Historical Markers of Texas

234 August C. and Julia Richter Mansion 1906 Houston Street A native of San Antonio, August C. Richter (1863-1940) moved to Laredo in 1888. He acquired full ownership of an early fixed price department store, ...

367 Benavides Brothers San Augustin Plaza, E side facing San Augustin Avenue Members of a prominent Laredo family, the three Benavides brothers were the descendants of Tomas Sanchez, who founded the city in 1755. Santos (1823-1891) ... 12387 Benavides-Herrera House 802 Grant St. A fine example of the vernacular Mexican structures in Laredo's San Agustín historic district, this house was built about 1879. Rancher Natividad ... 405 Biggio-Kowalski-De La Garza House 1620 Farragut, Laredo Chester C. Biggio, a railroad official and the city's first fire chief, had this home built in 1909 for his family. He died in 1923, and in 1938 ... 419 Bishop Peter Verdaguer in front of Bishops Chapel - northeast section of cemetery Laredo Catholic Cemetery U.S. 59 Born in the Cataluna region of Spain, the most Rev. Peter Verdaguer de Prat studied in the United States. He was ordained (1862) in San Francisco ... 15953 Bruni SH 359 This historic settlement was named for Antonio Mateo Bruni (1856-1931), a native of Bozzi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Bruni's parents died when he was ... 544 Bruni Plaza 900 Washington Street, Laredo When Juan Fernando de Palacios, Governor of Nuevo Santander, New Spain, designated Laredo as a villa in 1767, he laid out a central plaza as an integral ...

13507 Calvary Catholic Cemetery 3600 McPherson Avenue Laredo experienced substantial growth in the late 1800s and soon the city needed a new cemetery. The process of creating Laredo’s fourth camposanto, ... 704 Capitol, Republic of the Rio Grande 1000 Zaragoza Street on St. Augustin St. south side Federalists opposed to regime of Santa Anna in Mexico City were headed by Jesus Cardenas as president. Recruited aid in Texas, won victories in Mexico, ... 744 Casa Ortiz 915 Zaragoza St On King of Spain's grant to Don Jose Reyes Ortiz, merchant and go between for Mexico and Texas. Home to 5 Ortiz generations. Recorded Texas Historic ... 746 Casa Vidaurri NW corner Flores Ave. and Zaragoza St., W side of San Augustin Plaza. Also known as Santos Benavides House. Marker reported missing Jul. 1967. On grant from Spain. Built 1874 by Texas military leader Santos Benavides. Sold 1883 to Eulalio Benavides. Still owned by descendants. Recorded Texas ... 14164 Casa Zaragoza 702 Zaragoza St. 12359 City Cemetery 3200 N. Meadow Ave. The earliest burial grounds in Laredo were known as camposantos (Saints' Fields) by Spanish settlers. Laredo's first camposanto was probably the ... 874 City Hall and Market House N/A In the early 1880s several railroad lines were built into Laredo from both the United States and Mexico, resulting in a major economic boom for the ... 17940 Coal Mining in Las Minas: San Tomas Coal Field SH 255 (Laredo-Colombia Solidarity Bridge Rd.), 0.2 mi. W of FM 1472 Cannel coal was mined from the Santo Tomas coal field between 1881 and 1939 and several mining towns, collectively known as Las Minas, developed ...

1194 Deaf Smith behind maintenance building at Casa Blanca Municipal golf course 500 yards northeast site of the battlefied where Erastus (Deaf) Smith, Captain of scouts of the Republic of Texas, and 21 Texans on March 17, 1837, ... 22693 Dionicio Guerra Family Cemetery Los Ojuelos community, 2 mi. S of Mirando City on FM 649, east side of the road. Cemetery is southeast of the marker on private property. Dionicio Guerra Family Cemetery Established ca. 1878 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2000

1393 Education in Mirando City at door way of school, Panther Drive west side of town Mirando City was founded in 1921 by oilman O.W. Killam as the center of trade for a nearby oil field he discovered. Although a block of land on Main ... 12288 El Barrio Azteca Iturbide Street bridge on Zacate St., E of San Pablo Ave. One of the earliest residential neighborhoods in Laredo, this area was first divided into lots in the 1870s and 1880s. Residents worshiped at San ... 13570 El Paso de Jacinto Taylor Rd, on campus of Laredo Community College, behind the Lamar Bruni Vergara Science Center Throughout history, travelers sought natural fords that allowed safe passage across rivers and streams. Around 1746, Jacinto de Leon discovered such ... 18153 El Primer Congreso Mexicanista Saint Peter's Plaza In the late 19th and early 20th century, shifting racial hierarchies, large-scale property transfer, and agricultural industrialization led to an ...

