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Harlingen, TX

In 1929 grocer Howard E. Butt moved his growing business's headquarters to Harlingen, and the following year he and his wife Mary bought this newly built house from John and Ruth Townsend. Through the 1930s his H.E.B. Grocery expanded to more than 28 stores across the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas, while the couple became known for philanthropy and civic work. The Italian Renaissance-style home, marked by Palladian windows and spiral entry columns, was theirs until 1943.

Port Lavaca, TX

Born in Tolosa, Texas, in 1901, Howard G. Hartzog earned degrees from Baylor and George Washington University and even played a season with the New York Giants before returning to practice law in Port Lavaca. Elected state representative in 1933, he spent fourteen years writing bills on education, vehicle safety, and water conservation, then served seventeen years as Calhoun County judge across six terms. His tenure saw the Lavaca Bay Causeway, the Matagorda Ship Channel, a new library, an airport, and hospital expansions as the county boomed in mid-century.

Calvert, TX

Calvert boomed as a cotton and railroad town in the late 1800s, and its homes reflected the era's taste for exuberant Victorian styling. In 1897 Mrs. S. M. Howard built this Eastlake-style cottage, a year after buying the property from her sister-in-law, giving it fishscale shingles, a wide gingerbread veranda, and finely detailed interior woodwork. The house stayed in the Howard family into the 1940s and typifies Calvert at the turn of the century.

Rio Grande City, TX

Built in 1877 from lumber salvaged off a sunken steamboat, with mesquite-block floors and handmade brick, this Rio Grande City house was the home and business of John Peter Kelsey, a New Yorker who came to the border in 1848 to become a Starr County judge and major landowner. Its very timbers speak to the steamboat commerce that once moved goods up the Rio Grande. Later owners carried the property into the twentieth century, and it took the name of Howard L. Bass, who acquired it in 1954.

Brownwood, TX

Howard Payne College grew out of an 1889 resolution by the Pecan Valley Baptist Association to found a college of its own, with Brownwood chosen as the site. Named for benefactor Edward Howard Payne, the school opened in September 1890—classes meeting in a hall as the cornerstone of its main building was laid the same day. It absorbed the neighboring Daniel Baker College in 1953 and reached university status in 1974.

Tionesta Township, PA · est. 2001

Howard Zahniser, who made Tionesta his hometown, was the principal architect of the Wilderness Act of 1964. As executive director of The Wilderness Society and editor of its journal, he drafted and championed the legislation through years of political struggle, writing the law's memorable definition of wilderness as a place 'where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.' He died just months before President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill into law.

Henderson, TX

Brothers David and James Howard, settlers from Richmond, Virginia, built Rusk County's first brick home here in 1855, molding the bricks on site with a mud mill and later a patented machine and kiln. Their bricks went into the old courthouse and much of the town's later construction. Texas statesman Sam Houston, a cousin of David Howard's wife, was a frequent early guest.

Sheffield, TX

Howard's Well was one of the few reliable water sources on the brutal San Antonio–El Paso road, rediscovered by ex-Texas Ranger Richard A. Howard during John Coffee Hays's 1848 expedition to map a wagon route west. Forty-niners bound for California gold, mail lines, and army surveyors all watered here across the mid-19th century. It was also a crossroads of conflict: in 1872 Comanches and Kiowas ambushed a wagon train nearby, a raid that hardened federal Indian policy.

Van Alstyne, TX

Chartered in 1875 in the frontier community of Farmington, this Masonic lodge followed its members to Howe when the railroad bypassed the older settlement in 1887. Its first hall rose above the town's early Methodist chapel, a common pairing of sacred and civic life on the Texas frontier. Over the decades it absorbed a neighboring lodge and drew in the veterans and civic leaders who shaped Grayson County.

Newton, TX

James William and Louisa Cheshire Howell brought their family from Alabama in 1872, and their kin bought up adjoining land until the settlement of Howell earned a post office in 1889. Son Marmaduke is credited with introducing terrace farming to Texas in 1882, a soil-saving practice on the region's rolling land. A one-acre cemetery was set aside in 1876 — its oldest marked grave a Howell grandchild who died in 1875 — and later deeded to the family's descendants.

