Nueces County Historical Markers
NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 140
Have - 123 Need - 17
Named for the Nueces River. County seat is Corpus Christi. I love the beach, I have been going to the beach as long as I remember, family holidays growing up were always by the ocean. So when I first visited the States and Steve suggested we visit Corpus Christi I was excited to go. Please forgive me for being a little disappointed. My frame of reference was Australia or topical vacations in Asia or south Pacific islands, so to me the coast is about low key or a relaxed atmosphere, Corpus Christi more gritty, a working man's town. Saying that it's all about expectations I have come to terms with what Corpus Christi is and what it isn't and I always enjoy our visits, having now been numerous times over the years. One thing we always do is go to Water Street Seafood Market (it just recently closed) it was something we always did on our first night there. Water Street Oyster and Sushi Bar is still there so we will probably continue our tradition there.
Now on to the markers. When we visited in 2005 it was as part of our honeymoon on the way to South Padre. At that time I was putting the photos in an album and writing out the text as my photos were not always of the best quality. In Nueces County the large majority of the marker are 27 x 42 sooo a lot of writing later I decided a website would probably be a better and more efficient way to organize and display our captures. Nueces County has a very robust historical commission and they usually had several markers each year, so everytime we visit there are always more markers to capture. The thing about markers in Nueces County there can be a considerable gap between when the Texas Historical Commission approves the application to when they are actually erected. The Centennial Memorial Museum is noted to have been given a marker in 2013 I believe it is yet to be erected, the Ritz Theatre has been listed longer than that with no marker in sight. Nueces County 18 x 28 Subject marker with should be at the courthouse is missing. I don't believe the Palo Alto Marker was ever erected. I have sought the council of the Nueces County Historical Commission for answers. It's taken us over ten years and many trips to capture almost the older markers (still two left) as Nueces is large and sprawling region covering a large are from the ocean to rural farming areas, it is also very busy so driving to all these markers takes time and patience. I will say it's usually in a good way that the majority of the markers are still in place when we finally get to them. One we did miss was the Theodore Merchant Lawrence marker it was once on McBride Road it had been missing for many years and has now been replaced and is at Heritage next to his house which was moved to the park. The text is slightly different, something that we have seen at more recently as counties replace these older missing markers they often adjust the text to include something missing or make them more accurate.
I feel like as long as we visit Nueces County there will almost be new markers to capture, it is a county I believe we will never actually get finished but that okay as I said my relationship with Corpus has evolved over the years and I always look forward to our visits.
Now on to the markers. When we visited in 2005 it was as part of our honeymoon on the way to South Padre. At that time I was putting the photos in an album and writing out the text as my photos were not always of the best quality. In Nueces County the large majority of the marker are 27 x 42 sooo a lot of writing later I decided a website would probably be a better and more efficient way to organize and display our captures. Nueces County has a very robust historical commission and they usually had several markers each year, so everytime we visit there are always more markers to capture. The thing about markers in Nueces County there can be a considerable gap between when the Texas Historical Commission approves the application to when they are actually erected. The Centennial Memorial Museum is noted to have been given a marker in 2013 I believe it is yet to be erected, the Ritz Theatre has been listed longer than that with no marker in sight. Nueces County 18 x 28 Subject marker with should be at the courthouse is missing. I don't believe the Palo Alto Marker was ever erected. I have sought the council of the Nueces County Historical Commission for answers. It's taken us over ten years and many trips to capture almost the older markers (still two left) as Nueces is large and sprawling region covering a large are from the ocean to rural farming areas, it is also very busy so driving to all these markers takes time and patience. I will say it's usually in a good way that the majority of the markers are still in place when we finally get to them. One we did miss was the Theodore Merchant Lawrence marker it was once on McBride Road it had been missing for many years and has now been replaced and is at Heritage next to his house which was moved to the park. The text is slightly different, something that we have seen at more recently as counties replace these older missing markers they often adjust the text to include something missing or make them more accurate.
I feel like as long as we visit Nueces County there will almost be new markers to capture, it is a county I believe we will never actually get finished but that okay as I said my relationship with Corpus has evolved over the years and I always look forward to our visits.
1919 Storm
1941 Corpus Christi Seawall
Agua Dulce
Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda
Antonio E. Garcia
Aransas Pass, C.S.A.
