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Klein, TX

German immigrants settled this corner of Harris County in the 1840s, in a community later renamed for pioneer Adam Klein. The cemetery began in tragedy: a diphtheria epidemic in 1872 took several children, first buried beneath an oak on the Kaiser farm, and in 1875 the family deeded the plot to Trinity Lutheran Church. Many of its German-inscribed stones mark the graves of the settlement's founders.

Frelsburg, TX

German immigrant William Frels reached Texas in 1834 and settled among fellow pioneers whose spiritual needs were met by circuit-riding frontier pastors. In 1855 he gave land for a church and cemetery, and the Rev. C. Roehm organized the congregation, whose ministers long doubled as day-school teachers. The congregation later helped found the American Lutheran Church and shifted to English-language services in 1932.

Round Rock, TX

Founded by the Augustana Lutheran Synod, Trinity Lutheran College opened in Round Rock in 1906 after the town lured it with a well, city lots, and railroad freight concessions. A three-story native-stone building housed its first classes, and the school earned state accreditation in 1920 despite chronic financial strain. When it failed and merged in 1929, the campus took on new life as Lutheran homes for children and the aged.

Dallas, TX

This cemetery is the last trace of a company town at Eagle Ford, west of Dallas, where a cement plant opened in 1909 and drew many Mexican immigrants fleeing the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution. The company built segregated villages—one for Anglos, one for Mexican laborers—and around 1918 donated land for a cemetery for its Hispanic workers, whose earliest burials are believed to have been victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic, many of them children. The houses were gone by 1959, but the graves remain.

Dallas, TX

This Dallas congregation began as a Sunday school in the late 1880s and was formally organized in 1890 as the Oak Cliff Cumberland Presbyterian Church under Rev. Daniel G. Molloy, with charter members drawn from pioneer Dallas families. When the Cumberland Church reunited with the mainstream Presbyterian denomination in 1904, the congregation took a new name, and after worshiping at several nearby locations it settled at this site in 1944.

Galveston, TX

Founded in 1841 by the Rev. Benjamin Eaton as the third Episcopal mission in the Republic of Texas, Trinity built this Galveston sanctuary between 1855 and 1857. Eaton served as rector for thirty years and lies buried beneath the sanctuary, and it was here in 1859 that Alexander Gregg was elected the first Episcopal bishop of Texas. The church and its congregation endured Galveston's repeated ordeals of epidemic, fire, and flood.

Houston, TX

This congregation began as an 1848 mission for the enslaved members of Houston's Methodist church and received a sanctuary of its own around 1851. Officially organized in 1865 as freedom arrived, it grew to 100 members within a year and laid a downtown cornerstone in 1869. One of Houston's earliest Black congregations, it took part in founding Wiley College and helped give rise to Texas Southern University.

Castell, TX

The oldest documented grave here, that of two-year-old Feodor Leifeste, dates to 1871, and two years later Carl Lehmberg deeded the land to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for a cemetery. Reflecting the region's strong German heritage, the burial ground served the Castell, Mason, and Llano communities with both marked and unmarked graves. Among those interred are German immigrants, Methodist ministers, and veterans of conflicts reaching back to the Civil War.

Sherman, TX

Chartered in 1851 as a Cumberland society, this was the first Presbyterian congregation in the frontier town of Sherman, founded by the Rev. W. A. Provine. In its early decades it shared worship space in a union church house and the local Methodist church before building its own home in 1871. The congregation later raised an English Gothic edifice, changed its name more than once, and eventually became Trinity United Presbyterian.

Sherman, TX

This congregation began in 1851 when the Rev. W.A. Provine gathered Sherman residents into a Cumberland Presbyterian church, one of many the denomination planted across antebellum Grayson County. Meeting first in the Masonic hall and later its own 1872 sanctuary, the church changed names across the generations — Grace, then Central, and finally Trinity United Presbyterian — as it moved and grew, emphasizing youth and mission work throughout. In 1995 it merged with Sherman's First Presbyterian Church to create Covenant Presbyterian.

