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9373 Ahrenbeck-Urban Home corner of 13th St. & Lafayette, Hempstead This two-story galleried Greek Revival residence was built about 1872 by German native William Ahrenbeck (1828-1888). A prominent area civic leader ...

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13777 Brookshire Family Cemetery 1 mi. S of IH-10 to 1809 FM 359 S, then E on private road, via left fork Brookshire Family Cemetery Established c. 1850 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004

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8121 Camp Site Of the Texas Army 1.5 miles south of Hempsted on SH 159 Five miles to the southeast to the camp site of the Texas Army March 31 to April 13, 1836 when it crossed the Brazos on the steamboat Yellow Stone ... 8113 Captain Alfred H. Wyly Cemetery at Hempsted Captain Alfred H. Wyly who commanded a volunteer company at the Battle of San Jacinto April 21, 1836. Died at Hempsted May 11, 1867. 9375 Captain Nathen Brookshire corner of 5th & Velasco, Brookshire Captain Nathen Brookshire. Participated in the storming and capture of Bexar, December 5th to 10th,1835. A captain in the Texas Army, 1836. Born ... 9376 Clear Creek Confederate War Camps US 290, 3.5 mi. East of Hempstead Although no physical evidence has been found of the Confederate camp sites in this area, historical accounts have established that this part of Waller ...

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9379 Donigan House Waller County Historical Museum. NE corner 5th and Cooper streets. A native of Turkey, Paul M. Donigan (1862-1930) came to the United States about 1890 to attend medical school. The presence of relatives in this ...

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9381 Fields Store Cemetery West of Fields Store on Fields Store Cemetery Rd. off of FM 1488, 15 mi. east of Hempstead Established during Reconstruction period on land given by D. H. Fields, local merchant for whom community and cemetery were named, and by J. W. Day, ... 9382 Field's Store Community Intersection of FM 1488 and FM 362, Field's Store, 15 mi. east of Hempstead Settlers began arriving in this vicinity prior to the Civil War. In the early 1870s Druey Holland Field (1809-72) and his wife Caroline (Perry) (1837-76) ... 9383 First Methodist Church of Brookshire 707 Cooper St., Brookshire This church traces its origin to the establishment of the Union Chapel Methodist church by the Rev. Churchill Fulshear in the former community of ... 14418 First United Methodist Church of Hempstead 1010 Seventh St. Methodism in Hempstead began circa 1857, shortly after the Hempstead Town Company was founded in December of 1856 to sell lots in the new town. Church ... 11712 First United Methodist Church of Waller 1218 Smith St. The Waller Methodist Episcopal Church, South, traces its history to 1888, the year it was first mentioned in regional Methodist conference records. ... 8109 Former Waller County Post Offices Courthouse Square in Hempsted Before the age of modern communication, the postal system was a vital link between isolated rural settlements. Early Waller County post offices were ... 9377 Francis Jarvis Cooke Salem Cemetery, FM 1736, 1 mi.W of SH 6, 5 mi. N, Hempstead Francis Jarvis Cooke. A San Jacinto veteran born in North Carolina July 13, 1816, died November 11, 1903. His wife Emily Stockton Cooke, born in ... 9385 Frey Cemetery From Brookshire, take FM 362 north to Richard Frey Rd., then east to Blinka Rd, go north 1.5 mi. to Frey Cemetery Rd., Brookshire vicinity John Frey, born Johannes Frei in 1857 in Switzerland, came to America in 1877. He settled in Austin County, Texas, where he married German immigrant ... 9384 Frey-Benignus House From Brookshire take FM 362 north to Richard Frey, then west to Blinka Rd, then north 1 mile, Brookshire vicinity Swiss immigrant John Frey (1857-1925) and his German-born wife Mary (1862-1933) moved to Waller County in late 1889. They built a small two-room ... 17071 FSA Farms at Prairie View (undertold) marker pending marker pending

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9380 Gen. George and Libbie Custer Campsite 2 mi.E of Hempstead on FM 1488, then .25 mi. S on Wyatt Chapel Rd., Hempstead vicinity Soon after the Civil War General George Armstrong Custer and his cavalry unit arrived in Texas as part of a large U.S. force sent to establish order ... 9386 Groce Family Plantations Approx. 3.5 miles east of Hempstead on US 290, near Liendo Plantation, Hempstead vicinity Pioneers in this Texas area. Had early cotton gin and ferry. Founder of family was Jared E. Groce (1782-1836), who came to Texas in 1822. His large ...

