Libraries) Year: 1969 RTHL/Medallion Number: R0822 Size & Type of Marker: Medallion only (13" diameter). Local committee had a privately cast marker installed. (24"T x 30"
W). Bulding markers indicating National Register Marker. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Fair Need for Repairs or Replacement: Marker is bronze.
Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #18 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER THE BRAZOS RIVER LARGEST RIVER BETWEEN THE RED AND THE RIO GRANDE. THE 840-MILE BRAZOS RISES IN 3 FORKS: THE SALT, CLEAR, AND DOUBLE MOUNTAIN FORKS.
ACCORDING TO LEGEND, THIS RIVER SAVED CORONADO'S EXPEDITION OF 15401542 FROM DYING OF THIRST, SO THE MEN THANKFULLY NAMED IT "LOS BRAZOS DE 0I0S" (ARMS OF GOD). ON ITS BANKS WERE FOUNDED
HISTORIC SAN FELIPE, CAPITAL OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN'S COLONY, AND WASHINGTON, WHERE IN 1836 TEXAS' DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS SIGNED.VAST PLANTATIONS THRIVED IN THE FERTILE BRAZOS
VALLEY, MAKING COTTON "KING" IN TEXAS UNTIL THE CIVIL WAR. (1969)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: The Brazos River Location: FM#60, approximately 4.6 miles west from the
interection ofFM#2818 and FM#60, at last survey, July 3-16, 1993. Cannot be located. City: Brazos County Category Code: WA (Water topics) Year: 1969 RTHLlMedalIion Number: None Size
& Type of Marker: S (28"T x 18"). On post. REPL (Tbe year tbe "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good at time of last survey, July 3-16, 1993 Need for Repairs or
Replacement: Missing. Needs replacement. Additional Remarks: Roll 3, #12 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: January 23, 1998
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER ROUTE OF EL CAMINO REAL (ALSO KNOWN AS OLD SAN ANTONIO ROAD AND OLD SPANISH ROAD) GREAT THOROUGHFARE OF PIONEER TEXAS, STRETCHING 1,000 MILES FROM SALTILLO,
MEXICO TO PRESENT LOUISIANA. THE GENERAL ROUTE FOLLOWED ANCIENT INDIAN AND BUFFALO TRAILS. BUT THE OLDEST MARKED PORTION, KNOWN AS "TRAIL OF THE PADRES," WAS BLAZED IN 1691 UNDER DOMINGO
TERAN DE LOS RIOS, FIRST GOVERNOR OF TEXAS. THIS PART JOINED MONCLOVA, THEN CAPITAL OF THE PROVINCE, TO THE SPANISH MISSIONS OF EAST TEXAS. SAN ANTONIO, MILITARY NERVE CENTER OF THE
REGION, WAS A MAJOR STOP. OVER THE CENTURIES, EXPLORERS, TRADERS, SMUGGLERS, ARMED MEN, AND CIVILIANS TRAVERSED THIS ROAD. IN 1820 MOSES AUSTIN TRAVELED IT TO SAN ANTONIO TO REQUEST
A LAND GRANT FROM SPANISH OFFICIALS. THE COLONIZING VENTURE HE STARTED LATER BROUGHT THOUSANDS OF ANGLO-AMERICANS OVER THE ROAD TO HELP SETTLE TEXAS. IN 1915 THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE APPROPRIATED
$5,000 TO SURVEY AND MARK THE ROUTE. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND OTHER PATRIOTIC GROUPS SPONSORED AND ENDORSED THE PROJECT, AND V.N. ZIVLEY WAS COMMISSIONED TO MAKE
THE SURVEY. IN 1918 THE STATE AND D.A.R. PLACED GRANITE MARKERS APPROXIMATELY EVERY FIVE MILES ALONG THE TEXAS SECTION OF THE ROAD. TODAY MANY MODERN HIGHWAYS, PARTICULARLY STATE 21,
FOLLOW THE ORIGINAL ROUTE OF EL CAMINO REAL. (1973)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Route of EI Camino Real Location: 8 miles southwest of Brazos County Courthouse
on SH #21. City: Outside of Bryan city limits. Category Code: RD (Roads) Year: 1968 on State records. Marker shows "1973" Possible replacement? RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type
of Marker: L (42" T x 27" W). On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): Not certain if there was a replacement. Current Condition: Good, although the background could
be touched up. Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks:
Roll 3, #10 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Cook, relative of Robert Henry, speaking at the dedication of the Robert Henry Historical Marker. 1970. OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER ROBERT HENRY (MARCH 7, 1801
-OCTOBER 29, 1865) ONE OF VICTORS IN BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO. BORN IN IRELAND, CAME TO AMERICA, 1820, AND HERE TO ROBERTSON'S COLONY, 1832. A STAUNCH PRESBYTERIAN, KEPT TRUE TO FAITH AT
RISK OF LIFE. IN 1836 WAS FOR TEXAS INDEPENDENCE. HE SERVED IN 2ND REGT. INFANTRY, TEXAS VOLUNTEERS. PROMINENT IN PUBLIC LIFE. HE HELD JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT BENEATH SHADE TREES. HE
MARRIED ELIZABETH DOWNING LONDENDERRY. THEY HAD 13 CHILDREN. THEIR HEIRS INCLUDED NOTED TEXANS. (1970)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Robert Henry (March 7, 1801 -October 29, 1865) Location: Old Rye Field
Cemetery, off Old Spanish Road, 4.75 miles northwest of Brazos County Courthouse. Travel southwest on OSR, right on the Mumford Road, left on Rye Loop. First gate on right after the
intersection of Rye Loop and Allen. Walk through two gates to tree line. Large cemetery on right and on the left is a smaller cemetery with a chain link: fence. Robert Henry's gravesite
in located in a comer. City: Near Mumford Category Code: PI (pioneers) Year: 1970 RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (16"T x 24"W). Grave marker + Medallion. REPL (The
year the "original" marker was replaced: N/A Current Condition: Fair Need for Repairs or Replacement: The background needs repainting. Impossible to get to until brush is cleared from
the area Additional Remarks: Roll 3, #13-18 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ORGANIZED NOV. 21, 1867, IN THE PRESBYTERY OF BRAZOS BY THE REV. J.H. HUTCHINSON, THIS APPARENTLY WAS THE SECOND DENOMINATIONAL
GROUP IN BRYAN. IN 1871, MEMBERS THEMSELVES BUILT THEIR FIRST SANCTUARY AT WASHINGTON AND 29TH STREETS. THIS EFFORT WAS PRAISED BY SYNOD AS "THE WAY TO BUILD A CHURCH." A NEW BRICK STRUCTURE
WAS ERECTED AT THE OLD SITE IN 1906. AT PRESENT SITE, FIRST SERVICES WERE HELD IN THE EDUCATIONAL WING, JUNE 1958. PRESENT SANCTUARY WAS COMPLETED IN 1966. IN ITS FIRST CENTURY, CONGREGATION
WAS SERVED BY SEVENTEEN MINISTERS. (1 970)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: First Presbyterian Church Location: Intersection of Carter Creek Parkway
and Gordon Street. City: Bryan Category Code: CH (Churches) Year: 1970 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S. (28" T x 18" W) Marker on post. REPL (The year the "original"
marker was replaced) NtA Current Condition: Fair. Need for Repairs or Replacement: Needs repainting. Additional Remarks: RollI, #10-11 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary
Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER SITE OF ODD FELLOWS UNIVERSITY AND ORPHANS HOME FOUNDED 1870 BY ODD FELLOWS LODGE. HOUSED IN A 2-STORY FRAME BUILDING. TAUGHT DRAWING, ENGLISH, FRENCH,
GERMAN, GREEK, LATIN, MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, GEOMETRY, TRIGONOMETRY, SCIENCE, SURVEYING, PENMANSHIP. HAD PRIMARY TO YOUNG ADULT STUDENTS, ATTRACTED HERE FROM AN 80-MILE AREA. RECORDS DO
NOT SHOW PLANNED ORPHANAGE EVER OPERATED. FUNDS CAME CHIEFLY FROM TUITION FEES. DURING 5-YEAR CAREER, SCHOOL TAUGHT FUTURE TEXAS LEADERS. THE BUILDING WAS SOLD (1875) TO W.W. AND B.L.