McKinney, TX

The Howell House stands on land granted in 1845 to Edward Bradley, a member of the Peters Colony that drew settlers into North Texas. His daughter Mary Ann inherited the property, and her husband, merchant Daniel Howell, built the first part of this home in 1861-62 — much of its cypress lumber hauled by wagon all the way from Jefferson. Four generations of the family occupied and enlarged the house over the years.

Texarkana, TX

Howell W. Runnels came to the Republic of Texas in 1842 and served in the state legislature in the late 1850s, building this home around 1874 with an open central hall and wide verandas. His wife, the former Martha Adams, served as Texas's first lady during the term of her brother-in-law, Governor Hardin R. Runnels. The house reflects the standing of a prominent political family in early Texarkana.

Waco, TX

This cabin was raised in 1858 from hand-hewn, saw-notched native yellow pine on land patented in Rusk County to Matilda Hoyle around 1853. After 1880 it long belonged to the Snelgrove family, passing through Eli Benjamin and Julia Kilgore Snelgrove and their son John. In 1955 it was purchased, moved to Waco, and restored by local historian Roger N. Conger.

Hubbard, TX

Hubbard was founded in 1881 as a shipping center and supply point on the St. Louis and Southwestern Railway. It took its name from Richard B. Hubbard, a Civil War colonel of the 22nd Texas Infantry who became governor of Texas and later U.S. minister to Japan. A banking and market town, it was also known for its mineral waters.

Bastrop, TX

This home was built in 1890 by Robert W. Hubbard, a Confederate veteran remembered for having fought in one of the last engagements of the Civil War. It later passed to a family descendant and was recognized as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964. The house stands as a tangible link between the postwar generation and the conflict that shaped their lives.

Hubbard, TX

Founded in 1881, the same year the town rose, the Hubbard City News grew through mergers with rival papers and decades of family ownership to become a leading voice in central Texas. Brothers who had once set type for the paper went on to lead and own it, and it survived until a 1973 tornado destroyed its office. The paper was sold to a Mexia publisher in 1969.

Lindale, TX

This hilltop once overlooked the East Texas plantation that Richard B. Hubbard and Serena Carter established after arriving from Georgia in 1854, working 720 acres with 44 enslaved people. Their son, Richard Bennett Hubbard—a Harvard-trained lawyer who served in the Confederate army and later as governor of Texas—buried twin daughters here in 1863. Family members and, marked with ironstone, enslaved people lie in this plot, while the governor himself rests in Tyler's Oakwood Cemetery after a career that included service as U.S. Minister to Japan.

Hubbard, TX

Rich farmland, a railway, and hot mineral springs drew settlers to Hubbard, and by 1911 the growing town voted to tax itself for a public school system. The architectural firm of Field and Clarkson designed the imposing two-story brick and limestone building, which opened in 1914 in a prairie style touched with rural Georgian influences. It served as Hubbard's only high school until 1978 and was later rescued by the community as a center for museums, a library, and the Tris Speaker Sports Museum.

New Boston, TX

Built in 1904 for Robert M. Hubbard and designed by architect Bayard Witt, this exuberant Victorian home crowned with eight irregular gables and leaded glass hosted statesmen and leading figures of Texas society. Hubbard himself became a public servant of consequence: named to the Texas Highway Commission in 1918 by Governor W. P. Hobby, he chaired it until 1925 and pushed to raise the highway department's standards during the automobile age's crucial early years.

Torch Lake Township, MI

This honor roll records the men and women of Hubbell and Tamarack City who served in the armed forces. These small Keweenaw copper-country communities, built around mining, sent their sons to the nation's wars and remembered them on this shared roll. The marker names no single conflict, honoring service across the generations.

