St. Paul's Epsicopal Church

San Antonio, TX

This Neo-Classical Revival residence was completed in 1909 for Gen. John Lapham Bullis, a New Yorker who spent much of his career on the Southwestern frontier. In 1873 Bullis took command of a company of Seminole Scouts whose skill at tracking raiders on the Texas border drew national attention. He lived in the house, designed by San Antonio architect Harvey Page, until his death in 1911; nearby Camp Bullis bears his name.

San Antonio, TX

When a Presbyterian and a Methodist minister held San Antonio's first Protestant service in 1844, they opened a new chapter in a long-Catholic city. Organized in 1846, this congregation built the city's first Protestant church house of adobe, weathered decline, a Civil War split from the national church, and a storm that toppled its early building. Successive sanctuaries followed, culminating in the 1910 Gothic Revival structure designed by noted architect Atlee B. Ayres, from which pioneering radio broadcasts of services would later air.

San Antonio, TX

North Carolina-born Lee Hall came to Texas in 1869 and won national fame as a frontier lawman, serving as a Grayson County marshal and then in the Texas Rangers' Frontier Battalion from 1876 to 1880, pursuing notorious outlaws like Sam Bass and John Wesley Hardin and quelling the Taylor-Sutton feud. Decades later he was cited for gallantry in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War era.

San Antonio, TX

This state marker honors Simona Smith Fisk, born in San Antonio in 1829 as a daughter of Erastus "Deaf" Smith, the celebrated scout whose reconnaissance served Sam Houston's army during the Texas Revolution. She married James Nathaniel Fisk and lived until 1890, her grave marked by the State of Texas in 1936. Her life spanned the era of Texas independence, statehood, and the Civil War.