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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

Galveston County Historical Markers

NUMBER OF MARKER IN COUNTY - 324
Have -33  Need- 273
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       Galveston County is named in honor of Bernardo de Galvez. County seat is Galveston. 
      It is a running joke between myself and Steve, that I have yet to visit Galveston. It started way back when I had first arrived and Galveston came up because I love the beach. I mentioned something about maybe visiting and Steve said I would be disappointed because the Galveston beaches are not the Sydney beaches I was used too. So now every time someone asks why I have yet to visit Galveston my answer is, because my husband won't take me! Galveston of course is not just about the beaches, it is an area rich in early Texas history, wonderful architecture much of which has with stood some very punishing weather and great restaurants and reviewing this county I only want to visit more. 
   We have been marker hunting in the county, all be it briefly,  during an overnight trip to Kemah but by far, the largest amount of markers are in Galveston. I not very going to start to comment on these markers as storms and time make it difficult to know what is still in place. 

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17th October, 2021 - This  last trip was my first time to Galveston. We have been to Kemah and a few suburbs in  Galveston County but not Galveston itself. My Brother-in-law and sister-in-law now live in Texas City and ths was our first visit to their new home. This was not really a marker trip. My sister-in-law and I ate at Miller's Seawall for lunch and I friggen love this restaurant. The shrimp and grits were so good and the glass of wine was more like a small bucket. At work I had been dealing with the pandemic and a nursing shortage and this weekend was the first opportunity I'd had to put work aside in months. So this meal will always hold a special place in my heart. We also ate at the Black Pearl and it was okay, it had a nice atmosphere and the food was good my brother-in-law said he would go back for the red beans and rice but there is nothing that would pull me back like at Miller's Seawall. 
My sister-in-law and I attended the Galveston historical house tour which was a lot of fun. I loved what I saw of Galveston and I can't wait to go back. There is so much to explore and of course there is a couple of hundred markers to capture. I have researched the markers and already know there will be challenges there are missing markers maybe not as many as I would expect given the age and environmental factors. 

1871 Thomas Jefferson League Building
Adriance-Springer House 
Adolph and Regina Frenkel House 
Albertson Home

Alta Loma 
Alta Loma Cemetery
American National Insurance Company
American Red Cross, Galveston County Chapter
Arcadia Christian Church
Ashbel Smith, 1805-1886 
Ashton Villa, 1859
Avenue L Missionary Baptist Church 
A. Wilkins Miller Cottage 
Baden-Sproule House 
Ball High School 
Battle of Galveston 1863
Battle of Galveston
Bernard Moore Temple 
Bernardo De Galvez
Best-Lucas House
Blue Star Memorial
Boddeker House 
Boliver Point
Booker T. Washington School 
Burial Site of David G. Burnet
Campbell Home 
Camp Wallace
Captain William S. Fisher
Carl and Hilda Biehl House
Carmelo "Charles" Bertolino 
Catherine Isabel Cox Sherman 
Cecil and Frances Brown House 
Cedar Lawn 
C. F. Marschner Building 
Charles Cronea
Civil War Fortification at Virginia's Point
City of Hitchcock
Clarke-Jockusch Home
Confederate Mariner: Leon Smith 
Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue
Cordray Drug store 
Crenshaw Family Cemetery
Dairy Industry in the Santa Fe Area
David Ayers
Davison Home 
Davidson-Penland House
Dickinson Station of the Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railroad Co. 
"Dignified Resignation" 
Dominican Sisters Congregation of the Sacred Heart 
Dr. Frederick K. and Lucy Adelaide Fisher House 
Early History of Galveston County 
Eaton Memorial Chapel 
E. S. Levy and Company 
​Evergreen Cemetery 
​Exploration of Galveston County 
Fairview Cemetery
Faith United Methodist Church 
Fig Industry in Friendwood 
First Aero Squadron 
First Baptist Church of Galveston 
First Baptist Church of League City
First Baptist Church of Texas City 
First Hutchins-Sealy National Bank 
First Lutheran Church 
First Methodist Church of Texas City 
First Navy of the Republic of Texas 
First Presbyterian Church 
First United Methodist Church of Dickinson
First Union Baptist Church 
First Wharf in Galveston
Flood & Calvert Building
Former Site of Heidenheimer's Castle 
Fort Travis 
Frank Bell, Jr. 
Franklin-Wandless House 
Frederich-Erhard House
Frederick William Beissner House 
Friends Church Cemetery
Friendswood 
Gaido's Famous Seafood Restaurant 
Gail Borden, Jr. 
Galilee Missionary Baptist Church 
Galveston Artillery Club
Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Galveston Children's Home 
Galveston County, 1901 - 1965
Galveston County Communities 
Galveston, C.S.A.
Galveston Garten Verein
Galveston: Gateway to Texas
Galveston Historical Foundation
Galveston Immigration Stations
Galveston in the Republic of Texas 
Galveston Island 
Galveton Medical College
Galveston "News," C.S.A. 
Galveston Office of the National Weather Service 
Galveston Orphans Home
Galveston Quarantine Stations
Galveston Seawall 
George Campbell Childress 
George Campbell Childress 
George Dealey
George Fox House
George H. Nichols