Ashley, PA · est. 2017

Rising over the anthracite fields of Luzerne County, the Huber Coal Breaker was built by the Glen Alden Coal Company in 1939 to crush, sort, and clean up to 7,000 tons of hard coal a day. It was among the first to use Menzies cones to separate coal from rock and an aerial tramway to haul off waste, and its product was famously dyed to market Glen Alden's trademarked "Blue Coal." When anthracite demand faded, the breaker shut down in 1976 and was demolished in 2014, closing a chapter in the region that once heated much of the nation.

Gainesville, TX

Born in Woodbine in 1892, Hubert H. Moss trained as a teacher, served in World War I, and returned to become a chemistry professor at the new Gainesville Junior College and a trusted student advisor. From 1946 until his death in 1952 he was Cooke County school superintendent, and as chamber of commerce president he campaigned for a reservoir to secure the city's water. Gainesville completed Hubert H. Moss Lake in 1966 on the very site he had recommended.

Hungerford, TX

This burial ground traces to 1851, when the family of Joel and Rachel Hudgins began using it, though the land's story reaches back to an 1824 grant. Rachel had already outlived one husband and buried children before marrying Joel, a widower, in 1847; of their thirteen children together, only six reached adulthood—a stark measure of frontier mortality. Joel served as a civic leader and founded a local school, and generations of descendants have continued to tend the cemetery into modern times.

Jefferson, TX

Built between 1855 and 1867 by William P. Hudgins in the thriving riverport of Jefferson, this house with its 13-foot ceilings and wide-board floors passed through several owners before W. L. and Mattie A. Blake, respected teachers at the Jefferson Central (Negro) School, purchased it in 1897 and kept it in their family for six decades. Its later preservation ensured the survival of a rare antebellum-era home tied to Black educators of the post-emancipation South.

Lakeway, TX

Wiley Hudson gave his name to this bend of the Colorado River when he settled his family here in 1854, one of a handful of households scratching out a life among the cedar and live oaks. Neighbors forded the river to grind corn at Anderson mill and to visit hamlets with names like Round Mountain and Nameless, and during the Civil War the Hudson men took up arms for the Confederacy. The old rural world vanished when Mansfield Dam was completed in the 1940s and Lake Travis flooded half the tract, forcing even the cemetery to be moved and turning ranchland into lakeside subdivisions.

Kennedale, TX

When John and Winnie Hudson's young daughter Ary Mae died in 1878, her grave became the first on the family's Tarrant County land, soon joined by her twin sister, reinterred from a distant county to rest beside her. In 1892 the Hudsons deeded three acres for a community cemetery, and by 1996 more than five hundred graves recorded the pioneers of the surrounding countryside. Community funds organized across the 20th century have kept the ground tended.

Sierra Blanca, TX

Carved from El Paso County and organized in 1917, Hudspeth County took its name from Claude Benton Hudspeth, a native Texan born in 1877 who rose from large ranching interests to serve in the Texas Legislature and the U.S. Congress. Sierra Blanca became its county seat.

Sierra Blanca, TX

Built in 1917 in the far West Texas town of Sierra Blanca, this building is distinguished as the only adobe county courthouse in the state. Its earthen construction reflects the materials and traditions of the arid borderlands where it stands. It remains the seat of government for sprawling, sparsely settled Hudspeth County.

Leon Valley, TX

Settlement here began in 1858 when Joseph Huebner, an Austrian immigrant and San Antonio businessman, bought land and built limestone structures along the creek that still bears his name. He opened a stagecoach stop on the San Antonio–to–Bandera line, offering blacksmithing, fresh stock, and shelter to travelers stranded by the flooded creek. In 1930 the property passed to Judge John F. Onion and his wife Harriet, and grassroots preservation later saved the homestead as a natural and educational site.

Hueco, TX

Hueco Tanks, whose natural rock basins trapped precious rainwater, was one of the most important watering places in the Southwest, used by Native peoples, emigrants, and travelers alike. Near here the Apache repeatedly contested passage through their country. From 1858 to 1861 the site served as a station on the Southern Overland Mail line linking St. Louis and San Francisco.