Artesian Park and Sulphur Well
Arthur Edward Spohn, M. D. and Spohn Hospital
Banquete Cemetery
Banquete, C.S.A.
Battle of Agua Dulce
Bishop
Broadway Bluff Improvement
Business Building (demolished)
Calallen
Captain Enrique Villarreal and Rincon del Oso Land Grant
Casa Blanca Land Grant
Cattle Drives from South Texas
Centennial House
Centennial House
Centennial Memorial Museum
Chapman Ranch
Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal
Clara Driscoll, The Driscoll Foundation and Driscoll Children's Hospital
Coastal Hide, Tallow and Packing Industries
Corpus Christi, 1861 - 1865
Corpus Christi and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Corpus Christi Cathedral
Corpus Christi College-Academy
Corpus Christi Fire Department
Duncan Cemetery
Early History of Port of Corpus Christi
Elihu Harrison Ropes
Eli Todd Merriman
Explosion of the Steamship Dayton
Felix von Blucher
First Baptist Church of Bishop
First Baptist Church of Corpus Christi
First Methodist Church of Corpus Christi
First Presbyterian Church of Corpus Christi
First United Methodist Church of Bishop
First United Methodist Church of Robstown
Flour Bluff
Flour Bluff Independent School District
Fort Lipantitlan
Fort Lipantitlan
Fort Lipantitlan
French-Galvan House
Galvan Ballroom
General W. W. Sterling
George H. Paul Building Site
George Washington Hockley
German POW Camp at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
Gold Star Court of Honor
Grande-Grossman House
Grossman-Graham House
Guaranty Title Company
Gutzon Borglum and the Corpus Christi Bayfront
Hebrew Rest Cemetery
Hector P. Garcia, M. D.
Henry Lawrence Kinney
Hilltop Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Hotel Brendle
Irishtown
Jalufka-Govatos House
Jefferson Davis Highway No. 16
John Dix
John Dunn, Jr. Homesite
Karankawa Indians
Kelsey Memorial Methodist Church (Iglesia Metodista Kelsey Memorial)
Kovner-Bobys Homestead (aka Merriman-Bobys House)
Louis de Planque
LULAC
Martha (Reagan) Rabb
Matthew Dunn
McCampbell House
Merriman House (Merriman-Bobys House)
Moravian Club of Nueces County
Moses Menger Elementary School
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Mustang Island
Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi
Nicholas Bluntzer
Nueces County
Nueces County
Nueces County Courthouse of 1914
Nuecestown
Nuecestown Cemetery
Nuecestown Raid
Nuecestown Schoolhouse
Old Bayview Cemetery
Old Bayview Cemetery
Old Saint Anthony's Catholic Church
Old St. Patrick's Church
Padre Island and Padre Nichols Balli
Palo Alto
Pat Dunn Ranch
Queen of the Sea
Rabbi Sidney A. Wolf
Richard King House
Ritz Theater
Robstown Labor Camp
Robstown Record
Santa Margarita Crossing
Sidbury House
Sidbury-Savage House
Sisters of the Incarnate Word
Site of Alta Vista Hotel
Site of Cheston L. Heath School
Site of Corpus Christi Lighthouse
Site of Kinney's Trading Post
Site of Old Salt Mill
Site of Santa Petronila Ranch
Site of Nueces Hotel
Snapka Drive Inn
Solomon Coles (1844- 1924) and Solomon Coles School
Stanley Kostoryz
St. John Baptist Church
St. John Lutheran Church
St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church
St. Paul Lutheran Church and School
Stout Jackson and the Carpa Theaters
Sunshine Cemetery
Tarpon Inn
Temple Beth El
The American G.I. Forum
The Corpus Christi Caller Times
The Julius Lichtenstein House
The Lone Star Fair
The Mercer Family on Mustang Island
Theodore Merchant Lawrence
The Ranchero
The Simon Gugenheim House
Thomas S. Parker
Travis Baptist Church
Two Civil War Hangings in Corpus Christi
U. S. Coast Guard on Mustang Island
Ward Island
William DeRyee
World War II Coastal Defenses at the Aransas Pass
Wynn Seale Junior High
1941 Corpus Christi Seawall
Agua Dulce
Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda
Antonio E. Garcia
Aransas Pass, C.S.A.