1996 Fort McIntosh entrance to Laredo College, Washington Street entrance Established March 3, 1849, by troops of the 1st U.S. infantry from ringgold barracks under command of Lt. E. L. Viele. The star-shaped earthen fortress ... 1997 Fort McIntosh Barracks on administration building The last remaining of three brick barracks constructed in 1880 by the U.S. Army to quarter troops engaged in scouting and escort duty along the Rio ...

12529 Holding Institute (Laredo Seminary) 1102 Santa Maria Ave. The Women's Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and missionaries Annie Williams and Rebecca Toland, established the Laredo ...

2742 Jarvis Plaza 1301 Farragut, Laredo New York native Samuel Matthias Jarvis (1822-1893) received an engineering degree from Columbia University and joined General Zachary Taylor's army ... 18154 Jovita Idar Saint Peter's Plaza Born in Laredo, Texas, on September 7, 1885, Jovita Idar was a journalist, educator and activist on behalf of the Mexican-origin population in South ... 15800 Juan Francisco Farías Residence 409 San Bernardo Ave. Soldier and Laredo alcalde Jose Andres Farias and his wife Guadalupe Sanchez married at San Agustin Church in 1803 and had seven children; the oldest, ...

23977 La India Packing Company SW corner Marcella Avenue and Mier Street La India Packing Company is a family owned and operated supplier of herbs, spices, and Mexican chocolate. The company has served as an integral part ... 17129 Lala's Café 602 Main St. Ave. at corner of W. 5th St. LALA’S CAFE EDUARDA (LALA) BANDA WAS BORN NEAR SAN LUIS POTOSI, MEXICO, ON OCTOBER 13, 1910. SHE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES WITH HER PARENTS AND SIBLINGS ... 14030 Laredo Air Force Base 5210 Bullock Loop During World War I, Kelly Field (San Antonio), reached its peak training capacity and the U.S. Army built several auxiliary landing fields in South ... 3036 Laredo Election Riot, 1886 east side of square - on lawn Annual elections for city officials, held here since 1767, were followed by rioting in 1886. Citizens were divided among two rival parties. The Guaraches, ... 12289 Laredo Fire Department 912 Matamoros Road The first Laredo fire company was organized in 1883. It was known as the Gate City Volunteer Fire Department and initially was comprised of only ... 23775 Laredo Streetcar System Iturbide St. The introduction of the streetcar in Laredo in 1889 saw increased interconnectivity of the city’s residents and businesses, leading to population ... 12397 Laredo Telephone Exchange 1101 Zaragosa St. Telephone service came to Laredo in 1884, just eight years after Alexander Graham Bell obtained the first telephone patent. Housed here in the home ... 17323 Laredo's First International Bridge Pedestrian walkway near Turnstile The area surrounding the international bridge was used as a river crossing for centuries by Indian tribes because of its shallowness, and later by ... 13665 Laredo's Washington's Birthday Celebration 500 Flores Ave. In 1897, Laredo's local lodge of the Great Council of Texas of the Improved Order of Red Men decided to organize a celebration of George Washington's ... 12290 Leyendecker House 204 Flores St. John Z. Leyendecker, a German immigrant who settled in the Texas Hill Country in 1845, came to Laredo between 1848 and 1850. A prominent merchant, ... 16461 Los Ojuelos Los Ojuelos community, 2 mi. S of Mirando City on FM 649, east side of the road. For thousands of years, Los Ojuelos (The Springs) were a source of the precious south Texas commodity of water. Eugenio Gutiérrez received a Spanish ...

3854 Oliver Winfield Killam FM 649 at Mirando City P.O. south limits of city Discoverer of first commercial oil field in south Texas; founder of Mirando City, as base of operations. Born in Lincoln county, Mo.; graduated in ...

