Nueces County Historical Markers
NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 152
Have - 136 Need - 16
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 very 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.
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 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.
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.
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. JefferDavis was of course a presdent of the Confederacy and it is now felt by a lot people the anyway 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 periof of American history.
We do have a new favorite resturant 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.
We do have a new favorite resturant 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.
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
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
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 Downing
Jefferson Davis Highway No. 16
John Bernard Murphy
John Dix
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
Richard and Minerva King House
Ritz Theater
Robstown Labor Camp
Robstown Record
Robstown's Vegetable Growing and Railroad Shipping History
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
Ward Island
William DeRyee
William Henderson Maltby
World War II Coastal Defenses at the Aransas Pass
Wynn Seale Junior High