Artesian Park and Sulphur Well
Arthur Edward Spohn, M. D. and Spohn Hospital
Banquete Cemetery
Banquete, C.S.A.
Battle of Agua Dulce
Bishop
Broadway Bluff Improvement
Business Building (demolished)
Calallen
Captain Enrique Villarreal and Rincon del Oso Land Grant
Casa Blanca Land Grant
Cattle Drives from South Texas
Centennial House
Centennial House
Centennial Memorial Museum
Chapman Ranch
Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal
Clara Driscoll, The Driscoll Foundation and Driscoll Children's Hospital
Coastal Hide, Tallow and Packing Industries
Corpus Christi, 1861 - 1865
Corpus Christi and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Corpus Christi Cathedral
Corpus Christi College-Academy
Corpus Christi Fire Department
Duncan Cemetery
Early History of Port of Corpus Christi
Elihu Harrison Ropes
Eli Todd Merriman
Explosion of the Steamship Dayton
Felix von Blucher
First Baptist Church of Bishop
First Baptist Church of Corpus Christi
First Methodist Church of Corpus Christi
First Presbyterian Church of Corpus Christi
First United Methodist Church of Bishop
First United Methodist Church of Robstown
Flour Bluff
Flour Bluff Independent School District
Fort Lipantitlan
Fort Lipantitlan
Fort Lipantitlan
French-Galvan House
Galvan Ballroom
General W. W. Sterling
George H. Paul Building Site
George Washington Hockley
German POW Camp at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
Gold Star Court of Honor
Grande-Grossman House
Grossman-Graham House
Guaranty Title Company
Gutzon Borglum and the Corpus Christi Bayfront
Hebrew Rest Cemetery
Hector P. Garcia, M. D.
Henry Lawrence Kinney
Hilltop Tuberculosis Sanitorium
Hotel Brendle
Irishtown
Jalufka-Govatos House
Jefferson Davis Highway No. 16
John Dix
John Dunn, Jr. Homesite
Karankawa Indians
Kelsey Memorial Methodist Church (Iglesia Metodista Kelsey Memorial)
Kovner-Bobys Homestead (aka Merriman-Bobys House)
Louis de Planque
LULAC
Martha (Reagan) Rabb
Matthew Dunn
McCampbell House
Merriman House (Merriman-Bobys House)
Moravian Club of Nueces County
Moses Menger Elementary School
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Mustang Island
Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi
Nicholas Bluntzer
Nueces County
Nueces County
Nueces County Courthouse of 1914
Nuecestown
Nuecestown Cemetery
Nuecestown Raid
Nuecestown Schoolhouse
Old Bayview Cemetery
Old Bayview Cemetery
Old Saint Anthony's Catholic Church
Old St. Patrick's Church
Padre Island and Padre Nichols Balli
Palo Alto
Pat Dunn Ranch
Queen of the Sea
Rabbi Sidney A. Wolf
Richard King House
Ritz Theater
Robstown Labor Camp
Robstown Record
Santa Margarita Crossing
Sidbury House
Sidbury-Savage House
Sisters of the Incarnate Word
Site of Alta Vista Hotel
Site of Cheston L. Heath School
Site of Corpus Christi Lighthouse
Site of Kinney's Trading Post
Site of Old Salt Mill
Site of Santa Petronila Ranch
Site of Nueces Hotel
Snapka Drive Inn
Solomon Coles (1844- 1924) and Solomon Coles School
Stanley Kostoryz
St. John Baptist Church
St. John Lutheran Church
St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church
St. Paul Lutheran Church and School
Stout Jackson and the Carpa Theaters
Sunshine Cemetery
Tarpon Inn
Temple Beth El
The American G.I. Forum
The Corpus Christi Caller Times
The Julius Lichtenstein House
The Lone Star Fair
The Mercer Family on Mustang Island
Theodore Merchant Lawrence
The Ranchero
The Simon Gugenheim House
Thomas S. Parker
Travis Baptist Church
Two Civil War Hangings in Corpus Christi
U. S. Coast Guard on Mustang Island
Ward Island
William DeRyee
World War II Coastal Defenses at the Aransas Pass
Wynn Seale Junior High