24296 Pan American Courts and Cafe marker pending marker pending 20160 Pvt. David Bennes Cantu Barkley Laredo Community College, Pvt. David B. Barkeley Cantu Veterans Memorial Chapel, Washington St. Marker is on E side of Ainsworth Rd. near Sheridan Rd. Born in Laredo on March 31, 1899, David Bennes Cantu Barkley was the son of Josef Barkley, a career Army man stationed at Fort McIntosh, and Antonia ...

16894 Radcliffe Killam in the front of the Radcliffe Killam Library RADCLIFFE KILLAM OLIVER WINFIELD “O.W.” KILLAM AND HARRIET SMITH KILLAM, THE PARENTS OF RADCLIFFE KILLAM, WERE BORN AND EDUCATED IN MISSOURI, AND ... 17422 Raymond and Tirza Martin High School 2002 San Bernardo Ave. In the 1930s, Laredo’s growing scholastic population dictated the need for a new high school, as students outgrew the campus built on Zaragoza Street ... 4230 Refugio Benavides Catholic Cemetery, Saunders Street cemetery block 21 northeast section A native of Laredo, Jose Del Refugio Benavides was a descendant of Tomas Sanchez, who founded the city in 1755. As a member of one of Laredo's most ... 4249 Republic of the Rio Grande East side St. Augustine Sq. on lawn In January 1840 Senor Antonio Canales and other Federalists met near Guerrero to found the Republic of the Rio Grande. Canales and friends were loyal ... 4271 Rio Grande and Eagle Pass Railroad (Pecos and Rio Grande Railroad) 12.1 miles northwest of Laredo on FM 1472 (Mines Road) (0.5 miles past Santa Isabel Creek) Alexander Cameron Hunt, former territorial governor of Colorado, built the Pecos and Rio Grande Railroad northwest from Laredo to the coal mining ...

4483 Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church N/A This congregation, the second Catholic church organized in Laredo, began in 1897 as an English speaking parish to serve non Spanish speaking families ... 5029 San Augustin Cathedral east side of St. Augustin Square - east side -- 13678 San Bernardo Avenue 2400 San Bernardo Ave. San Bernardo Avenue, which began as a commercial road in Laredo, became known as the San Antonio Highway by 1938, replacing the earlier route along ... 4589 Santos Benavides Calvary Catholic Cemetery, SE corner of Section 8, about 500 feet E of McPherson Road and 250 feet S of E. Saunders St./Business 59/Lloyd Bentsen Highway Santos Benavides, son of Jose Jesus and Marguerita Benavides and great-great grandson of Laredo founder Tomas Sanchez, was born in Laredo on November ... 4767 Site of Darwin Community SH 255 (Laredo-Colombia Solidarity Bridge Rd.), 0.2 mi. W of FM 1472. Marker reported missing Jan. 2011. Map dox approximate. Known since Spanish times, coal mining in this area of the Rio Grande above Laredo dates to the early 19th century. Coal was floated down river on ... 12441 St. Augustine Parochial School 201 San Agustin Ave. The arrival of the railroad in Laredo in 1881, along with the influx of exiles into the city after the Mexican Revolution, contributed to an increase ...

3037 The Laredo National Bank N/A Villa de San Agustin de Laredo, founded here by area rancher Tomas Sanchez in 1755, was an agrarian-based community for its first 125 years. The ... 12770 The Ramón Family 908 Grant St. The Ramón Family Engaged in much of Laredo's early history, the Ramón family occupied residential property at this site by 1869. Patriarch of the ... 5435 The Texas Mexican Railway 1200 Washington, Laredo Leading merchants in Corpus Christi began planning the Corpus Christi and Rio Grande Railroad in the 1850s to boost the south Gulf Coast as a center ...

15598 Villa De Laredo, Original Site of Laredo

5734 Webb County east side old Santa Maria Road at Del Mar and I-35 interchange Formed from Nueces county; created January 28, 1848, organized March 16, 1848. Named in honor of James Webb, 1792 - 1856, attorney general and secretary ...

5963 Zuniga House 902 Market Street, Laredo Roberto Zuniga moved to Laredo in 1916 from Monterrey, Mexico and established a custom brokerage business in 1918 with his brother Alfonso Zuniga. ...