George Seeligson Home
George Washington Chapter - DAR
Grace Episcopal Church
Grand Opera House 1894
Greater Bell Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Greek Orthodox Cemetery
Greensville S. Dowell 
Grover-Chambers House 
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company 
Hagemann-Cobb House 
Hawes Summer House
Heidenheimer-Hunter Building
Helen E. Ebert

Hendley's Row
Henry C. Henrk, Jr. House 
Henry Journeay
Henry Rosenberg
Henry Rosenberg Home
High Island 
Hitchcock Depot
Holy Rosary Catholic Church

​Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Homesite of Adolph Dolson
Homesite of Dr. William Keiller
Hotel Galvez
Hutchings House 
Hutchings House
Hutchings, Sealy & Co. Building 
Isaac H. and Henrietta Kempner House 
Isaac Heffron House
Isabella Offenbach Maas Residence
Jackie Andews Private School 
Jack Johnson 
Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long

James Love
James N. Davis House 
James S. Waters House

Jean Lafitte
J. F. Smith & Brothers
J. F. Smith House 
J. Levy & Bro. 
John and Eliza Hertford House 
John Bankhead Magruder
John Berlocher Building
John M. Jones House 
John Overton Trueheart (ca. 1802 - March 13, 1874)
John Smith House
Julius H. Ruhl Residence 
Juneteenth
Karankawa Campsite 
Kemah
Lafitte's Grove
La Marque 
Landes-McDonough House
Lasker Home for Children
League Park 
Lent Munson Hitchcock 
Leon & H. Blum Co. Building
Leon Smith, Confederate Mariner
Levi Charles Meyers Harby
Lockhart House
Lorraine Crosby School
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Louis Trezevant Wigfall 
Lt. Commander Edward Lea
Magate Building 
Magnolia Creek Cemetery
Mainland Mission Churches
Major John M. Allen
Major Leon Dyer 
Mallory-Produce Building
Mardi Gras in Galveston

Mathilda Wehmeyer German-American Kindergarten School
Maud Moller House
Max Faget House

Menard-Ganter House 
Michel B. Menard
Miller-Branamour Menard
Miller-Jacobs Home
Miss Galveston/Santa Maria
Moody Hall

Nabor Biggs Yard
Near Campsites of Louis-Michel Aury and Franciso Xavier Mina 
Nicholas D. Ladadie
Nicholas J. Clayton
Norris Wright Cuney
Old Austin Home 
Old Ball Home 
Old Bay Lake Ranch 
Old Galveston Market House and City Hall 
Old H. B. Moore Home 
Old Masonic Temple
Old Red, Ashbel Smith Building
Old Synagogue Building
Olga Samaroff

Open Gates
Original Oleander Planting in Galveston 
Original Site of First Baptist Church of Alta Loma
Original Site of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum 
Paul's Union Church 
Peter Leroy Colombo 
Phillips Memorial Cemetery
Pier 19, Mosquito Fleet Berth 
Point Bolivar 
Poole-Parker House 
Powhatan and Mattie Wren House 
Powhatan House 
Public Education for Blacks in Galveston
Quigg-Baulard Cottage 
Rabbi Henry Cohen 
Reconstruction to 1900, Galveston County 
Reedy Chapel A. M. E. Church
Reedy Chapel A. M. E. Churc
Rollover Fish Pass 
Rosewood Cemetery
Runge Park 
Sacred Heart Church 
Saint Paul United Methodist Church 
Samuel May Williams 
Samuel May Williams
San Leon
San Leon Cemetery
Santa Fe Consolidated High School 
Santa Fe Union Station 
Schreiber-Miller Warehouse
Scottish Rite Masonry in Texas 
Settlement Community 
Shreiber-Miller Warehouse
Shiloh A. M. E. Church 
Shoal Point and Half Moon Shoal Lighthouse 
Sidney Sherman 
Site of Austinia 
Site of Clifton-by-the-Sea
Site of Galveston County Poor Farm 