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11379 Heinrich Konrad Karl Leverkuhn Leverkuhn Family Cemetery, Hegar community, between Hegar and Macedonia School roads, north of Magnolia Road (July 22, 1842 -- November 11, 1915) German-born Heinrich Leverkuhn cane to Texas in 1857 and was a foragemaster for the Confederate army during ... 9389 Hempstead High School Hempstead ISD Central Administration Building, E side 13th St. (SH 159) between Groce and Kosse streets When the town of Hempstead was founded in 1856, a centrally located school site was platted; however, no school building was erected until after ... 9388 Hempstead, C.S.A. Waller County Courthouse grounds, SH 6 and 12th St. Major Civil War center in Texas with railroad, troop training, manufacturing, and supply activity. Training camps Groce and Hebert kept troops in ... 9390 Highland Home School 12.2 miles north of Brookshire on FM 362, then west for 2 miles on Monaville Rd. (Richard Frey), then north for two miles on Cochran Rd. to Purvis Rd., Brookshire vicinity A small white frame schoolhouse, erected here in the 1890s, served families in this rural area until 1929. Initially called Boyd School for D. R. ...

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13721 In This Vicinity_Plantation of Charles Donoho Off FM 359 on private property In this vicinity on the plantation of Charles Donoho the Texas Army under General Sam Houston encamped April 14-15, 1836 before beginning its march ... 9374 Isaac Best FM 1458, 0.7 mi. W of Pattison (1774-1837> One of the "Old 300" settlers of Stephen F. Austin's colony, Isaac Best spent his early life in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, where he built ...

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17072 Jacob E. Freeman Sandra Bland Pkwy. (University Dr./FM 1098), east side of the street between Hawkins St. and US 290 In response to the political, social and economic turmoil in Texas and the South after the Civil War, the federal government enacted the Reconstruction ... 8105 James Tarrant Pattison Homesite FM 359, in Pattison across from Royal Early Childhood Center Located at important junction of Atascosito Road and the San Felipe Trail, this homesite was established by James Tarrant and Sarah Smith Pattison ... 8117 Judge Edwin Waller 2 miles west of Pattison on FM 1458 (March 16, 1800 -- January 3, 1881) Virginia native Edwin Waller migrated to Texas from Missouri in 1831 as part of Stephen F. Austin's third colony. ...

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9391 Kellner Townsite Just west of US 90 and FM 1489 intersection, Brookshire (in NE part, Stephen F. Austin grant to Wm. Cooper) First town in area. Platted 1893 by John G. Kellner (1846-1933), donor, Missouri, Kansas & Texas ...

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9396 Liendo 5 mi. N of Hempstead on FM 1488 to Wycliff Chapel Rd. A plantation home built in 1853 by Leonard W. Groce. The scene for many years of lavish Southern hospitality. Purchased March 4, 1873, by Dr. Edmund ... 9395 Liendo Plantation 5 mi. N of Hempstead on FM 1488 to Wycliff Chapel Rd. 1853 - named for Spanish grantee Justo Leindo, first to own this land. Mansion built by Leonard W. Groce, who surrounded it with model plantation ...

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9397 Macedonia Methodist Church 12 mi. NE of Waller on Macedonia Rd. Organized in 1892 by the Rev. W. C. Bracewell, circuit rider. Early services were held in McPherson School. In 1893 first church was built, by men ... 9392 Madison "Matt" "Kilpatrick" 25th St. and Austin Branch Rd., Hempstead (1892 - Dec. 1, 1910) Came to Waller County as a runaway slave from Alabama before Civil War. Married Betty Bradford, of Woodard Plantation, Hempstead; ... 24419 Mary E.V. Edwards Hunter (Undertold) marker pending marker pending 11376 Monaville Independent School District Waller County Monaville Annex / Monaville Veterans Memorial Building Monaville, Aurora, and Bracy Island schools opened in this area during the last quarter of the 19th century when many rural schools were established ...

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9378 Norris Wright Cuney FM 529, 4 mi. W of FM 529/FM 359 inter., 14.8 mi. S of Hempstead (May 12, 1846 - March 3, 1898) Born in the slave quarters of Sunnyside Plantation (3.2 mi.SE), Cuney displayed such intelligence as a boy that in ...

