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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

Bexar County Historical markers

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY (BEST GUESS)- 351
Have -247 Need- 104
 Bexar County is named for Presidio San Antonio de Bexar a Spanish fort. It is the 4th largest County in Texas and many other counties were made from Bexar County, San Antonio is the colorful county seat.
    I first visited San Antonio in 2004 this was in my first visit to the States before to becoming a "permanent resident". We stayed on the Riverwalk at the historic Le Mansion and thus began my relationship with San Antonio, a city I still get excited to visit. 
    As far as historical markers go Bexar County is messy, every reason that can make marker huntering difficult exists in Bexar County. It is fortunate that San Antonio is so much fun to visit or Steve may have given up the hunt here, altogether. Okay, so why is it difficult? To start, I have failed to locate  a complete list of all the markers, and when I say complete I mean including all the missing markers. Landmarks with associated markers that have been lost to Bexar counties' rapid development. Even the Alamo was once at risk to "progress" had not some  very determined women stepped in to save it. But while the Alamo was saved many other historical properties were lost. I try to include these with a picture of the property and marker if at all possible. The Texas Historical Commission entry for Bexar County has improved from when we first started our hobby back in 2005 but still contains many inaccurate entries and does depend on the help of the general public to report changes in location or markers that have vanished, there are several duplicates entries with slightly different titles. Bexar County actually has its own booklet which lists the majority of the easy to get to markers but does not address any missing markers. Bexar Historical Commission is very active and dedicate many new markers each year ands lets face they have a lot of great history and architecture to work with. They are not as busy however,  replacing old markers that have been lost to vandals, traffic accidents, roadwork or simply stolen and there are unfortunately are a lot. The best list I have found comes from the IPhone app "Texas Historical Marker Guide". Greg the app creator  has done a great job compiling his list, but like I'm sure our list, there are a few small errors just because we are making our lists from a combination of sources and for us time on the ground looking. 
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Bexar County has more buildings with single medallions than any other county we have been to thus far, these were placed in the sixties. Many of these are missing, so many in fact that I wonder if they were stolen or actually removed. I'm not sure if these are actually possible to replace as they come from a much older program. Another unique characteristic of Bexar County is that here the marker program started in the early 1900s so the markers can take a shape that is not just the aluminum plate or gray granite centennial we are all used to seeing. So they don't necessarily jump out at you. 
  They are also markers on private property which is always a little more challenging but worse than private property there a markers inside buildings and marker on military installations. This restricts access and means you have to plan your day around the times they are open to visitors. 
    Lastly San Antonio is a great city to walk around and you could easily walk to 50 of the markers around town, stopping for a margarita as needed, it is not however as much fun to drive around, it is very congested and there is almost continual roadwork. ​
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21st October, 2018- I not going to lie when a review of Bexar County comes up my heart sinks a little because I know that it feels like two steps forward and one step back. I do always clear up some mystery that previously had me confused, but there always some new quandary added. I think about what would help? and I realized that over the last few years when we visit Bexar County, in particular San Antonio it is always because there is another purpose. The last visit being a symposium. What is really needed is three or four days dedicated to marker hunting in this county, including a couple days with some focused walking around San Antonio. This would allow time to stop and visit with some of the building owners to see if they know what happened to the missing markers.
       On this occasion we looked for Old Houston Road with no success. The Schulze Hardware in Hemisfair Park is still there but there was no marker to be seen, it makes wonder if it was ever moved with the building or purposefully removed because the building was relocated to its current location. The Stockman Building also does not have it's marker on the outside of the building, we will try and take a peek inside on our next visit. 
       We did on this occasion get to visit Mi Tierra which is a San Antonio institution and I was pleasantly delighted, the food was good and the margarita excellent. We also had breakfast at Schilo's another long time favorite of San Antonio and it is simple yet consistently good food. We have a list of restaurants that we hope to visit and in Bexar County the list is long and we are slowly checking them off, it s a yummy adventure. 