JAMES AND MRS. V.D. EATON FOR BRYAN ACADEMY. IT HOUSED ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH 1876 TO 1903. (1972)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Site of Odd Fellows University and Orphans Home Location: 26th and Preston
Streets. City: Bryan Category Code: ED (Educational topics) Year: 1972 RTHL/Medaliion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (28" T x 18" W). On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker
was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good. Need for Repairs or Replacement: Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #17 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16,
1993
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER SITE OF FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL IN BRYAN AT THE POLLS ON OCT. 29, 1877, THE CITY OF BRYAN VOTED TO ESTABLISH A FREE PUBLIC GRADED SCHOOL -A VERY PROGRESSIVE
STEP I N AN ERA OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS. INTERESTED CITIZENS IMMEDIATELY BOUGHT AND DONATED THIS BLOCK FOR THE SITE. FINANCIAL HELP CAME FROM THE GEORGE PEABODY FOUNDATION, A PHILANTHROPIC
AGENCY DEVOTED TO EDUCATION IN THE POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH. CORNERSTONE WAS LAID IN 1879. THE FIRST SESSION OPENED IN THE FALL OF 1880 WITH NOTED EAST TEXAS EDUCATOR PERCY V. PENNYBACKER
(1860-99) AS PRINCIPAL. THERE WERE FIVE OTHER TEACHERS AND SEVEN GRADES. TOP FLOOR OF THE THREE-STORY BRICK BUILDING WAS THE AUDITORIUM, USED FOR A CHAPEL, CALISTHENICS, AND OTHER PROGRAMS.
DORMER WINDOWS WERE SET INTO THE ROOF. CLASSROOMS WERE ON FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS; HEATING WAS BY WOOD-BURNING STOVES THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING. THE SCHOOLYARD HAD A BOYS' AND A GIRLS'
SIDE. ON EACH SIDE THERE WAS AN ARBOR WITH BENCHES AND TABLES WERE PUPILS ATE LUNCHES BROUGHT FROM HOME. A CISTERN WITH TIN CUPS CHAINED TO ITS RIM PROVIDED WATER. OUTMODED BY 1919,
THE OLD "GRADED" (OR "EAST SIDE") SCHOOL BECAME AN AD-JUNCT TO A NEW STRUCTURE BUILT THAT YEAR, AND HOUSED GYMNASIUM, CAFETERIA, AND SHOP DEPARTMENT. IT WAS RAZED IN 1949. (1973)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: First Public School in Bryan Location: 1200 Baker Street City: Bryan Category
Code: ED (Educational topics) Year: 1973 RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"T x 27"W). On post REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition:
Poor Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs repainting. Post needs repainting. Additional Remarks: This marker was moved from the E. 30th Street side of the school property
to the front of the school, which faces Baker Street, the new building was completed in 1990. RollI, #13 & Roll 2, #9 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date:
July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER ALEXANDER CEMETERY THERE WAS A SCHOOLHOUSE NEAR THIS SITE IN 1854 WHEN, ACCORDING TO TRADITION, THE FIRST INTERMENT WAS MADE HERE. THAT EARLY GRAVE,
FOR A CHILD BY THE NAME OF WHITLEY, HAD NO MARKER AND HAS BEEN LOST. THIS LAND WAS PART OF A ONE-LEAGUE HEADRIGHT GRANT MADE ON OCT. 15, 1832, BY MEXICO TO GEORGE W. SINGLETON, WHO HAD
COME TO TEXAS WITH THE "OLD THREE HUNDRED" SETTLERS OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN. TWO OF SINGLETON'S HEIRS, LIVING IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, ON OCT. 2, 1856, DEEDED 10 ACRES FROM THE GRANT FOR THE
USE AND BENEFIT OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH. THE ALEXANDER CHURCH BUILDING WAS THEN ERECTED NEAR THE SCHOOL, AND BURIALS WERE CONTINUED IN THE AREA. THE EARLIEST IDENTIFIABLE
GRAVE IS THAT OF ONE OF THE ORIGINAL TRUSTEES OF THE PROPERTY, JAMES WALKER (1817-74). WILLIAM LAWRENCE, ANOTHER OF THE FIRST TRUSTEES, WAS ALSO BURIED HERE, IN 1879. THE ALEXANDER CEMETERY
ASSOCIATION WAS FORMED IN 1941, WITH A.J. MC CALLUM AS PRESIDENT AND L. T. WILSON, SECRETARY-TREASURER. JOE B. WALKER, WILSON'S SUCCESSOR, HAS SERVED THE ASSOCIATION FOR TWENTYSEVEN
YEARS. THE ASSOCIATION INSTALLED THE CHAIN LINK FENCE AND WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM. THERE ARE ABOUT 300 MARKED GRAVES, AND THE CEMETERY IS STILL OPEN TO BURIALS. (1974)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Alexander Cemetery at Alexander United Methodist Church. Location: Alexander
Cemetery Road, Alexander Community. Travel north on East Bypass; take the I Tabor Road (PM #974) exit. Follow until you reach Alexander Road, turn left on Alexander Roaa.. then turn
left on Alexander Cemetery Road. City: Bryan Category Code: GY (Graveyards and Cemeteries) Year: 1974 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"Tx 27"W). On post. REPL
(The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Poor Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs painting. Text needs resilvering and post needs repainting.
Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #23 & Roll 3, #0 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER BLACK EDUCATION IN BRYAN ON MARCH 30, 1885, THE CITY OF BRYAN PURCHASED SEVEN LOTS IN THIS AREA AS A SITE FOR A PUBLIC SCHOOL TO PROVIDE SEPARATE BUT
EQUAL AND IMPARTIAL INSTRUCTION FOR BLACK CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNITY, AS PRESCRIBED BY THE TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION OF 1876. THE "BRYAN PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR COLORED" WAS THE FIRST EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTION ESTABLISHED FOR BLACKS IN BRAZOS COUNTY. WHEN SCHOOL OPENED IN THE FALL OF 1885, ITS PRINCIPAL WAS A.H.COLWELL, WHO LATER BECAME A PROMINENT LEADER OF BLACK REPUBLICANS,
AND WAS NAMED AS A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR FROM TEXAS IN 1896. THE ORIGINAL FACULTY INCLUDED MRS. ANNE ALBERSON, MISSES MAMIE BURROWS AND BEATRICE CALHOUN, MRS. ADA SCOTT HALL, AND MRS.
LANORA GREEN, A CLASSMATE OF DR. WILLIAM E.B.DUBOIS. THE FIRST SCHOOL BUILDING ON THIS SITE WAS A TWO-STORY FRAME STRUCTURE, FURNISHED WITH PLANKS SUPPORTED BY KEGS FOR SEATING. AFTER
THE SCHOOL BURNED IN 1914, A BRICK EDIFICE WAS CONSTRUCTED. IN 1930, WHEN THE JUNIORSENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL WAS BUILT ACROSS TOWN, THIS FACILITY BECAME WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AFTER ITS DESTRUCTION BY FIRE IN SEPT. IN 1971, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY WAS NOT REBUILT AND THE BLACK STUDENTS WERE INTEGRATED INTO THE BRYAN PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. WASHINGTON PARK OCCUPIES
MOST OF THE ORIGINAL SITE. (1975)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Black Education in Bryan Location: E. 20th Street, between Houston & Preston
Streets. City: Bryan Category Code: BL (Black topics) Year: 1975 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"T x 27"W). On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was
replaced): N/A Current Condition: Poor Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs repainting. Text needs resilvering. Post needs repainting. Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #16 in
negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-14, 1991
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER FIRST METHODIST CHURCH OF BRYAN AMONG THE CIRCUIT RIDERS WHO PREACHED TO EARLY METHODISTS IN THIS AREA WERE THE REV. ROBERT ALEXANDER, PRESIDING ELDER
OF THE DISTRICT AND THE REV. H.V. PHILPOTT, WHO CONDUCTED SERVICES IN A HALL ABOVE A SALOON.THE REV. H.G.HORTON ORGANIZED THE CONGREGATION IN 1868 AND SOON RAISED $500 TO BUILD A CHURCH
ON THIS SITE, DEEDED BY THE HOUSTON & TEXAS CENTRAL RAILROAD. A BRICK CHURCH ERECTED IN 1902 BURNED IN 1906 AND WAS REBUILT IN 1908. DURING THE 1920s, AN ADJACENT RESIDENCE WAS BOUGHT
AND REMODELED FOR CLASSROOMS AND THE FELLOWSHIP HALL. A NEW SANCTUARY W AS COMPLETED IN 1951. (1976)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: First Methodist Church of Bryan (Fonnerly known as Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, located at 506 E. 28th Street. Now known as First United Methodist Church) Location: Comer of 27th & Houston. City: Bryan Category Code: CH (Churches) Year: 1976 RTHL/Medallion
Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (28"T x 18"W) REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Poor Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs
painting. Additional Remarks: Ro111,#23 & R2, #11 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY THE STATE LEGISLATURE AUTHORIZED THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS, APRIL 17, 1871. UNDER TERMS OF THE FEDERAL MORRILL
ACT, CONSTITUTIONALLY A PART OF A CHARTERED YET UNORGANIZED STATE UNIVERSITY. A&M GAINED ITS OWN DIRECTORATE IN 1875 WITH GOVERNOR RICHARD COKE AS A BOARD PRESIDENT. BRAZOS COUNTIANS
PROVIDED ITS 2,416ACRE SITE. COMMITTED TO "TEACH...BRANCHES OF LEARNING... RELATED TO AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC EDUCATION." A&M OPENED OCT. 4, 1876, AS THE FIRST STATE INSTITUTION OF
HIGHER LEARNING ACTUALLY OPERATING IN TEXAS. THOMAS S. GATHRIGHT WAS PRESIDENT. ITS ORIGINAL SIX STUDENTS IN SEVEN ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS GREW TO 28,038 STUDENTS IN ELEVEN ACADEMIC COLLEGES
BY 1976. INITIALLY, AN ALL-MALE, ALL WHITE SCHOOL, IT WAS DESEGREGATED AS TO COLOR IN 1963 AND MADE FULLY COEDUCATIONAL IN 1971. THE LEGISLATURE RECOGNIZED ITS DIVERSIFIED PROGRAM AND
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BY AWARDING THE NEW NAME TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY, ON AUG. 23, 1963. ON SEPT. 17, 1971, TH E U.S. CONGRESS MADE THIS ONE OF
AMERICA'S FIRST FOUR SEA GRANT COLLEGES. NATIONAL DEFENSE HAS DRAWN FROM TEXAS A&M THOUSANDS OF ROTC MEN, INCLUDING 29 GENERAL OFFICERS FOR WORLD WAR II. (1979)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Texas A&M University Location: A&M Campus, SH 6 Business off Texas Ave.