Sunnyvale, TX

Pioneers reached this area as early as 1845, forming the Tripp, Long Creek, Hatterville, and New Hope settlements, and by 1882 Tripp residents were worshipping in the local schoolhouse under grocer-turned-pastor C.J. Washmon. The congregation dedicated its own sanctuary in 1918, sharing it at first with an Assembly of God group, and its members held brush-arbor revivals and creek-side baptisms for generations. When the surrounding communities consolidated into the City of Sunnyvale in the 1950s, Tripp Baptist endured as one of their oldest institutions.

Waxahachie, TX

Completed in 1896 for banker and civic leader H. W. Trippet, this Waxahachie residence was later home to Walter E. Shive, owner of a thriving seed, grain, and coal business. Blending Queen Anne and Shingle styles, it typifies the substantial houses that went up in the neighborhood at the turn of the century, with cedar fish-scale shingles, a wraparound porch, and an octagonal tower.

Rosenberg, TX

This house stands on land that was part of the 1824 grant to Henry Scott, one of Stephen F. Austin's 'Old 300' colonists. Built in 1909 as a wedding gift for rancher-banker Earl R. Trone, it was constructed of pine and cypress on a granite foundation meant to weather hurricanes and floods. Later owner Taylor Ray served on Rosenberg's first Board of Aldermen, as mayor, and for 24 years as school board president; the home remains with his Ray-Lane descendants.

Midlothian, TX

Jake Sewell bought these Midlothian lots in 1912, and after marrying Nettie Witherspoon in 1915 the couple built this house—likely funded by dividends from the Hog Creek Oil Company—sometime after 1918. In the 1930s Nettie rented rooms to the town's single women teachers. For more than half a century the home belonged to Clyde and Cloma Trotter; Cloma, a civic leader who became Midlothian's first female mayor, left it to the Salvation Army. Its Arts and Crafts and Prairie School design features a wide porch, porte-cochere, oak floors, Rookwood tiles, and a curved staircase.

Troup, TX

When the International & Great Northern Railroad platted the town of Zavala—later Troup—in 1873, it set aside no ground for the dead. Local leaders and Judge William Wright Morris pressed the railroad, which in 1875 deeded 1.67 acres for a public burial ground. Among the earliest interred was South Carolina native William A. Arms, reinterred here by his widow, alongside three of the town's early mayors who had helped bring the rail line through.

Newton, TX

Carved from the James West Survey, this East Texas graveyard dates to the early 1860s, with oral tradition holding that its first burials were area Indians or enslaved people from the nearby Salem community. Its oldest documented graves belong to John and Christina Barnett, and among those resting here are six Civil War veterans alongside men who served in World War I, World War II, and Korea. Descendants have tended the grounds since the turn of the century, chartering a cemetery association in 1973.

Newton, TX

According to local tradition, Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1876 in the piney woods of Newton County, worshiping for years in a shared community building that also served as a school. The congregation bought the building and site and raised a new sanctuary in 1956, holding its first full-time services in 1958. Figures like deacon and lay minister "Uncle Johnny" Bean anchored its early decades, leading Sunday School and singing classes and helping with baptisms in the spring-fed waters of Trout Creek.

Allentown, PA · est. 1967

James Allen, son of Allentown's founder William Allen, built this handsome country seat in 1769–70 on the eve of the Revolution. Over the next century Trout Hall passed through many hands and purposes—known for a time as the Livingston Mansion before becoming Allentown Seminary in 1848 and, in 1867, part of the newly founded Muhlenberg College. Today it houses the Lehigh County Historical Society.

Mashpee, MA

In the heart of Mashpee, ancestral homeland of the Wampanoag people, this spot marks the resting place of a giant trout from tribal legend. As the story goes, the great fish burrowed inland from the sea to Santuit Pond, and the channel it carved became the Santuit River that flows there still. Such origin tales, passed down through generations of Wampanoag storytellers, explain the living landscape of Cape Cod as the work of powerful beings from the deep past.

Whitehall, PA · est. 1970

Built in 1756 by John Peter Troxell and acquired in 1768 by Peter Steckel, this sturdy stone farmhouse reflects the German-speaking settlers who shaped colonial Lehigh County. Their solid Pennsylvania-German architecture was made to last generations, and this one did. Restored in 1943, it now serves as a museum kept by the Lehigh County Historical Society.

Whitehall, PA · est. 1970

Just west of this marker stands the stone house John Peter Troxell built in 1756 and Peter Steckel acquired in 1768, a survivor of colonial Lehigh County's German farming community. Its enduring masonry speaks to the craftsmanship of the region's Pennsylvania-German settlers. Restored in 1943, the home is now maintained as a museum by the Lehigh County Historical Society.