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7th August, 2019 - We were in San Antonio this time for an interview and that was  my focus, intially from nervousness and after the interview in second guessing my performance. We did manage to capture some of the older markers which is always satisfying, we did not sadly, spend any time on the River Walk. Reviewing Bexar County is as frustrating as it always is and just as always I did uncover some new details which makes it worth another look. I did find out that the Battle of Alazan marker was confiscated by Treasury Agents, believing it was part of a defunct grocery  store, this must be one of the most interesting reasons a marker has gone missing. Bexar County is working on replacing the marker but the text will reworked. Moos Homestead is definately missing the medallion and plate. 


Old Houston Raod and 20th Decemeber, 2021 -  I'm starting a new review of San Antonio from a different angle this time .  Whenever we visit I have high hopes of making more progress and when it doesn't happen I feel a bit let down. Bexar County has many riddles and many missing markers and I always want to achieve more.  
   The Alamo was awarded the first historic meadllion for a building that is worth perservation, it is hard for me to imagine it was ever at risk but it was saved by the Daughers of the Republic of Texas. I have never seen the medallion on the building but maybe I haven't looked hard enough. The Alamo Masoni Cemetery Marker has been missing for many years and it would be up to the masons to pursue replacing it which thay have yet to do. Alamo Iron Works is listed to be at 101 Montana Street but we could not locate it. 
   We have looked for the Book Building marker many times, what is more surprising to us is not the missing marker but that the building has stood unused for over 15 years considering its location in downtown San Antonio. 
    Council House Fight,  we have not located, I have never seen a picture of and I'm suspicous of the fact the it actually exists. The Casa Villita house exists but we have not located the medallion but I confess I always get a little confused at what I am actually looking for when I visit La Villlita . The Confederate Monument was removed from Travis Park several years ago there is a lawsuit about where the statue will placed , one side wants it put back in Travis Park and the opposing side says it should be placed in a muesum. It's just my opinion but the longer the battle rages and the current political cli,mate I don't believe it will be reinstated in Travis Park. We were unable to locate the marker entitled Chihuahua Trail it was at at busy intersection so any thing could have happened. General Cos House has one of the old marble markers but it should also have a medallion which I have never seen. 
  Bexar County had I believe the most 1960's medallions granted and the good marjority of them are missing, for example the Eagar House. At this time Bexar County has also been busy putting up new markers,  I have yet to confirm whether the markers for Emma F. Shiner Home, Bluehole and Eastview Cemetery are up yet. 
    Fest-Steves Block is still up, at least the building is, but I have not seen the 18 x 28. The Statue for the Father of Mexican Independence is confusing to me. There is a statue at Hemisfair Parker but the date erected is noy 1965, we looked at the Baptist Hospital but did not find a statue there, thats not to say it could be in some hidden alcove. Fiesta House I believe maybe the Rhine Restaurant. The Forth Sam Houston, 4th U.S. Army Headquarters Quadraline, might just be another missing medallion?      
  The Groos National Bank marker I have no idea about where it is. I also unsure if G. J. Sutton marker is up yet. 
   The missions have as many markers missing as they have remaining. It seems unusual to me these marker would have been stolen, but I reall y don't know what happened Matamoros Road we have looked for with no success. It is said to be at very busy intersection so it could been a victim to an accident. 
 N.J. Niederman Home is is a mystery, I have no information no photoes and the google car makes it looks like it is not at the location incidation. 