(East gate entrance to campus. On right side as you turn off of Texas Avenue.) City: College Station Category Code: ED (Educational Topics) Year: 1978 (State records) Marker shows 1979
RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42" T x 27" W) Subject marker set on granite foundation. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced) N/A Current Condition:
Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No. Additional Remarks: No site markers along highway to indicate "historical marker." Roll 1, #4 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary
Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
J OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER ALLEN ACADEMY THIS SCHOOL ORIGINATED AS MADISON ACADEMY, FOUNDED IN 1886 IN MADISONVILLE BY JOHN HODGES ALLEN (1854.1920), AN EDUCATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI.
WHEN HIS BROTHER RIVERS O. ALLEN (1865·1925) JOINED HIM IN 1896, THE INSTITUTION BECAME ALLEN ACADEMY, A PRIVATE BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS. DURING THE SUMMER OF 1899, THE ALLENS MOVED
THE SCHOOL TO BRYAN. IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, ENROLLMENT SUDDENLY INCREASED. THE CAMPUS WAS ENLARGED AND NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED TO ACCOMMODATE THE STUDENTS. DURING WORl_D
WAR I, MILITARY TRAINING WAS INTRODUCED. IN 1925 JOHN ALLEN'S SON NAT BURTIS ALLEN (1892·1946) BECAME DIRECTOR AT THE SCHOOL. DURING HIS TENURE, THE ACADEMY CONTINUED TO GROW AND GAINED
NATIONAL RECOGNITION. WHEN HE DIED IN 1946, THE CAMPUS CONTAINED OVER 300 ACRES, INCLUDING A FARM AND DAIRY. HIS SON NAT BURTIS ALLEN, JR. (1919·1973) GUIDED THE INSTITUTION UNTIL 1973
AND LED IN ESTABLISHING BROADER CURRICULUM. ALLEN ACADEMY IS THE OLDEST ACCREDITED, NON·SECTARIAN PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR BOYS OPERATING IN TEXAS. ITS GRADUATES INCLUDE LEADERS IN GOVERNMENT
AND BUSINESS. TODAY THE INSTITUTION IS COEDUCATIONAL AND OFFERS A BROAD RANGE OF SCHOLASTIC PROGRAMS FOR BOARDING AND DAY STUDENTS. (1978)
OFFICIAL STATE m STORICAL MARKER ALLEN ACADEMY TI-llS SCHOOL ORIGINATED AS MADISON ACADEMY, FOUNDED IN 1886 IN MADISONVILLE BY JOHN HODGES ALLEN (1854-1920), AN EDUCATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Wl-lEN HIS BROTHER RIVERS O. ALLEN (1865-1925) JOINED HIM IN 1896, THE INSTITUTION BECAME ALLEN ACADEMY, A PRIVATE BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS. DURING THE SUMMER OF 1899, THE ALLENS MOVED
THE SCHOOL TO BRYAN TO THE CORNER OF 22ND AND URSULINE AVE. IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. ENROLLMENT STEADILY INCREASED. THE CAMPUS WAS ENLARGED AND NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED TO
ACCOMMODATE THE STUDENTS. DURING WORLD WAR I, MILITARY TRAINING WAS INTRODUCED. IN 1925 JOHN ALLEN'S SON NAT BURTIS ALLEN (1892-1946) BECAME DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL. DURING IDS TENURE,
THE ACADEMY CONTINUED TO GROW AND GAIN NATIONAL RECOGNITION. WHEN HE OlEO IN 1946, THE CAMPUS CONTAINED OVER 300 ACRES, INCLUDING A FARM AND DAIRY. illS SON NAT BURTIS ALLEN, JR. (1919-1973)
GUIDED THE INSTITUTION UNTIL 1973 AND LED IN ESTABLISHING A BROADER CURRICULUM. ALLEN ACADEMY . RELOCATED HERE IN 1988. IS THE OLDEST ACCREDITED, NON-SECTARIAN PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR
BOYS OPERATING IN TEXAS. ITS GRADUATES INCLUDE LEADERS IN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS. TODAY THE INSTITUTION IS COEDUCATION AND OFFERS A BROAD RANGE OF SCHOLASTIC PROGRAMS FOR BOARDING AND
DAY STUDENTS. (1 997)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: The Allen Academy Location: (First Marker): 22nd Street at Ursuline Avenue,
now site of Women's Federal Prison. (Second Marker): A second marker, located at 3201 FM158, was dedicated May 21,1998. The text of this marker is an update of the text of the fIrst
one. City: Bryan Category Code: ED (Educational topics) Year: 1978, 1998, resp. RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"T x 27" W). On post. REPL (The year the "original"
marker was replaced): See notation above. Current Condition: Marker # 1 -Fair; Marker #2 -New. Need for Repairs or Replacement: Marker #1:Background needs repainting. Text needs resilvering.
Post needs repainting. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993; May 21, 1998, resp . •
(r~'UU:IIN tM-£ HA"Oi'fIU 1f~11tEt 0' M1110'le 'lACU "YA.hI "IHOtIC .UOIIQC~' ILlIViV U.S, OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER ASTIN-PORTER HOME BUlLT FOR ONAH (WARD) ASTIN (d.1944), THE
WIFE OF COTTON PLANTER JAMES H. ASTIN (d.1897). THIS HOUSE WAS DESIGNED BY THE WACO FIRM OF HOWARD MESSER AND W. WEMYSS SMITH. CONSTRUCTION BEGAN IN 1901 AND WAS COMPLETED TWO YEARS
LATER. THE EXTERIOR OF THE CLASSICAL REVIVAL RESIDENCE FEATURES A TWO-STORY GALLERY WITH CORINTHIAN COLUMNS. HOLLAND PORTER, A PLANTER, PURCHASED THE HOME IN 1946, AND ADDITIONS WERE
MADE TO THE STRUCTURE DURING HIS OWNERSHIP. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORICAL LANDMARK -1980.