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11378 Old Salem Cemetery FM 1736, one mile west of SH 5, 5 miles north of Hempsted This burial ground originally served the family of T.B. White. His wife Elizabeth (d. 1857) and her father Henry Kirby (d. 1854) are interred here. ...

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8106 Pine Island Baptist Church 4 miles east of Hempsted on 290, then south on Pine Island to junction with Brumlow Organized in the Hopewell schoolhouse, Aug. 13, 1888, with 13 members. Named for a small grove of pine trees nearby. This building erected in 19 ... 8116 Plantation Home of Edwin Waller 1800--1883 Business 290 on property of Marshall Ford car dealership Plantation Home of Edwin Waller (1800-1883). Member of the consultation in 1835. Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. First mayor of ... 8110 Prairie View A&M University University campus, 1 mile north of US 290 on FM 1098 Authorized by the Texas legislature in 1876, the "Agricultural and Mechanical College for Colored Youth" was Texas' second state-supported institution ...

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8107 Reid's Prairie Baptist Church FM 362 15 miles north of Waller Organized Aug 24, 1890 with 17 members. Sanctuary built, 1895 on Navasota Stage Road.

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8114 Shiloh Baptist Church 2.5 miles north of Prairie View on FM 1098 On Sept. 21, 1871, at nearby Kirby Chapel Methodist Church, thirteen people with letters of transfer from other congregations banded together as ... 8112 Shiloh Cemetery 2.5 miles north of Prairie View on FM 1098 In 1881 Thomas Armer deeded land in the Shiloh Community for a Baptist church. He sold an adjacent acre to the church for this cemetery in 1883, ... 9387 Site of Groce's Ferry FM 1887, 3 miles south of Hempstead, west side of the road south of Bosque Road intersection Established across the Brazos in 1822 (the river has since changed its course) by Jared E. Groce (1782-1836). Near here the Texas Army camped from ... 8111 Site of St. Mary's Catholic Church and Cemetery 2 miles south of Waller on FM 362 The first of many Czech immigrants to settle this area purchased from Galveston developer E.H. Fordtran in 1891. Four Czech families founded St. ... 8119 South Texas Baptist College Waller High School, Waller and Smith Streets An ambitious institution chartered by Baptists who formed South Texas Educational Conference about 1895 and in 1898 secured campus site from a local ... 8120 Springer-Macedonia Cemetery 10 miles north of Hockley on Springer Cemetery Road The pioneer Springer family donated the original two acres of this graveyard and gave their name to the community in this area and to a school, also ... 8108 St. Francis Episcopal Church 300 Dooley St. ---- 11377 Stacye Ann Marlin Morgan Pattison Cemetery; 1 mile north of Pattison on FM 359 (Feb. 14, 1819 -- March 23, 1894) Survivor of the famous Morgan Massacre; daughter of settler James Marlin, In Falls County, Jan., 1, 1839, Indians ...

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8122 Texas' First Narrow Gauge Railway Depot corner of Avenue G and Second Street --

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8123 Union Army P.O.W. Cemetery Austin Branch Road 2.5 miles west of its intesection wiht 25th Street Several Confederate military facilities were positioned near Hempsted (2.5 mi. w), an important railroad junction, during the Civil War. Camp Groce ...

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15276 Wade Cemetery west of FM 359 on private property This burial ground was established in 1846 by William Wade, a wealthy plantation owner from Mississippi who came to Texas by the 1820s. He purchased ... 8124 Waller 1118 Farr Street in Waller Extension of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad here about 1857 provided the means for a growing number of settlers in this area to market their ... 8118 Waller County Waller County Courthouse grounds, E side between Austin and Wilkins streets Created from Austin and Grimes counties, April 28, and organized Aug. 16, 1873. Named for Edwin Waller (1800-1861), a signer of the Texas Declaration ... 16114 Waller County 1 mi. N. of Hempstead, on US Hwy 290/SH 20q Waller County, created April 28, 1873, organized August 16, 1873. Named in honor of Edwin Waller, 1800-1881, member of the consultation in 1835, ... 8115 Wyatt Chapel Community Cemetery 2 miles north of Prairie View on FM 1098, between Pond Creek and Cameron Rd. This cemetery is located on land that was originally part of Jared E. Kirby's Alta Vista Plantation. According to oral tradition, the Kirby family ...