 Old Houston Road and Old Military Hospital markers are missing. Old Military Hospital marker has been missing so long no one srrms to know what happened to it. The marble slab for O Henry Lived here, I have no idea about 
 The Rivas House on Houston I believe was razed. The Rubiola Store burnt down. I have no evidense that the marker for Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital has been placed. 
​  The  Salado Valley was in the Pecan Valley Gold Club and the golf course closed in 2012 so I'm not sure if it is still there. Santa Anna Headquarters was at 100 N. Main Street but on our last visit that building was torn down so I hope they saved it, but who knows?  San Antonio River Walk (Paseo Del Rio was on eof the first San Antonio markers with no success. I have asked the Bexar county historical commission and the River Walk Society but no one seems to know what happened to this marler.  The Schultze Stove and Hareware Company marker I believe the building no longer exists the marker is MIA.  Site of Vance House marker was at the syte of the house at Nueva and Dwyer streets but it was removed due to its associated with Robert E. Lee. Bexar County reported it wasn't a real historical marker anyway but it was state approved and at one was listed in the Texas Historical Commission atlas. Hopefully they placed it a musuem. Site of Old Veramendi House the marker was supposed to be inside the building at 130 Soledad Street but that was gutted when we was there recently so who knows if the marker was saved.  Stockman Building does not have a marker on it but we have yet to look inside which in San Antonio you have yo do before you say the marker is missing. St. Michael's Roman Catholic may or may not of been placed in Hemisphere Park.  I haven't confirm Station "X" yet either. 
  The Stockman building  should have a 18 x 28 aluminum subject marker and we have not looked inside which I would have to so before ruling the marker out as missing.  The Charge of Santa Anna's Third Column into the Alamo, not sure about this one I can no longer find it on the atlas. 
9th Cavalry at San Pedro Springs
​250th Anniversary of the Founding of San Antonio
Acequia 
Acequia de Arriba
Acequia Madre de Valero (Main Irrigation Ditch of Valero Mission)
Adina de Zavala
Adina Emila de Zavala
Alamo Cenotaph
Alamo Iron Works
Alamo Low Barracks and Main Gateway
Alamo Masonic Cemetery
Alamo Portland and Roman Cement Company
Aldrete Houses 
Alejo de la Encarnacion Perez
Alexander and Alma Oppenheimer Halff House
Alfred Giles Home
Algelt-Isbell House
Anna Barbara and Johann Engelbert Heidgen House
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church Cemetery
Anton Wulff House
Aqueduct
Arsenal Magazine
Barbed Wire
Barbed Wire Demonstration
"Battle" of Adams Hill
​Battle of Rosalis
Battle of the Alazan
Battle of the Salado
Belgian Transit of Venus Observation Site
Belknap Place
Benjamin Grossenbacher House
Benjamin Rush Milam
Ben Milam
Bexar County Courthouse
Bexar County under Nine Governments
Biesenbach House
Blue Hole
Boldtville Schoolhouse
Book Building
Bowen's Island
Bueche Cemetery
Building 100 "Taj Mahal"
Bullis House
Caile House
​Captain Lee Hall
Captain Richard Andrews
Capt. Jose Antonio Menchaca
Carl Wilhelm August Groos House
Casa Vieja
Casa Villita
Casino Club
Central Catholic High School
Central Christian Church
Chabot House
Charles F. A. and Emille Hummel House 
Charles Frederick King
Chihuahua Trail
Christ Episcopal Church
Christopher Columbus Italian Society Hall
Clara Driscoll (April 2, 1881 - July 17, 1945)
Coker Cemetery
Colonel Edward Miles
Colonel George Wythe Baylor
Colonel Henry Wax Karnes
Col. Jose Francisco Ruiz
Commerce Street Bridge
Confederate Cemetery
Confederate Cemetery
Confederate Monument
Confederate Tannery
Coppini Memorial
Cos House
Council House Fight
Cover Cemetery
Davenport Cemetery
David J. and May Bock Woodward House
Dawson Massacre
Dawson Massacre Memorial
Dodd Field (Fort Sam Houston) Enemy Alien Detention Site, WWII
Dolores Aldrete House
Dominguez-Micheli Houses
Don Jose De Jesus Rodriguez
Don Jose Miguel de Arciniega
Don Juan Ximenes
Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla 