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Astin-Porter Home Location: 600 E. 29th Street City: Bryan Category Code:
LL Homes (Local landmarks) Year: 1980 RTHL/Medallion Number: R1883 Size & Type of Marker: S (12"T x 16"W) + Medallion (13" diameter). Building marker. Smaller plaque: "Entered in the
National Register of Historic Places. Bryan Historic Resources Survey, 1987." REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced) N/A Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement:
No Additional Remarks: RollI, #21-22; Roll 4, #5A in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER E.J. JENKINS HOUSE THIS HOUSE WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1893 BY PROMINENT BRYAN BUILDER CHARLIE JENKINS FOR HIS BROTHER EDWIN JAMES JENKINS (1867-1959). A NATIVE
OF ENGLAND, E.J.JENKINS CAME TO BRYAN IN 1878. HE OPERATED A DRUGSTORE IN DOWNTOWN BRYAN FOR OVER 50 YEARS AND SERVED AS MAYOR AND A CITY COUNCILMAN. THE CLASSIC QUEEN ANNE STYLE HOME,
WHICH FEATURES A DOMED TOWER AND WRAPAROUND VERANDA, REMAINED IN THE JENKINS FAMILY UNTIL THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD IN 1971. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK -1982
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: E.J. Jenkins House Location: 607 E. 27th Street City: Bryan Category Code:
LL (Homes [locallandmarksD Year: 1982 RTHL/Medaliion Number: R2100 Size & Type of Marker: S (12"T x 164"W) + Medallion (13" diameter). Building marker. REPL (The year the "original"
marker was replaced): NIA Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #10; Roll 4, #13A in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary
Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
ENrEllEOIN TltbH"TtO.~I£G!ln.l' 01' HlltOl!IC 'lA-en ilrYoUI HI:rIOfIC lUOUIiCU ~1'.'1 OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER WALDROP HOUSE DESIGNED BY HOUSTON ARCHITECTS JONES & TABOR, THIS
HOME WAS BUILT FOR ALLISTER (1877-1936) AND NANNIE WALDROP IN THE EARLY 1900s. WALDROP, A PROMINENT AREA RETAIL MERCHANT, ALSO SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE BRYAN SCHOOL BOARD. THE WALDROP
HOUSE, BUILT IN THE AMERICAN FOUR-SQUARE STYLE, REFLECTS THE ARCHITECTURE TREND OF THE TIMES TOWARD SIMPLICITY OF DESIGN. INTERESTING FEATURES INCLUDE THE PALLADIAN DORMER WINDOWS AND
THE USE OF WOOD SHINGLES ON THE SECOND STORY. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORICAL LANDMARK -1983
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Waldrop House. Location: 615 E. 29th Street City: Bryan Category Code:
LL -(Homes -local landmarks) Year: 1983 RTHL/Medallion Number: .T (True);/None Size & Type of Marker: S (12"T x 16"W) + Medallion (13" diameter). Building marker. Smaller plaque: "Entered
in the National Register of Historic Places. Bryan Historic Resources Survey, 1987." REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced) N/A Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or
Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Roll 1, #16-17; Roll 4, #IA in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
INltUt> "l l"IfO';.... I<; ...AlIfGo1·Et ::'" '''''11. C ....w:o IIYA" " UG.,c.: Mlv.~.... rl 'JIVI' '11' OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL LANDMARK WILKERSON HOUSE BUILT IN 1912 BY NOTED BRYAN
ARCHITECT AND CONTRACTOR CHARLIE JENKINS. THIS HOME IS LOCATED IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE MANY OF THE TOWN'S BUSINESS LEADERS LIVED DURING THE 1910s, AND 1920s. OWNED BY BANKER A.W. WILKERSON
UNTIL 1919. IT THEN WAS ACQUIRED BY PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN JOHN PARKER. THE HOME, A VARIATION ON THE AMERICAN FOUR-SQUARE STYLE, FEATURES A HIPPED ROOF, EAVE BRACKETS, AND A WRAPAROUND
PORCH. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORICAL LANDMARK -1983.
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Wilkerson House Location: 614 E. 29th Street. City: Bryan Category Code:
LL -Homes (local landmarks) Year: 1983 RTHL/Medaliion Number: ..T (True); /None Size & Type of Marker: S (121fT x 16lfW) + Medallion (13" diameter); Building marker. Smaller plaque:
"Entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Bryan Historic Resources SUIvey, 1987." REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good Need for
Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: RollI, #19; Roll 4, #3A in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER WESA WEDDINGTON (NOV.20, 1880-MAR.29, 1966) GRANDDAUGHTER OF HARVEY MITCHELL, A PIONEER SETTLER OF BRAZOS COUNTY, WESA WEDDINGTON BEGAN TEACHING LATIN
AND SPANISH IN 1903 IN BRYAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SHE RECEIVED A MASTERS DEGREE IN 1918 FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND THEN TAUGHT WHILE SERVING AS PRINCIPAL OF BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL FROM 1920
TO 1946. A DEDICATED TEACHER WHO SET HIGH STANDARDS, SHE EARNED LOVE AND RESPECT FROM STUDENTS, MANY OF WHOM BECAME LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY. RECORDED IN 1983
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Wesa Weddington Location: Gravesite, Boonville Cemetery. PM #158, east
of SH #6. City: Bryan Category Code: ED (Educational topics) Year: 1983 RTHLIMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (12"T x 16"W)+ Medallion (6314 diameter). Gravesite. II REPL
(The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Fair Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs painting and text needs resilvering. Additional Remarks:
Roll 2, #21 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER RICHARD CARTER HOMESITE IN 1831, RICHARD CARTER (1789-1863), VIRGINIA NATIVE AND WAR OF 1812 VETERAN, CAME FROM ALABAMA AND RECEIVED A GRANT OF LAND
WITHIN THE STEPHEN F. AUSTIN COLONY AT THE SITE OF WHAT IS NOW THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION. HE BECAME ONE OF THE AREA'S WEALTHIEST LAND AND SLAVE OWNERS, RAISING CATTLE, CORN, AND COTTON
DURING THE YEARS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. CARTER WAS APPOINTED TO THE FIRST BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AFTER BRAZOS COUNTY WAS CREATED IN 1841 AND HELPED SURVEY BOONVILLE, ITS FIRST COUNTY
SEAT. EVIDENCE OF THE CARTER HOME AND THE FAMILY CEMETERY HAS BEEN FOUND IN THIS AREA. (1984)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Richard Carter Homesite Location: Richard Carter Park, Brazoswood Drive.
(East on Hwy 30, left on frontage road of East Bypass, left on Brazoswood Drive.) City: College Station Category Code: LL Year: 1984 RTHL/Medallion Number: .F (False);/None Size & Type
of Marker: S ( 28"T x 18"W); Subject marker. On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks:
No site markers on highway to indicate "historical marker." Roll 1, #5-6 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
IHTtRf D IN THE NATIO'NAl QtG lm" 0' HIITOIrIC 'lACf \ IIVAN HISfOlillC IlESOt.ll/C~s SUi'Y t~" OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER McMICHAEL-WILSON HOUSE CONSTRUCTED IN 1904 FOR LUMBER-MAN
AND BRAZOS COUNTY CLERK, GEORGE WASHINGTON McMICHAEL (1854-1904). THIS QUEEN ANNE STYLE HOME WAS PURCHASED IN 1912 BY PROMINENT PLANTER ALFRED FLOURNOY WILSON. IT REMAINED IN THE WILSON
FAMILY FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS. OUTSTANDING FEATURES OF THE BRYAN LANDMARK ARE ITS CORNER TURRET, WRAPAROUND PORCH, PEDIMENTED ENTRANCE, AND CORNER PAVILION WITH CONICAL ROOF. RECORDED TEXAS
HISTORICAL LANDMARK-1985
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: McMichael -Wilson House Location: 712 E. 30th Street City: Bryan Category
Code: LL (Homes [locallandmarksD Year: 1985 RTHL/Medallion Number: .T (True);1R2290 Size & Type of Marker: S (12"T x 16"W) + Medallion (13" diameter). Building marker. Smaller plaque:
"Entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Bryan Historic Resources Survey, 1987." REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced) NIA Current Condition: Good Need for
Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: RollI, #20 & Roll 2, #8; Roll 4, 9A in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
~1i1£~[\ ,.., '"'£ '-I"'ONAJ. ~IG.IS {~ Of i'i,SIOIUC PlAClS ftllY"N HISIORIC ~SOOKfS SU~"'H 19SJ OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER EUGENE EDGE HOME THIS QUEEN ANNE STYLE RESIDENCE FEATURES
A TWO·STORY WRAPAROUND PORCH WITH A DECORATIVE BALUSTRADE. THE FRONT PORCH, WITH ITS DORIC COLUMNS AND TRIANGULAR PEDIMENT OVER THE ENTRYWAY, EXHIBITS ELEMENTS OF THE COLONIAL REVIVAL
STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE.THE HOME WAS CON· STRUCTED IN 1901·02 BY LOCALLY PROMINENT BUILDER CHARLES JENKINS. IT SERVED AS THE RESIDENCE OF EUGENE EDGE, AN EARLY BRYAN BUSINESSMAN, UNTIL
1918. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORICAL LANDMARK . 1985
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Eugene Edge Home Location: 508 E. 30th Street. Comer of Hill and 30th Streets.
