Hays

30 historical markers in Texas

Buda

Buda, TX

Originally known as Du Pre, Buda was founded along a line of the International and Great Northern Railroad.

Bunton Branch Bridge

Kyle, TX

Bridge No. 44, now known as the Bunton Branch Bridge, is located just north of Kyle on a north-south section of road that parallels...

Burleson Home

San Marcos, TX

Home of Gen. Edward Burleson (1793-1851), officer in Texas War for Independence; vice president of Republic of Texas, 1841-1844; leader...

Camp Ben Mc Culloch No. 946, United Confederate Veterans

Driftwood, TX

Hays County Confederate veterans and their families gathered for a reunion in the summer of 1896 and formally organized the Camp Ben...

Claiborne Kyle Log House

Kyle, TX

Col. John Claiborne Kyle (d. 1867) and his wife Lucy (Bugg) (d. 1863), natives of Tennessee came to the Republic of texas from...

Don Felipe Roque de la Portilla

San Marcos, TX

At the request of Manuel Antonio Cordero y Bustamante, interim Governor of the Province of Texas, Spanish-born Army captain and rancher,...

Dr. Joseph M. Pound Homestead

Dripping Springs, TX

Pioneer settlers Dr. Joseph M. Pound and his wife Sarah Dunbiken Ward lived here and raised nine children.

Dr. Joseph Mc Keaig Pound

Dripping Springs, TX

(1826-1914) Born to Johnathan and Mary (Risley) Pound on October 26, 1826, near Louisville, Kentucky, Joseph Pound was a...

Eli T. Merriman Home

San Marcos, TX

Built about 1846 by Dr. Eli T. Merriman (1815-1867), Yale graduate, 1838 Texas settler.

Eliza Pitts Malone

San Marcos, TX

In 1842, Eliza Pitts (1832-1923) and her parents came to Texas from Georgia.

Farmers Union Gin Company

San Marcos, TX

Local farmers Henry Kellerman, J. H. Barbee, A. H. Fleming, I. B. Rylander, and J. H. Williams purchased this site in 1908.

First National Bank of San Marcos

San Marcos, TX

Ed J. L. Green (1841-1924) came to San Marcos in 1859 from Arkansas.

George Henry Talmadge Home

San Marcos, TX

A farmer from Illinois, George H. Talmadge (1840-1911) served in the Union Army during the Civil War.

George Thomas Mc Gehee House

San Marcos, TX

Among the first settlers in the San Marcos area, George Thomas McGehee (1836-1926) moved here with his parents, Minerva (Hunt) and Thomas...

John Henry Saunders Homestead

Wimberley, TX

Born in Virginia, John Henry Saunders (1850-1919) served in the Confederate Cavalry and came to Texas in 1870, via Tennessee and Indian...

John Wheeler Bunton

Kyle, TX

Born in Sumner County, Tenn.

Joseph B. Rogers House

Driftwood, TX

The son of settlers who came to Texas in 1831, Joseph B. Rogers (1833-1912) served with Terry's Texas Rangers in the Civil War.

Joseph W. Earnest Home

San Marcos, TX

A native of Tennessee, Joseph W. Earnest (1844-1920) migrated to Hays County with his parents in 1854.

Katherine Anne Porter

Kyle, TX

(May 15, 1890 - September 18, 1980) Katherine Anne Porter, one of America's most distinguished writers of fiction, was born Callie...

Kyle

Kyle, TX

Two antebellum settlements, the Blanco or Nance community (7 mi. W) and Mountain City (3 mi. W), provided the early population and...

Kyle Depot

Kyle, TX

As the International and Great Northern Railroad (I&GN) extended from Austin to San Antonio, the Kyle and Moore families granted 200...

Mc Gehee Crossing

San Marcos, TX

The Camino Real, also known as the Old San Antonio Road and the King's Highway, followed a route from Nacogdoches to the Rio Grande.

Ragsdale-Jackman-Yarbrough House

San Marcos, TX

Built in 1868 by Peter C. Ragsdale (1810-1882), veteran of the army of the Republic of Texas.

San Marcos Mill Tract

San Marcos, TX

Located on land that was granted to Juan M. de Veramendi in 1831, this tract was purchased by edward Burleson (1793-1851) in 1844.

Site of Hays County's First Public Building

San Marcos, TX

Early San Marcos settlers erected log house here in 1847.

Site of San Marcos National Fish Hatchery

San Marcos, TX

(First Federal fish hatchery in Texas) Established in 1893 on the 25-acre tract known as the W. D. Wood place.

Stringtown

San Marcos, TX

John Drayton Pitts (1798-1861) was born, according to family lore, on a ship as his parents sailed to America.

W. T. Chapman

Dripping Springs, TX

Born in Georgia, William Thomas Chapman (1835-1917) came to Texas after the Civil War during which he was wounded, incarcerated and...

William W. Moon

San Marcos, TX

(March 25, 1814 - Jan. 7, 1897) Orphaned two days after his birth, William W. Moon grew up with two uncles in his native Alabama.

WPA Projects at Kyle School

Kyle, TX

Public education in the Kyle area dates to the Texas Constitution of 1876 and its establishment of a statewide free school system.

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