Dr. Claudius E. R. King House
Eagar House
Early Court House
Early San Antonio Boarding House

Eastview Cemetery
Edens Cemetery
Edward H. White II Memorial Hangar, Brooks Air Force Base
El Carmen Cemetery (Cementerio del Carmen) 
Elias and Lucy Edmonds House
El Quartel (El Cuartel)
Emil Elmendorf House
Emma F. Shiner Home   
Emma Tenayuca
Engleman-Muench House
​Enoch Jones Farmstead
Enrique Espara (September, 1824 - December 20, 1917)
Erasmus Seguin
Ernst Homestead
Evers Family Cemetery
Father of Mexican Independence
Fest-Steves Block
Fiesta House
First Inhabitant
First Officers Training Camp
First Parish Church of San Antonio
First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston, 4th U.S. Army Headquarters Quadraline

Founding of the Pan American Round Table
Francisco Madero in Texas
Funeral Pyre
Gallagher Ranch House
General Cos
Genius of Music
Gen. Robert E. Lee Headquarters
Georg Heinrich Buchsenschulz Family Cemetery
George Isbell Home
George W. Brackenridge
Gerfers Cemetery
German-English School
Gilbeau Slave Quarters
G. J. Sutton
Goliad Road
Gould-Onderdonk House
Groos National Bank
Guenther's Upper Mill
Gugger Homestead
Gustav Blersch House
Halff House
Hamilton P. Bee
Hangar Nine
Harrison and McCulloch Stage Stop
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Heidermann Family Cemetery
Helotes
Hendrick Arnold
Henry Porter Field (P. F.) Roberts 
Here Lived Francisco Ruiz
Home of Samuel Augustus Maverick
Huebner-Onion Homestead and Stagecoach Stop
Incarnate Word College
Italian American Community in San Antonio
In Re Ricardo Rodriguez
Jack Hays House
James Nathaniel Fisk 
Jay Adams House
Jefferson Davis Highway
​Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway
Jefferson Davis Smith
J. M. and Birdie Nix House
John Hermann Kampmann
John "Jack"" Coker
John Lang Sinclair
John Salmon "Rip" Ford
John T. Floore County Store
John Twohig Homesite
John Twohig Lived on These Grounds
John Wesley DeViBiss 
John W. Smith
Jose Antonio Navarro 
Jose Francisco Ruiz
Juan Ignacio Perez Land Grant 
Kelly Air Force Base
"Kelly No. 2"Flight Line
King William Neighborhood
Krause House/Mann's Crossing Post Office
La Quinta de las Piedras (Miguel Menchaca House)
La Villita
L. B. Clegg House
Little Church of La Vililta
Locke Hill Auditorium
Lockhill School
Ludwig Mahncke
Lydia Mendoza 
Mary Virginia Burkholder
Majestic Theatre
Marnoch Homestead
Matamoros Road
Maverick-Carter House
McCulloch Cemetery
Menger Hotel
Menger Soap Works 
Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla Father of Mexican Independence
Mission Concepcion
Mission San Francisco de la Espada Dam, Ditch and Aqueduct

Mission San Francisco de la Espada
M
ission San Francisco de la Espada (Mission St. Francis of the Sword)
Mission San Francisco Xavier de Najera
Mission San Jose
Mission San Juan Capistrano

Mission San Juan Capistrano
Monte Vista Historic District
Monier House

Moos Homestead
Moses Austin
Moses Lapham
Mrs. Simona Smith Fisk
Myra Lillian Davis Hemmings
Navarro Houses
N. J. Neiderman Home
Norton-Polk-Mathis House
O. Henry House
O Henry Lived Here 
Old Edward Steves (Stevens) House
Old Houston Road
Old Military Headquarters
Old Military Hospital 
Old Mill on the Pajalache Acequia
Old Powder Mill
Old San Antonio National Bank Building
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road

Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Antonio Road
Old San Pedro Springs
Old S. J. Brooks Home
Old St. Mary's College
Old St. Mary's College
Old Ursuline Academy
Original Site of St. Philip's College
Oscar and Rachel Berman House
Otto Koehler House
Our Lady of the Lake University
Pajalche Acequia (Ditch)
Perelda House
Perote Prisoners
Perrin Home
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Petty House
Placido Olivarri
Plaza De Armas (Military Plaza)
Protestant Home for Destitute Children
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Polish Quarter
Rambie-Lewis Family Cemetery
Rechel-Stumpf House
Rivas House
R. L. White Ranch
Robert B. Evans Home
Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital 
Route of El Camino Real
Roy and Madge Hearne House
Rubiola Store

Ruiz-Herrera Cemetery
Ruiz House
Saint Hedwig
Saint Mark's Episcopal Church
Saint Philip's College
Saint Phillip's Episcopal Church
Salado Valley
Salem Cemetery
Samuel S. Smith
San Antonio Casino Club Building
San Antonio High School
San Antonio Mutual Aid Association
San Antonio River Walk (Paseo Del Rio)
San Antonio Section, National Council of Jewish Women
San Fernando Cathedral
San Francisco Di Paola Catholic Church
San Petro Creek
Santa Anna Headquarters
Sartor House
Scenic Loop - Boerne Stage _ Toutant Beauregard Historic Corridor
Scenic Loop Playground
Schultze Hardware Store
Schulze-Schilo House
Schultze Stove and Hareware Company

Scottish Rite Cathedral
Second Baptist Church of San Antonio
Silvestre Revueltas
Site of Camp Bowie and Fannin
Site of Camp of Stephen F. Austin
Site of de la Garza House Gardens and Mint
Site of Home of Samuel Augustus Maverick
Site of First Portland Cement Plant
Site of Geier and Schmid Farm
Site of Governor Musquiz Residence
Site of Idlewild Community
Site of "Old Adobe"
Site of "Old St. Mary's"
Site of Old Veramendi House
Site of Original Building First Baptist Church

Site of Rincon/Douglass School
Site of the Home of Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Herff
Site of Vance House
Spanish and Mexican Land Grants
Spanish Governor's Palace
Springs
Staacke Brothers Building
Station X
Stevens Building
Stinson Airport
St. Anthony Catholic School
St. John's Lutheran Church, "the Rooster Church"
St. Joseph's Church
St. Mark's Episcopal Church                                                                                                                                 
St Mary's University
St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church
Stockman Building
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
St. Paul United Methodist Church
Sunshine Ranch
Surrender of Federal Forces by General David E. Twiggs
T. C. Frost and the Frost Bank
T. C. Frost Wool Warehouse

Texas and the Civil War Committee on Public Safety
Texas' First All Spanish Radio Program-- "The International Goodwill Program"
The Alamo
The Argyle
The Battle of Medina
The Canary Islanders
The Casas Reales
​The Charge of Santa Anna's Third Column into the Alamo
The Grass Fight
The Madison Square Presbyterian Church

The Oge House
The Pershing Chinese
The Rev. John Wesley DeVilbiss
The Southwell Company

Thiele Cottage
Thomas Jefferson High School
Toltec Apartments
Travis Park United Methodist Church
Twohig House
United States San Antonio Arsenal
Ursuline Convent and Academy
Venustiano Carranza 
Vicinity of the Storming of Bexar
Vogel Cemetery
Vollrath Building
W. B Teagarden House
Wesley Peacock House
Wetmore Community Cemetery
William and Maryann Richter House
Wolfson House
Woll Invasion
Woman's Club of San Antonio
Young Perry Albury
Yturri House
Yturri Homestead and Mill
Zambrano House
Zero Milestone Old Spanish Trail Highway
Zion Lutheran Church 
Zion Lutheran Church and Cemetery
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