Site of Galveston  Seminary
Site of the Home of Michel Branamour Menard
Site of Landmark Campbell's Bayou 
Site of Magnolia Grove Cemetery
Site of Old Saint Mary's Infirmary 
Site of Ursuline Convent and Academy
Smith-Hartley House

Sociedad Mutualista Mexicana in Texas City
Sonnentheil Home
S.S. Selma
Stewart Building
Stewart Property
St. George's Episcopal Church 
St. Joseph's Church
St. Mary's Cathedral
St. Mary's Infirmary
​St. Mary's Mission Church
St. Mary's Hospital
St. Patrick Catholic Church 
St. Paul United Methodist Church  
Stringfellow Orchards
Sweeney-Royston House 
Texas Bar Association
Texas City 
Texas City Dike 
Texas City Memorial Cemetery
Texas City Terminal Railway Company 
Texas Revolution and Civil War, Galveston County
Texas Revolution Monument
Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution 
Texas Sugar Refining Company 
The Bishop's Palace 
The Breakers
The Breakers
The Cottage 
The Cradle 
The First Texas City Refinery 
The Galveston Movement

The Heidenheimer Bros. Marine Building
The Italian Vault 
The Maas House 
The Mexican Telegraph Company _ The Zimmerman Company
The Moody Home
The Original Galveston Seawall 
The Rev. Henry P. Young 
The Rosenberg Library
The Rt. Rev. Monsignor James Martin Kirwin 
The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Marius Etienne Chataignon
The Stewart Building
The Texas City Disaster 
The Texas Navy 
The Wilbur Cherry House 
Thomas Chubb House 
Thomas Henry Borden 
Thomas Joseph
T. J. and Mary Lelia Dick House 
T. J. and Mary Lelia Dick House 
Townsite of Dickinson

Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church 
​Trube House 
Trueheart-Adriance Building 
U. S Army Camp at Texas City 
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U. S. Naval Air Station (Blimp Base) 
Ursuline Convent in the Civil War 
Ursuline Nuns in Galveston
Valentine T. Dalton 
Victor Gustafson Home 
Warren D. C. Hall 
Washington Hotel 
Wedell's Corner
Wegner House 
West Galveston Island
Wesley Tabernacle United Methodist Church 
West Point Baptist Church 
Wilbur Cherry 
Wiilliam and Adele Skinner House

William and Lena Juneman Smith 
William Jefferson Jones
William J. Killeen House 
William Lewis Moody, Jr. 
William Tennant Austin 
Williams-Tucker House, 1837-40
Woodmen of the World 
World War I Honor Roll 
Word War I Physicians in Galveston
W.P. Ballinger Law Firm 
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  • Greenbrier Cemetery
  • Wilson Chapel Methodist Church
  • Marian Anderson High School
  • Alfred M. Hallmark
  • Frank Mulder Gossett
  • No 57: Old San Antonio Road
  • Zephyr Cemetery
  • Zephyr Gospel Tabernacle
  • First Baptist Church of Zephyr
  • Military Road
  • Zephyr Presbyterian Church
  • Burkett Pecan Tree
  • Hittson Ranch
  • Callahan City Cemetery
  • Admiral Baptist Church
  • Belle Plaine Cemetery
  • Ross Cemetery
  • Callahan County
  • The Prew House
  • Brooke Smith
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham
  • Ebenezer Baptist Church
  • Dodge
  • Site of Andrew Female College
  • Glendale Cemetery
  • Community of Fodice
  • Holy Rosary Catholic Parish
  • Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba
  • B. T. Brown House
  • German Methodist Church/First Fire Station
  • Providence Church and Cemetery
  • Packsaddle Mountain
  • Homesite of W. F. Heller, Pioneer Farmer
  • The Bosque-Larios Expedition
  • No. 60 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 56 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 59 Old San Antonio Road
  • Texas Central Railroad
  • Center City Community
  • Orla
  • Fairview Cemetery
  • Leon County Courthouse
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Judge H.T. Brown
  • Washington County, C.S.A.
  • Leander
  • Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps
  • Jacob Haller House
  • James M. Holt
  • Washington-on-the Brazos
  • Donigan House
  • Fort Worth Stock Yards Entrance
  • Smithfield Baptist Church
  • Elite Cafe
  • Joseph Brooks Home
  • Phair Cemetery
  • Robert Justus Kleberg
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