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Clear Creek Confederate War Camps
Hempstead, TX
Although no physical evidence has been found of the Confederate camp sites in this area, historical accounts have established that this...
Gen. George and Libbie Custer Campsite
Hempstead vicinity, TX
Soon after the Civil War General George Armstrong Custer and his cavalry unit arrived in Texas as part of a large U.S. force sent to...
Groce Family Plantations
Hempstead vicinity, TX
Pioneers in this Texas area.
Heinrich Konrad Karl Leverkuhn
Waller, TX
(July 22, 1842 -- November 11, 1915) German-born Heinrich Leverkuhn cane to Texas in 1857 and was a foragemaster for the Confederate army...
Hempstead High School
Hempstead, TX
When the town of Hempstead was founded in 1856, a centrally located school site was platted; however, no school building was erected...
Isaac Best
Pattison, TX
(1774-1837> One of the "Old 300" settlers of Stephen F. Austin's colony, Isaac Best spent his early life in Pennsylvania and Kentucky,...
Jacob E. Freeman
Prairie View, TX
In response to the political, social and economic turmoil in Texas and the South after the Civil War, the federal government enacted the...
James Tarrant Pattison Homesite
Pattison, TX
Located at important junction of Atascosito Road and the San Felipe Trail, this homesite was established by James Tarrant and Sarah Smith...
Judge Edwin Waller
(March 16, 1800 -- January 3, 1881) Virginia native Edwin Waller migrated to Texas from Missouri in 1831 as part of Stephen F. Austin's...
Liendo Plantation
Hempstead, TX
1853 - named for Spanish grantee Justo Leindo, first to own this land.
Madison "Matt" "Kilpatrick"
Hempstead, TX
(1892 - Dec. 1, 1910) Came to Waller County as a runaway slave from Alabama before Civil War.
Norris Wright Cuney
Hempstead vicinity, TX
(May 12, 1846 - March 3, 1898) Born in the slave quarters of Sunnyside Plantation (3.2 mi.SE), Cuney displayed such intelligence as a boy...
Prairie View A&M University
Prairie View, TX
Authorized by the Texas legislature in 1876, the "Agricultural and Mechanical College for Colored Youth" was Texas' second...
Waller County
Hempstead, TX
Created from Austin and Grimes counties, April 28, and organized Aug. 16, 1873.