Houston, TX

When federal courts ordered Houston's schools to integrate in 1970, the district tried to sidestep real desegregation by counting its growing Mexican-American population as legally "white" — pairing them with Black students while leaving Anglo schools untouched. In protest, the Mexican-American community launched a two-week boycott and opened twenty-one "huelga" (strike) schools, staffed by certified teachers and University of Houston volunteers, that taught core subjects alongside a proud Mexican-American identity. Roughly four thousand students enrolled before the boycott ended on September 16.

Alvord, TX

In 1874, during one of the last Indian raids in Wise County, tragedy struck a newly arrived settler family. While C. W. Huff and his son worked a remote part of their land, raiders killed Mrs. Huff and her daughters Palestine and Molly. Neighbors buried the victims in a wagon bed, and in 1879 Huff donated the land around the grave for a cemetery.

Kaufman, TX

This Kaufman home was built in 1889 by W.L. Huff and bought in 1892 by Dr. J.W. Park, a Texas-born physician. Because doctors were scarce, Park was licensed in 1877 and practiced for two years in Egypt, Texas, before returning to earn his degree at Louisville Medical College in 1880. Settling in Kaufman, he practiced until the day before his death in 1941, raising six children across two marriages.

Reno, NV

When Granville W. Huffaker drove 500 head of cattle into the Truckee Meadows in 1858, the valley's main settlers were Mormons; he established his ranch the following year just as the Comstock Lode focused new attention on the region. Through the 1860s Huffaker's grew into a bustling stage stop and community center, with a stage line, post office, and an 1868 schoolhouse, hosting dances, horse races, and even a literary society. In 1875 the "Bonanza Kings" completed their great lumber flume from the Tahoe basin to a nearby terminus, where the Virginia and Truckee Railroad built a depot and spur to transfer the timber.

Valley Spring, TX

When James Jackson Larremore led his family to the Texas Hill Country in 1853, Llano County was raw frontier along the Llano River. His daughter Martha married Civil War veteran James S. Huffman, who acquired 300 acres running from Smoothin' Iron Mountain past Cold Creek, and as settlers put down roots they needed a place to bury their dead. The first recorded grave dates to 1884, and by 1917 the family formally dedicated the ground as Huffman Cemetery, tending it across the century until forming an association in 1980.

Austin, TX

Built in 1886 in East Austin's Robertson Hill neighborhood, this Victorian home was constructed for Hugh B. Hancock, a successful Black businessman during the Reconstruction and Gilded Age era. It later passed to a German-born railroad engineer's family, who kept it until 1959, and was moved to its present site in 1979. It carries a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark designation.

Liberty, TX

Tennessee-born Hugh B. Johnston helped govern the Texas frontier at the birth of a nation, serving as the first alcalde of the Liberty municipality in 1831. As a delegate to the 1835 Consultation and later a member of the Republic of Texas Congress, he was among the officeholders who steered Texas from a Mexican province through revolution and into independent statehood before his death in 1850.

Elizabeth City, NC

Hugh Cale served in the North Carolina legislature during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction years, winning seats between 1876 and 1891. In 1891 he sponsored the bill that created the state-supported school for Black teachers that grew into today's Elizabeth City State University. His grave lies about six-tenths of a mile west of this marker.

Baltimore, MD

Judge Hugh Lennox Bond was a Baltimore jurist who stood firmly for the Union and for emancipation during the Civil War era. Later, presiding over federal cases against the Ku Klux Klan, he handed down sentences so severe that he became known as "the curse of the K.K.K."

Keokuk, IA

Backed by local businessmen, engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper built the great dam and powerhouse across the Mississippi at Keokuk between 1910 and 1913. On completion it was among the largest hydroelectric projects in the world, drawing on the river's power to light homes and drive industry across the tri-state region.