City: Bryan Category Code: LL (Homes [Local landmarks ]) Year: 1985 RTHL/Medallion Number: T (True );/R2312 Size & Type of Marker: S (12"T x 16"W) + Medallion (13" diameter). Building
marker. Smaller plaque: "Entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Bryan Historic Resources SUlvey, 1987." REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced) NtA Current Condition:
Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Addtional Remarks: Roll 1, #12 & Roll 2, #6; Roll 4, #8A in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER MORA VIAN (CZECH) CEMETERY LAND FOR THIS CEMETERY WAS SOLD IN 1889 BY JOSEF STASTA (1833-1894)TO JOSEPH MEKESKA, PRESIDENT OF MORAVIAN BROTHERS BURIAL
GROUND. THE DEED SPEC(FIED THE LAND WOULD BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR A MORAVIAN CEMETERY.THE CEMETERY CONTAINS ELEVEN GRAVE MARKERS. ALL BUT ONE OF THE STONES ARE INSCRIBED IN CZECH. THE
ONE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE STONE MARKS FOUR GRAVES. THE EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL IS THAT OF MARIE SIPTAK (JAN. 19 FEB. 16,1885). THE LAST INTERMENT TOOK PLACE IN 1906. THOUGH ONLY FIFTEEN GRAVES
ARE MARKED, THE CEMETERY MAY CONTAIN AS MANY AS FORTY-ONE BURIALS. TEXAS SESQUICENTENNIAL 1836-1986
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Moravian (Czech) Cemetery Location: 0.25 miles northwest of Knightsbridge
and Warwick Streets intersection in Copperfield Addition. Located in field at the end of alley between 5913 and 5909 Knightsbridge. Gate access is locked and area posted. City: Bryan
Category Code: GY (Graveyards & Cemeteries). Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986 Year: 1986 RTHL/Medallion Number: .F. (False);/None Size & Type of Marker: S (36"T x 21 "W). On post. REPL
(The year the "original"
marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: None Additional Remarks: RollI, #7 & Roll 2, #5 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary
Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER EARLY TEXAS A&M CAMPUS HOUSING WHEN TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY OPENED IN 1876. IT WAS FOUR MILES FROM BRYAN, THE NEAREST TOWN, AND THE NEED FOR CAMPUS HOUSING
FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AROSE. THE FIRST OF THE CAMPUS HOUSES, FIVE BRICK HOMES ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF THROCKMORTON STREET, WERE BUILT IN 1876. BY 1938, THERE WERE MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED
HOMES ON CAMPUS. THE TYPES OF HOUSES VARIED, RANGING FROM LARGE QUEEN ANNE STYLE HOMES TO SMALL BUNGALOWS AND COTTAGES. THE HOMES WERE LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE CAMPUS. WHEN THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION WAS INCORPORATED IN 1938, HOUSING IN TOWN BECAME A V AILABLE, AND THE DECISION WAS MADE TO REMOVE THE FACULTY HOUSING. MANY RESIDENTS EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO BUY THESE
HOMES, AND THE COLLEGE BEGAN ACCEPTING BIDS IN 19 . ONE-THIRD OF THE HOUSES WERE SOON SOLD, WITH PRICES RANGING FROM $200 -$800. ANOTHER THIRD WERE SOLD AND MOVED OVER THE NEXT TWENTY
YEARS. THE REST OF THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURES WERE BURNED OR RAZED. NONE REMAIN ON CAMPUS. FORTY-ONE OF THE ORIGINAL HOMES HAVE BEEN LOCATED. THIRTY-EIGHT ARE IN COLLEGE STATION, TWO ARE
IN BRYAN, AND ONE IS ABOUT TWO MILES NORTH OF BRYAN. TEXAS SESQUICENTENNIAL 1836 -1986
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Early Texas A&M Campus Housing Location: Throckmorton Street. Texas A&M
University. Across from the Corps Center, in a small park. City: College Station Category Code: LL (Homes {Local landmarks}; ED (Educational topics). (Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986)
Year: 1986 RTHL/Medallion Number: .F (False);/None Size & Type of Marker: L (36"T x 21 "W); On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced) Current Condition: Good except
for some heavy scratches on side of text. Need for Repairs or Replacement: Background needs repainting. Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #4 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary
Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER THE WOMAN'S CLUB FOUNDED IN OCTOBER 1895 AS THE MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT CIRCLE. THIS ORGANIZATION BEGAN WITH TWENTY MEMBERS, INITIALLY GATHERING IN INDIVIDUAL'S
HOMES. THE CLUB MET AS A STUDY GROUP TO IMPROVE MEMBERS' MINDS, SERVE THE COMMUNITY, AND PROMOTE THE CAUSE OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS. ITS PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST YEAR WAS A STUDY OF GREECE. AMONG
THE CLUB'S EARLY CIVIC PROJECTS WERE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CITY'S CARNEGIE LIBRARY IN 1903, DOWNTOWN BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS AND LANDSCAPING OF THE COURTHOUSE GROUNDS. CLUB MEMBERS
PLANTED A ROW OF LIVE OAK TREES ALONG THE COLLEGE AVENUE APPROACH TO THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. IN 1909 THE NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION WAS CHANGED TO THE WOMAN'S CLUB. MEETINGS WERE
HELD IN THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY BUILDING UNTIL 1929 WHEN THE FIRST CLUBHOUSE WAS BUILT. DUE TO INCREASES IN MEMBERSHIP, THE CLUB MET IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS BEFORE THE PRESENT
FACILITY WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1972. THE WHITE ROSE SERVES AS THE ORGANIZATION'S SYMBOL AND APPEARS ON CLUB PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS. THE WOMAN'S CLUB CONTINUES TO BE ACTIVE IN THE CIVIC
AFFAIRS OF BRYAN AND COLLEGE STATION. (1989)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: The Woman's Club of Bryan Location: 1200 Carter Creek Parkway City: Bryan
Category Code: FO, WN Year: 1989 RTHL/Medallion Number: .F (False);/None Size & Type of Marker: L, (42" T x 27"W.) Subject Marker; however marker is mounted on building. REPL (The year
the "original" marker was replaced) N/A Current Condition: Good. Photograph not taken in the best of light. Need for Repairs or Replacement: None Additional Remarks: Roll 1, #8 in negative
file Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER A&M COLLEGE CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOL THE STATE OF TEXAS GRANTED A CHARTER FOR AN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ENCOMPASS THE TEXAS A&M COLLEGE CAMPUS
IN 1909. BECAUSE THERE WAS NOT A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT TO SUPPORT A SCHOOL, A&M PRESIDENT WILLIAM BIZZELL AND PROFESSOR MARTIN HAYES, HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
VOCATIONAL TEACHING, PERSUADED THE LEADERS OF THREE SURROUNDING COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO SEND THEIR STUDENTS TO A NEW SCHOOL TO BE LOCATED ON THE COLLEGE CAMPUS. THE NEW SCHOOL OPENED
IN 1920 WITH 304 STUDENTS. IT WAS SUPPORTED BY A&M COLLEGE WITH FUNDING FOR BUILDINGS, TEACHER SALARIES, FURNITURE, AND EQUIPMENT. IT BECAME A MODEL FOR RURAL SCHOOLS IN THE AREA, AND
BY 1928 THE SURROUNDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS OFFICIALLY DISSOLVED AND MERGED WITH A&M COLLEGE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. BY 1938 THE SCHOOL FACILITIES HAD BECOME OVER-CROWDED.
