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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

Nueces County Historical Markers 

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 157
Have - 147  Need - 10
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         Named for the Nueces River. The 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, more of 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 did on our first night there. Water Street Oyster and Sushi Bar are 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 robust historical commission and they usually add several markers each year, so every time 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 counsel 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 a large and sprawling region covering a large area 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 Park next to his house which was moved to the park. The text is slightly different, something that we have seen more of 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 always 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. 

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    15th August, 2020 -   So, I am just about to start a position as administrative director of freestanding emergency department (Robstown & Portland) this means we will be in the near future, moving from Round Rock, Texas to the Corpus Christi area. So the near future will be less about historical markers and more about getting settled but I am excited about being in a different area and being closer to these South Texas historical markers. When we were down for the interview and to work out where we might like to live, we captured some of the newer markers and a few of the older ones that we were still missing.
          On review my biggest question is about the Business Building that was demolished, I would love to add a picture for the sake of completeness but I have no physical address and have not been able to work out which building this was? 
          We still have some newer markers to catch and I would love to capture the Agua Dulce marker, it looks like we are about to have much more opportunity to do this. 

8th June, 2021 - We only picked up one additional marker that triggered this review. It is a controversial marker, the Jefferson Davis Highway marker. Jefferson Davis was of course a president of the Confederacy and it is now felt by a lot people that anything associated with the with the Confederacy should not be commemorated and in many counties these markers have been removed. This marker in Nueces County is in the middle of a four lane highway surrounded by rubbish and we had to look hard to find it, so while it is marking a spot I would not say it commenorating this dark period of American history. 
    We do have a new favorite restaurant in Corpus, Yardarm, its kind of old fashioned but the food is really good and its right on the water. We are really enjoying dining down here. 
           
9th September, 2022 - We went out one sunny Sunday mornday and captured many of the new markers. Nueces Historic Commission is very active and are continously looking for ways to document and commemorate their history and historical figures, For a smaller cemetery Bayview has many historical grave markers and still has one more to come. 
   I asked the Nueces County Historical Commission about Blue Star Memorial Highway marker but they don't know what happened to it. Ditto the Nueces County 18 x 28 subject marker, I think that one could be in the old courthouse but I think you'd have to be very brave to venture in there to look, unfortunately this neat old building is in a very bad state of repair. The Ritz Theater still doesn't have it's marker. 
1919 Storm 
1941 Corpus Christi Seawall 
1966 Farm Workers Rally and March
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
Blue Star Memorial Highway
Broadway Bluff Improvement
Business Building (demolished)

Calallen
Camp Scurry
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
Confederate Army Deserters Hanged in Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, 1861 - 1865
Corpus Christi and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Corpus Christi Cathedral

Corpus Christi College-Academy
Corpus Christi Fire Department
Corpus Christi Longshoremen's Union Locals
Del Mar College
​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
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​Fort Lipantitlan
French-Galvan House
Galvan Ballroom

General W. W. Sterling 
George H. Paul Building Site
George Owens
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
James D​owning
Jefferson Davis Highway No. 16
John Bernard Murphy 
John Dix
Jovita Gonzalez de Mireles

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 
Matthew Nolan
McCampbell House
Merriman House (Merriman-Bobys House) 
Moravian Club of Nueces County
Moses Menger Elementary School
Mother Margaret Mary Healy Murphy
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
Queen of the Sea
Rabbi Sidney A. Wolf

Restland Memory Park
Reuben Holbein

Richard and Minerva King House
Ritz Theater
Robstown Labor Camp
Robstown Record
Robstown's Vegetable Growing and Railroad Shipping History
Rooseveit-Camacho Meeting

​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 Kinney's Trading Post
Site of Old Salt Mill 
Site of Santa Petronila Ranch

Site of the Corpus Christi Lighthouse
​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 John Dunn, Jr. Homesite 
The Julius Lichtenstein House
The Lone Star Fair 
​The Mercer Family on Mustang Island
The Pat Dunn Ranch
Theodore Merchant Lawrence
The Ranchero
The Simon Gugenheim House
Thomas S. Parker
Travis Baptist Church
U. S.  Coast Guard on Mustang Island
USS Lexington
Ward Island 
William DeRyee
William Henderson Maltby
World War II Coastal Defenses at the Aransas Pass
Wynn Seale Junior High 
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  • 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
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  • Fairview Cemetery
  • Leon County Courthouse
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Judge H.T. Brown
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  • Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps
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