Galveston County Historical Markers
NUMBER OF MARKER IN COUNTY - 324
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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