BECAUSE THE COLLEGE WAS NOT ABLE TO IN-CREASE ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INSTITUTION, THE SCHOOL MOVED OFF OF THE A&M CAMPUS IN 1940. WITH THE MOVE CAME THE GENESIS OF THE COLLEGE STATION
INDEPENDEND SCHOOL DISTRICT. (1990)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: A&M College Consolidated Rural School Location: 2118 Welsh Street City:
College Station Category: ED (Educational Topics) Year: 1990 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"T x 27"W); Marker on post. REPL (The year the "original" marker
was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #2 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July
3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER EDGE HOUSE COMPLETED IN 1925 FOR THE FAMILY OF PROMINENT BRYAN MERCHANT EUGENE EDGE (1879-1954) AND HIS WIFE CORA ZULCH (d.1939), THIS TWO-AND-ONE-HALF
STORY BRICK HOUSE REFLECTS THE GEORGIAN REVIVAL STYLE. DEFINING FEATURES INCLUDE ITS SYMMETRICAL COMPOSITION, ENTRY PORTICO WITH DORIC COLUMNS, STONE QUOINS, GABLED DORMERS, AND FANLIGHT
TRANSOM. AFTER THE DEATHS OF MR. AND MRS. EDGE, THE HOUSE REMAINED IN THE EDGE FAMILY UNTIL 1978. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK -1991
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Market Title: Edge House (Eugene Edge House) Location: 609 S. Ennis (2 blocks northeast
of Carter Creek Parkway) City: Bryan Category Code: LL (Homes -local landmarks) Year: 1991 RTHLlMedallion Number: .T (True);/R2312 Size and Type of Marker: S (12"T x 16" W) + Medallion
(13" diameter) Building marker on post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Rolli,
#9; Roll 4, #IIA in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER SHILOH COMMUNITY SETTLED IN THE 1860's BY CZECH, GERMAN, AND POLISH IMMIGRANTS, THE SHILOH COMMUNITY WAS AN AREA OF LARGE FAMILY FARMS. IN ADDITION TO
HOMES AND FARMS, THE SETTLEMENT ATONE TIME BOASTED A COMMUNITY CENTER, A TWO-ROOM SCHOOL, A VINEYARD, A MILL, AND A BLACKSMITH SHOP. THE FAMILIES OF SHILOH COMMUNITY MAINTAINED A COOPERATIVE
RELATIONSHIP, OFTEN HELPING EACH OTHER WITH PLANTING, HARVESTING, BARN BUILDING, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. IN 1883, TO COORDINATE ASSISTANCE EFFORTS AND GROUP PURCHASES OF FARM SUPPLIES,
THEY FORMED THE SLAVONIC AGRICULTURAL AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, WHICH STILL EXISTS IN REORGANIZED FORM AS THE SHILOH CLUB. THE COMMUNITY LATER WAS COMPLETELY ENCOMPASSED BY THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION. MRS. WILLIAM G. RECTOR DEEDED LAND AT THIS SITE TO THE LOCAL METHODIST CHURCH IN 1870 FOR USE AS A COMMUNITY CEMETERY. THE PROPERTY LATER WAS ACQUIRED BY THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION, WHICH ESTABLISHED A LARGER CITY CEMETERY AROUND THE ORIGINAL SHILOH GRAVEYARD. ALTHOUGH LITTLE REMAINS OF THE SHILOH COMMUNITY, THIS CEMETERY SERVES AS A REMINDER OF
A ONCE-THRIVING SETTLEMENT. (1991)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Shiloh Community Location: 2604 Texas Avenue, College Station Cemetery
City: College Station Category Code: CY (Cities and Towns) Year: 1991 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42" T x 27" W); On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker
was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Roll 1, #3 & Roll 2, # 3 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin
Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER ROCK PRAIRIE SCHOOL AND CHURCH GERMAN IMMIGRANT ADAM ROYDER (d. 1894) DONATED ONE ACRE OF LAND HERE FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES IN 1891. A ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE
WAS CONSTRUCTED WHERE AREA STUDENTS RECEIVED INSTRUCTION THROUGH THE SEVENTH GRADE. THE ROCK PRAIRIE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH WAS ORGANIZED IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE IN 1900, AND CHURCH SERVICES
WERE SUBSEQUENTLY HELD THERE, AS WELL. THE ROCK PRAIRIE SCHOOL WAS DISCONTINUED IN 1919 AFTER IT WAS CONSOLIDATED WITH THE NEARBY SHILOH SCHOOL, BUT THE SCHOOLHOUSE CONTINUED TO SERVE
AREA BAPTISTS AS A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. (1992)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Rock Prairie School & Church Location: 105 Rock Prairie Road City: College
Station Category Code: ED (Educational topics), CH (Churches) Year: 1992 RTHL/Medaliion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (281fT x 18lfW) On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker
was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Good Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #0 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July
3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER SAINT ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH THIS PARISH TRACES ITS ORIGIN TO EPISCOPAL SERVICES HELD IN NEARBY MILLICAN IN 1864. A YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC IN THE MILLICAN
AREA PROMPTED THE RELOCATION OF THE SAINT ANDREW'S MISSION TO BRYAN IN 1867. A PARISH WAS FORMED THAT YEAR AND LED BY THE REVEREND ROBERT JOPE. THE ORIGINAL CHURCH STRUCTURE, LOCATED
NEAR THIS SITE, WAS CONSECRATED BY BISHOP ALEXANDER GREGG IN 1868. THE REVEREND RANDOLPH RAY HELD THE FIRST SERVICE IN A NEW CHURCH BUILDING AT THIS LOCATION IN 1914. IN 1992, SAINT
ANDREW'S 125 YEARS OF SERVICE AND PARTICIPATION IN A VARIETY OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES. (1992 )
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL .TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Location: 26th and Parker Streets City:
Bryan Category Code: CH (Churches) Year: 1992 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (28" T x 18" W) REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition:
Excellent Need of Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Roll 2, #19 in negative file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER STEELE'S STORE COMMUNITY ANGLO SETTLEMENT IN THIS AREA CAN BE TRACED TO 1851. HENRY B. STEELE BUILT A GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE IN 1855 TO SER VE RESIDENTS
OF THE R URAL COMMUNITY, ORIGINALLY CALLED MUDVILLE BECAUSE OF FREQUENT BRAZOS RIVER FLOODS. THE STORE BECAME THE CENTER OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHEN A POST OFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED THERE
IN 1878 THE SETTLEMENT WAS RENAMED STEELE'S STORE. ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS, PRIMARILY FROM THE PROVINCES OF TRAPANI AND PALERMO, BEGAN SETTLING HERE IN THE 1870s. MANY OF THE FAMILIES ESTABLISHED
LARGE FARMS, AND BY THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY HERE WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE UNITED STATES. A ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE BUILTIN 1889 WAS LATER REPLACED WITH LARGER
STRUCTURES AS THE POPULATION GREW. THE SCHOOL EVENTUALLY WAS CONSOLIDATED WITH THE BRAZOS COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. PREDOMINATELY ROMAN CATHOLIC, THE SETTLEMENT WAS SERVED
BY PRIESTS FROM ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH IN BRYAN UNTIL 1903, WHEN SAN SALVADOR CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS BUILT. THE CHURCH BECAME THE FOCAL POINT OF THE COMMUNITY, WITH TRADITIONAL SICILIAN CELEBRATIONS
HELD EACH MARCH TO HONOR ST. JOSEPH. MANY DESCENDANTS OF THE AREA'S PIONEER ITALIAN FAMILIES STILL RESIDE IN THE VICINITY. (1992)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Steele's Store Community Location: 10 miles southwest of Bryan on FM #50,2.4
miles from intersection of SH #21 and PM #50. City: Outside of Bryan city limits. Category Code: CY (Cities & towns) Year: 1992 RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"
W x 27" T). On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: Excellent Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Roll 3, # 11 in negative
file. Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 3-16, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS mSTORICAL MARKER CHARLIE ERIC JENKINS (NOVEMBER 4, 1861-0CTOBER 26, 1943) ENGLISH NATIVE CHARLIE E. JENKINS CAME TO AMERICA IN 1873 AND TO BRYAN IN 1878. ONE OF BRYAN'S
MOST PROLIFIC AND TALENTED BUILDERS OF THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES,JENKINS' LEGACY OF DISTINCTIVE STRUCTURES HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED BY NATIONAL AND STATE ORGANIZATIONS FOR THEIR
HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. JENKINS IS KNOWN FOR HIS MASTERFUL USE OF NATURAL LIGHTING AND FOR EMPLOYING MANY DIFFERENT STYLES. IN ADDITION TO HIS ARCHITECTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS,
JENKINS ALSO WAS ACTIVE IN THE CITY'S CIVIC AFFAIRS, HAVING SERVED AS BOTH FIRE CHIEF AND CITY BUILDING INSPECTOR. (1993)
CHARLIE ERIC JENKINS 1861 -1943 Texas Historical Marker Dedication Sunday. October 31. 1993 Bryan City Cemetery Bryan. Texas 2:00 p.m.
CHARLIE ERIC JENKINS (November 4, 1861-0ctober 26, 1943) English Native Charlie E. Jenkins came to America in 1873 and to Bryan in 1878. One of Bryan's most prolific and talented builders
of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jenkins' legacy of distinctive structures has been recognized by national and state organizations for their historical and architectural significance.
Jenkins is known for his masterful use of natural lighting and for employing many different styles. In addition to his architectural contributions, Jenkins also was active in the city's
civic affairs, having served as both Fire Chief and City Building Inspector. (1993) This marker was sponsored by the Brazos County Historical Commission PROGRAM Welcome and Recognition
of Guests Comments about Charlie Jenkins Architectural Legacy of Charlie Jenkins Presentation of Marker Acceptance of Marker Charles Schultz Brazos County Historical Commission Jenkins
Family Member Nancy Volkman Bryan Historic Landmark Commission Colleen Batchelor Brazos County Historical Commission Jenkins Family Member Special thanks to Bob Holmes, Sexton ofthe
Bryan City Cemetery, for his gracious assistance with the installation of the marker.
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Charlie Eric Jenkins Location: Bryan City Cemetery, 1111 N. Texas Ave.
City: Bryan, Category Code: DC/OR Year: 1993 RTHL/Medallion Number: .F (False) Size & Type of Marker: S (28"T x 18"W); Subject marker on post. REPL: (The year the "original" marker was
replaced): N/A Current Condition: Excellent Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: No site markers on highway to indicate "historical marker" in cemetery. Roll 5, #21A.
Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: November 31, 1993
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER COLLEGE STATION RAILROAD DEPOTS IN 1871 TEXAS GOVERNOR EDMUND DAVIS APPOINTED THREE COMMISSIONERS TO SELECT A SITE FOR THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED AGRICULTURAL
AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS (TEXAS A&M COLLEGE). THE COMMISSIONERS CHOSE THIS LOCATION IN LARGE PART BECAUSE OF THE EXISTENCE OF A HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL (H&TC) RAILROAD LINE
WHICH BEGAN IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND EXTENDED THROUGH THIS AREA TO ITS TERMINUS IN BRYAN (5 MI. NORTH) ALTHOUGH NO RAILROAD DEPOT EXISTED HERE AT THE TIME OF TEXAS A&M'S FORMAL OPENING
IN 1876, H&TC MADE REGULAR STOPS HERE FOR INCOMING AND OUTGOING COLLEGE STUDENTS AND FACULTY. H&TC RAILROAD CONDUCTOR ANNOUNCEMENTS REFERRING TO THIS STOP AS COLLEGE STATION GAVE RISE
TO THE NAME OF THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY. H&TC CONSTRUCTED A DEPOT AT THIS SITE IN 1883 WHICH IT REPLACED WITH A NEW DEPOT ABOUT 1900. THE H&TC DEPOTS AND ANOTHER BUILT BY THE INTERNATIONAL
& GREAT NORTHERN (IGN) RAILROAD JUST EAST OF THIS SITE IN 1900 WERE FOR MANY STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED TEXAS A&M THE FIRST REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR COLLEGIATE EXPERIENCE. RAILROAD DEPOTS OWNED
BY H&TC (LATER SOUTHERN PACIFIC) AND IGN (LATER MISSOURI PACIFIC) MAINTAINED PASSENGER SERVICE AT THIS LOCATION UNTIL 1959. IN 1966 THE LAST OF THE DEPOT STRUCTURES WAS RAZED. (1994)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: College Station Railroad Depots Location: 200 feet northeast of the intersection
of Welborn Road (PM 2154) and Old Main Drive, on the Texas A&M University campus. College Station, Texas. City: College Station Category Code: RR Year: 1994 RTHL/Medallion Number: None
Size and Type of Marker: Large: 42" T x 27" W. Subject marker on post REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: New Need for Repairs or Replacement:
No Additional Remarks: Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: August 17, 1994
OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL THE REV. JOSEPH PELNAR OF BRYAN'S ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH ERECTED A PARISH SCHOOL BllILDING HERE IN THE EARLY 1890s. THE CHILDREN
OF EAST EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES DOMINATED STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT ST. JOSEPH'S UNTIL ABOUT THE 1930s.TEACHERS INCLUDED M. ELIZABETH CARR (1890s), NUNS OF THE URSULINE ORDER (1901-1930),
AND NUNS OF THE INCARNATE WORD (1930-1981). FACILITIES WERE CONSTRUCTED OR ACQllIRED AT VARIOUS TIMES TO MEET INCREASED ENROLLMENT WHICH REACHED ITS HIGHEST LEVEL IN 1957 WITH 498 STUDENTS.
THE SCHOOL CONTINUES TO OFFER LOCAL STUDENTS GENERAL AND CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL CLASSES. (1994)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: St. Joseph School Location: 109 North Preston City: Bryan, Texas 77803
Category Code: ED (Educational Topics) Year: 1994 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42" T x 27" W) Subject marker with post REPL (The year the "original" marker was
replaced) N/A Current Condition: New Need for Repairs or Replacement: No. Additional Remarks: Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: August 16, 1994
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER BRYAN & COLLEGE STATION INTERURBAN RAILWAY BRYAN MAYOR J.T. MALONEY AND THE CITY'S RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED THE BRYAN & COLLEGE INTERURBAN
RAILWAY COMPANY IN 1909. THE COMPANY WAS CREATED TO ESTABLISH AN INTERURBAN RAILWAY SERVICE BETWEEN BRYAN, A TOWN OF ABOUT 4,000 PEOPLE, AND THE TEXAS AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL COLLEGE
(TEXAS A&M), WITH A STUDENT AND FACULTY POPULATION OF ABOUT 750. DAILY SERVICE CONSISTlNG OF TEN 30-MINUTE TRIPS BEGAN IN 1910 WITH PASSENGER TROLLEYS AND GASOLINE POWERED RAIL CARS.
ALONG THE ROUTE LANDOWNERS BUILT RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISIONS AND SMALL FARMS, AND TO PROVIDE AN ATTRACTION THE CITY CREATED DELLWOOD PARK. FREIGHT SERVICE BEGAN IN 1918 TO HELP BOLSTER
AN OPERATION BESET WITH LABOR PROBLEMS AND THE LOSS OF PASSENGERS TO AUTOMOBILE RIDERSHIP. IN 1922 THE BRYAN & COLLEGE INTERURBAN RAILWAY WENT INTO RECEIVERSHIP AND IN 1923 ITS ASSETS
WERE SOLD AT AUCTION TO THE S.S. HUNTER ESTATE. THE LAST RECORDED TRIP OF THE lNTERURBAN TOOK PLACE PLACE ON APRIL 13, 1923. DURING ITS 15 YEARS OF OPERATION THE INTERURBAN RAILWAY GREATLY
INFLUENCED THE COURSE OF BRYAN'S AND COLLEGE STATION'S URBAN DEVELOPMENT. TODAY THE TWO CITIES MERGE INDISTINGUISHABLY AT A POINT ON THE FORMER BRYAN & COLLEGE INTERURBAN RAILWAY ROUTE.
SESQUICENTENNIAL OF TEAS STATEHOOD 1845-1995
BRAZOS COUNTY mSTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OFFICIAL TEXAS mSTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Bryan & College Station Interurban Railway Location: 400 Block, College Main
City: Bryan, Texas 77803 Category Code: RR (Railroad topics-includes railroad commissioners, streetcars, and interurbans) Year: 1995 RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker:
L (421fT x 27"W) Subject marker with post REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: New Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Survey
Conducted By: Cal and Rosemary Boykin Dater: January 16, 1996
OFFICIAL STATE HlSTORICAL MARKER CA VITT HOUSE ATTORNEY WILLIAM R. CAVITT (1849-1924) PURCHASED A CITY BLOCK HERE IN 187S. THE YEAR HE MARRIED MARY MITCHELL. CAVITT BECAME BRAZOS COUNTY
ATTORNEY IN 1878 AND ABOUT 1880 HE AND MARY BUILT A BRICK ITALIANATE RESIDENCE HERE. CAVITT LATER SERVED AS A STATE LEGISLATOR AND ON THE BOARD OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY. THE CAVTTTS MODIFIED
THE HOUSE IN THE 19205 TO REFLECT CONTEMPORARY COLONIAL REVIVAL INFLUENCES. THE HOUSE REMAINED IN THE CAVITT FAMILY UNTIL 1978. 1996 RECORDED TEXAS HISTORICAL LANDMARK -1995
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Cavitt House Location: 713 E. 30th Street City: Bryan, Texas 77803 Category
Code: LL (Homes -Landmarks) Year: 1996 RTHLIMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S(12"T x 16"W) + Medallion (13" diameter). Building. REPL: (The year the original marker was
replaced): N/A Current Condition: New Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 11, 1996
Some rna ' boast of the prowess bold or t he schools the'y think so grand; . But tbere is a spirit that ,can never be told. I~::'>I_""~ It s the SpIrit of AGGJELAND OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL
MARKER TEXAS A&M CORPS OF CADETS SOON AFTER ITS OPENING IN 1876, THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS (TEXAS A&M) ESTABLISHED THE CORPS OF CADETS TO FULFILL ITS MANDATE TO
INSTRUCT ITS STUDENTS (ALL MALE UNTIL THE EARLY 1960'S) IN MILITARY SCIENCE. A&M CONTRlBUTED MORE OFFICERS TO AMERICA'S WORLD WAR II EFFORT THAN ANY OTHER INSTITUTION, INCLUDING THE
U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY. MANY OF THE CORPS' TRADITIONAL ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS THE AGGIE BAND, FISH DRILL TEAM, AND ROSS VOLUNTEERS, HAVE GAINED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION, A&M'S
ELITE CORPS OF CADETS CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE UNIVERSITY'S UNIQUE PUBLIC IMAGE. 1996
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Texas A&M Corps of Cadets Location: Near Sanders Corps Center, Throckmorton
Street, Texas A&M University City: College Station, Texas 77843 Category Code: ML (Military topics) Year: 1996 RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: S (28"T x 18"W) Mounted
on granite REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: New Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary
Boykin Date: 11 July 1996
OFFICIAL STATE HISTORICAL MARKER WIXON CEMETERY THE RURAL FARMING COMMUNITY OF WIXON WAS SETTLED IN THE LATE 1860S BY .FORMER RESIDENTS OF SEVERAL WAR-TORN SOUTHERN STATES. THE WIXON
SCHOOL AND WIXON CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WERE ESTABUSHED IN THE 1870S ON LAND ADJACENT TH]S CEMETERY. THE EARLIEST RECORDED BURIAL HERE WAS THAT OF NANCY SUMMERS IN 1871. BOTH
THE CHURCH AND SCHOOL CLOSED IN THE 1930S AND IN 1968 THE SCHOOL PROPERTY WAS DEEDED TO THE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. BURlED HERE ARE MANY OF THE AREA 'S EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
AND AT LEAST 17 CONFEDEREATE CIVIL WAR VETERANS. 1996 SESQUICENTENNIAL OF TEXAS STATEHOOD 1845-1995
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: Wixon Cemetery Location: From Brazos Country Courthouse, proceed 1 mile
north on Hwy 6 Business Route (Texas Avenue) to intersection of Hwy 21 , right 5.9 miles to FM #2776. left .3 mile, cemetery on right. City: Bryan Category: GY Year: 1996 RTHL/Medallion
Number: None Size and Type of Marker: 28 "T x 18"W. Subject marker on post REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: New Need for Repairs or Replacement:
No Additional Remarks: Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary Boykin Date: July 11, 1996
OFFICIAL STATE mSTORICAL MARKER AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION IN COLLEGE STATION FORMAL EDUCATION FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN BRAZOS COUNTY BEGAN AS A RESULT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ACT OF 1871.