Anchorage, AK

Captain Hugh M. Elmendorf (1895–1933) was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer and pioneering high-altitude pursuit pilot, remembered for pushing aircraft to 30,000 feet in 1930 when such altitudes tested the limits of men and machines. He died in a test-flight crash in 1933, and this monument, dedicated in 1959, honors his contribution to the advance of military aviation — the namesake of Elmendorf Air Force Base.

Orange, TX

Hugh Ochiltree left North Carolina for Texas in 1840, read law under his prominent cousin, and volunteered for the Mexican War, fighting at the Battle of Monterrey. Settling at Sabine Pass and then at Madison—today's Orange—he built a mercantile and cotton-commission business and championed deep-water ports on the Sabine and Neches rivers. He served as the town's first postmaster, county commissioner, county clerk, and, during the Civil War, provost marshal of Orange.

Lampasas County, TX

These springs bear the name of Moses Hughes, remembered as the first settler in this part of Lampasas County in 1853. Tradition holds that his wife regained her health by taking the mineral waters here. Their arrival helped open the region to settlement in the years just before the Civil War.

Stoneham, TX

The family of Jefferson Edmond Hughey settled a 260-acre homestead in this part of Grimes County by 1859. They laid out a family cemetery whose earliest marked grave, that of Hughey's mother-in-law Mary Ann Garmany Boozer, dates to 1876, and built a nearby chapel that doubled as the community schoolhouse. The land stayed in Hughey hands until 1989, and the burial ground—home to Confederate veterans' graves—still marks the region's earliest settlers.

Willow City, TX

In 1902 Jacob Gold, Jr. deeded this Hill Country land to his daughter Anna and her husband Hugo Crenwelge, and three years later the couple raised a sturdy home from limestone quarried right nearby. Its hand-cut ashlar blocks, two-level gallery, and jig-sawn trim are hallmarks of the German-Texan building tradition that shaped Gillespie County. The house stayed in the family for six decades, a lasting emblem of immigrant farm life on the Texas frontier.

Seguin, TX

When Texas Lutheran College relocated to Seguin in 1929, it brought with it Hugo and Georgia Gibson, a scholarly couple who would shape the young institution for decades. Hugo, trained in theology and classical Greek, led the foreign languages department and founded the college's celebrated a cappella choir; Georgia, holding a master's from Columbia, served as Dean of Women and taught mathematics. The pair, instrumental in winning the college's accreditation, built this frame house on Erkel Avenue in 1934 and lived here until Hugo's death in 1963.

Houston, TX

Houston architect Hugo Neuhaus designed this 1950 house for himself as a showcase of the International style, all horizontal planes of brick and glass merging indoor rooms with a plunge pool and terraced gardens. Trained at Yale and Harvard under European modernists Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Neuhaus went on to serve as local associate to Philip Johnson, a link that tied his work directly to Mies van der Rohe. His own home became a celebrated emblem of Houston's embrace of modern design.

Lampasas, TX

Built of native limestone and cedar in New England colonial style between 1860 and 1872, this Lampasas cottage was bought in 1872 for $3,000 in gold by Elizabeth Bullock Smith Huling. As a Kentucky orphan she had fled toward the Sabine River in the 1836 "Runaway Scrape," the panicked flight of Texas families ahead of Santa Anna's advancing army. Her husband, Thomas B. Huling, fought in the Texas Revolution and later served as a congressman of the Republic of Texas.

Humble, TX

Believed to be Humble's oldest burial ground, this cemetery holds a documented grave from 1879 and, by tradition, the unmarked resting place of Jane Elizabeth Humble, wife of the town's founder Pleasant Humble. Its first legal record is an 1914 deed to trustees, though burials long predate it. A Civil War veteran and several World War I soldiers lie among the town's pioneer families.

Humble, TX

Around the turn of the 20th century, Humble's Masons still belonged to lodges in neighboring towns until, with help from Justice of the Peace F. K. Wise, they chartered their own lodge in 1908. They first met in the bank building of Ross Sterling — future Texas governor — and after a 1912 fire bought the property to build their own hall. The lodge remained active in civic affairs for decades.