CLASSES WERE HELD IN MANY SMALL COMMUNITY AND CHURCH-RELATED SCHOOLS, AND BY 1923 THERE WERE 127 AFRJCAN AMERICAN STUDENTS IN THE A&M CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT. BUILDINGS ACCOMMODATED
ONLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS UNTIL AN AGREEMENT WAS REACHED TO BUS PUPILS TO THE KEMP HIGH SCHOOL IN BRYAN. THE A&M SCHOOL DISTRICT PAID THE EXPENSES. IN TIlE 1930s THE NUMBER OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS GREW STEADILY. RISING COSTS OF TUITION AND TRANSPORTATION PROMPTED THE A&M DISTRICT TO APPROVE AND BUILD A mGH SCHOOL IN COLLEGE STATION. THE A&M CONSOLIDATED
NEGRO SCHOOL OPENED IN 1941. AN ATHLETIC FIELD WAS ADDED IN 1946 AND THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL CHANGED TO LINCOLN SCHOOL. THE BUILDING WAS EXPANDED IN 1948. A FIRE IN 1966 DESTROYED ONE
OF THREE CLASSROOM BUILDINGS DISPLACING 100 STUDENTS. THE BURNED FACll..ITIES WERE NOT REBUILT. THE THE CITY OF COLLEGE STA nON LEASED THE LAND AND THE REMAINING FIVE BUll..DINGS IN
THE LATE 1960s, AND RESTORED THE SITE IN 1972. THE CITY BOUGHT THE LAND IN 1978 AND DEDICATED THE LINCOLN CENTER L"l 1980. THE FORMER SCHOOL IS NOW THE HOME OF MANY COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
IN COLLEGE STATION. 1997
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OFFICIAL TEXAS mSTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: African American Education in College Station Location: Lincoln Center, WOO
Eleanor City: College Station, Texas 77840 Category Code: BL (Black topics); ED (Educational topics: includes academies, colleges, schools, universities, teachers, and educators). Year:
1997 RTHLlMedailion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"T x 27"W) Subject marker with post REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: New Need for
Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Survey Conducted By: Cal and Rosemary Boykin Date: February 8, 1997
OFFIOAL STATE mSTORICAL MARKER THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRYAN THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRYAN TRACES ITS HISTORY TO 1862 WHEN ITS EARLIEST PREDECESSOR, A PRIVATE LENDING AGENCY, WAS
ESTABLISHED BY W.H. FLIPPEN AND MIL TON PARKER IN MILLICAN. IN 1867. AFrER THE HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL RAll..ROAD EXTENDED ITS LINE NORTH TO THE NEW CITY OF BRYAN. FLIPPEN BOUGHT OUT
PARKER'S INTEREST, MOVED TO THE NEW COMMUNITY AND MERGED HIS LENDING OPERATION WITH THAT OF GUY M. BRY AN. JR .• SON OF THE TOWN'S FOUNDER. Wll.LJAM JOEL BRYAN. GUY BRYAN, ALONG WITH
PARTNERS FRANK CLARKE AND 1. W. HOWELL. REORGANIZED THIS FINANCIAL ENTERPRISE AS A PRIVATE BANK IN 1873. 1.W. FOWLKES JOINED CLARKE. BRYAN AND HOWELL IN 1886. AND THE INS1TIUTION WAS
RENAMED THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRYAN AFTER BEING GRANTED THE ELEVENTH NATIONAL BANK CHARTER IN TEXAS. THE BANK WAS HOUSED IN THE FOWLKES AND TICBY BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN BRYAN UNTn..,
1919 WHEN IT WAS MOVED TO NEW FACILITIES AT 108 MAIN STREET. THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY, THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HAS SUPPORTED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. SURVIVED THE GREAT DEPRESSION THROUGH
CAREFUL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORTED MANY ACTIVITIES DURING WORLD WAR II INCLUDING AN AIR BASE IN BRYAN. THE BANK MOVED ITS MAThT FACILITY TO 2807 TEXAS A VENUE IN 1976. 1997
BRAZOS COUNTY m STORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: The First National Bank of Bryan Location: 2807 Texas Avenue South City: Bryan.
Texas 77802 Category Code: BK (Banks and Bankers) Year: 1997 RTHL/Medallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"T x 27"W) Subject marker with post REPL (The year the "original"
marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: New Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Survey Conducted By: Cal and Rosemary Boykin Date: April 21, 1997
OFFICIAL STATE mSTORICAL MARKER ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH ALTHOUGH CATHOLIC WORSHIP SERVICES WERE CELEBRATED IN BRYAN BY 1869, TFllS CHURCH TRACES ITS mSTORY TO THE EARLY 1870s. THE
FIRST CHURCH BUILDING WAS ERECTED ABOUT 1871 FOR A SMM.L ACTIVE PARISH. THE REVEREND JOHN MOORE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE FIRST FULL-TIME PASTOR OF ST. JOSEPH CHURCH OF BRYAN. FIRE DESTROYED
THE CHURCH STRUCTIJRE IN 1876. THE CONGREGATION HELD WORSHIP SERVICES IN TEMPORARY QUARTERS IN A LOCAL STORE BUlLDING UNTIL A NEW LOCATION WAS ESTABLISHED. IN 1883 THE MASONIC SCHOOLHOUSE
WAS PURCHASED FOR $500 AND CONVERTED
INTO A CHURCH AT A COST OF ABOUT $1,200. IN 1904 A NEW FRAME EDIFICE REPLACED THE CONVERTED SCHOOLHOUSE. ANOTHER STRUCTURE WAS BUILT AT EAST 26TH AND PRESTON STREETS AS THE CONGREGATION
GREW. A NEW CHURCH BUILDING WAS DEDICATED HERE IN 1960. PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED FOR CHURCH MEMBERS AND THE COMMUNlTY FOR DECADES, INCLUDING TRADmONAL SPIRITUAL ACI1VITIES AND SOCIAL
OUTREACH SUPPORT. ST. JOSEPH CHURCH HAS GROWN FROM A FRONTIER MISSION WITH A FEW MEMBERS TO A LARGE URBAN PARISH WITH MORE THAN 1600 FAMll.Y MEMBERS. THE CHURCH CONTINUES TO HAVE A STRONG
PRESENCE IN BRYAN AS IT HAS FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. 1997
BRAZOS COUNTY mSTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: St. Joseph Catholic Church Location: 600 E. 26th St. City: Bryan, Texas 77802
Category Code: CH (Churches, including church bells). Year: 1997 RTHLlMedallion Number: None Size & Type of Marker: L (42"T x 27"W) Subject marker with post REPL (The year the "original"
marker was replaced): N/A Current Condition: New Need for Repairs or Replacement: No Additional Remarks: Survey Conducted By: Cal and Rosemary Boykin Date: May 1, 1997
OFFICIAL STA 1E HISTORICAL MARKER JAMES WILSON IRELAND NATI VE JArv1ES WILSON IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1842. HE GRADUATED IN 1847 FROM LAFAYETTE COLLEGE IN BOSTON, AND FROM
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN 1850, THE YEAR HE WAS ORDAINED AS A PRESB YTERIAN MINISTER. wn.SON WAS SENT TO TEXAS IN 1856 AS A MISSIONARY IN BRAZOS COUNTY. DURING HIS 53 YEAR MINISTRY,
HE SERVED AS A CIRCUIT PREACHER AND ORGANIZER OF MANY BRAZOS V ALlEY PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATIONS, INCLUDING THOSE AT WHEELOCK, BRYAN AND CENTERVILLE. HE MARRIED LAURA BARNES, A PUBLlSHED
POET, 1N 1866. THEY ARE BURlED NEAR THE SITE OF A CHURCH HE FOUNDED. (1997)
BRAZOS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION SURVEY OF OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS IN BRAZOS COUNTY Marker Title: James Wilson Location: New Church Cemetery. Macey Road, off FM #974, north
of Hwy #21. Approximately 15 mi NE of Bryan. Edge Community. City: Bryan Category Code: PR (Priests, ministers, padres, rabbis) Year: 1997 RTHLlMedaliion Number: None Size & Type of
Marker: L (42"T x 27" W). On post. REPL (The year the "original" marker was replaced): Current Condition: New. Need for Repairs or Replacement: None Survey Conducted By: Cal & Rosemary
Boykin Date: July 4, 1998