Baytown, TX

Ross S. Sterling and five partners founded the Humble Oil Company in 1911, incorporating in 1917 and financing a Baytown refinery by selling half its stock to Standard Oil of New Jersey. First oil flowed into the still in 1920, and a company town grew up around the plant, complete with low-interest home loans for workers. By World War II the refinery's research was producing vital war materiel, and the enterprise eventually became part of what would be renamed Exxon in 1972.

Greenville, TX

The Humboldt community began to grow in 1866 when a caravan of families arrived from Tennessee. The first burial was likely an infant in 1868, and the Dinsmore family deeded the land as a burial ground in 1890. The 38 marked infant graves before 1932 — and the grave of a teacher who died in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic — testify to the harsh realities of pioneer and early-modern life.

Pershing County, NV

Humboldt House began as the departure point for Humboldt City and nearby mines, became a stage stop on the Beachey line in 1866, and reached its heyday when the Central Pacific railhead arrived in September 1868. From 1869 to 1900 it was celebrated as one of the finest eating-houses on the Central Pacific — a true desert oasis of good water, fruit, and vegetables. The site also stood along the California emigrant trail, where in 1850 alone travelers counted over 9,700 dead animals and 3,000 abandoned wagons on the nearby Forty Mile Desert.

Cornplanter Township, PA · est. 2001

Along Cherry Run in Venango County, chemist Jon Bruns and the Lodovici Brothers opened the Humboldt Refinery in 1862, in the heart of the region where America's oil industry was born only a few years earlier. Named for the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, the 47-acre works was among the largest and most scientifically advanced refineries of its day, featuring a two-mile pipeline, oil-fired boilers, and even aniline dye production. It ran until 1868, a brief but ambitious chapter in the frenzied early oil boom.

Humboldt County, NV

Fur trapper Peter Skene Ogden reached this river on November 9, 1828, during his fifth Snake Country expedition, exploring hundreds of square miles of its course and drafting the first map of the region. Unsure where it led, he called it the "Unknown River," later renaming it Paul's, Swampy, and finally Mary's River before it became known as the Humboldt. As the only natural artery across the Great Basin, the river funneled thousands of emigrants toward the Pacific between 1841 and 1870.

Wells, NV

These marshy springs in the meadows were Humboldt Wells, a vital oasis on the California Emigrant Trail. Between 1845 and 1869, hundreds of covered-wagon trains halted here to rest and refit before the grueling 300-mile push down the Humboldt Valley. Deep ruts worn by their passage can still be traced on the surrounding slopes. When the Central Pacific Railroad built a station in 1869, it borrowed the springs' name, later shortened to Wells.

Hummelstown, PA · est. 2005

From 1863 to 1929, quarries near Hummelstown cut a rich, even-grained brownstone prized by builders across the country as a fashionable masonry stone. The Hummelstown Brownstone Company, founded by Allen Walton, drew immigrant stone-cutters and laborers whose skilled hands shaped the blocks that faced churches, rowhouses, and public buildings far beyond Pennsylvania.

Crosby, TX

Humphrey and Sarah Merriman Jackson came to Texas in 1823 as members of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300," settling east of the San Jacinto River. Their land grant helped open the San Jacinto District and enlarge Austin's colony, adding fresh ground for Anglo settlement. Sarah died just a year after arriving, and the couple lies buried nearby beneath a distinctive zinc grave marker.

New York, NY

This was the boyhood home of Humphrey DeForest Bogart, born in 1899, who lived here until 1923 before finding his way to the stage and screen. Over nearly thirty years and some seventy-five films, Bogart became one of Hollywood's defining leading men and an enduring symbol of American cool.

Crosby, TX

Trained in law and opposed to slavery, Irish emigrant Humphrey Jackson left his Louisiana sugar plantation to join Stephen F. Austin's colony in 1823, unknowingly settling just outside its bounds. He helped petition Mexican authorities to form the San Jacinto District under Austin's control and was elected its alcalde, becoming one of the earliest civic leaders in what is now Harris County before his death in 1833.