Galveston, TX

Built in 1890 for John Clement Trube, a young immigrant from Kiel, Denmark, this whimsical home was styled after a Danish castle by architect Alfred Muller. Its solid brick walls, finished in Belgian cement, have weathered generation after generation of Gulf hurricanes on Galveston Island. Remarkably, the house has remained in the Trube family that first raised nine children within its towered rooms.

Anson, TX

Settlers were burying their dead on this Jones County ground before the Daughtrey family, early area ranchers, formally deeded three acres for a cemetery in 1906. The oldest marked grave is that of an infant granddaughter of pioneer Baptist minister George W. Scarborough, who settled the land in 1877. Descendants later added a fence and flagpole in tribute to the pioneers, veterans, and citizens laid to rest here.

Washoe County, NV

The flats along the Truckee River were home to Native peoples for thousands of years, who fished with blinds and left petroglyphs on the surrounding boulders. After John C. Frémont recorded the river in 1844, it became a lifeline and a hazard for California-bound emigrants—among them the Stephens-Murphy-Townsend party that crossed Donner Pass and the ill-fated Donner party, trapped by Sierra snows in 1846. The Central Pacific followed the river's course in 1868, and its route later matured through the Lincoln and Victory highways into U.S. 40 and Interstate 80.

Washoe County, NV

The Truckee River, flowing from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, was first recorded by John C. Frémont in January 1844, who camped at its terminus and dubbed it the Salmon-Trout River before following it over Donner Pass. From the Stephens-Murphy-Townsend party of 1844 onward it guided California emigrants until the Central Pacific Railroad closed the wagon era in 1868–1869. The old railroad grade later became a county road, then Nevada's Victory Highway, U.S. 40, and finally the first stretch of Interstate 80 across the state.

Slatington, PA · est. 1952

A sawmill standing here before 1755 turned the forests of the Lehigh Valley into lumber for a growing frontier. When the French and Indian War set the backcountry ablaze, the sturdy mill — also called Kern's Fort — became a defensive station and shelter for troops. Sitting at the crossing of two pioneer roads, it commanded a position of real military value in a dangerous borderland.

Fort Davis, TX

Built about 1898 in native stone, adobe, and milled wood, this fine Queen Anne house served as a summer home for the Galveston real-estate investor Henry Trueheart and his family. They came each year to escape the coastal heat and enjoy the cool, healthful climate of the Davis Mountains, keeping the house until 1920.

Galveston, TX

This 1882 building was designed in high Victorian, neo-Renaissance style by Nicholas J. Clayton — Galveston's celebrated architect — for H. M. Trueheart & Co., the first chartered real estate firm in Texas. Founded by John O. Trueheart in 1857 and carried on by his son and partner John Adriance, the firm did business here for decades. The Junior League of Galveston later restored the ornate landmark.

Joaquin, TX

James Truitt and his wife Sarah left North Carolina in 1838 and settled near this site in 1840, when Texas was still an independent republic. Truitt served in the Republic's congress and, after statehood, in the Texas legislature as both representative and senator. The family sent sons into the Regulator-Moderator War, the Mexican War, and the Civil War, and several generations of Truitts rest in this cemetery founded at Sarah's death in 1848.

Madisonville, TX

Born in the tiny Madison County community of Cottonwood in 1918, Truman Kimbro was drafted in 1941 and shipped to Europe with the 2nd Engineer Battalion, landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day. In December 1944 he was killed while laying anti-tank mines directly in the path of advancing German troops — a final act of courage that earned him the Medal of Honor. He rests in the American military cemetery at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium.

New Bern, NC

Completed in 1770, Tryon Palace served as the colonial capitol and residence of North Carolina's royal governors, and then as the first state capitol until 1794. Its lavish construction, funded by taxes, stirred backcountry resentment that fed the Regulator movement. The building burned in 1798 and was meticulously reconstructed in the 1950s.

Gaston County, NC

In the tense summer of 1775, as news of Lexington and Concord rippled south, the citizens of Tryon County in the western Carolina backcountry gathered to put their defiance in writing. Their resolves pledged resistance to what they called British tyranny and affirmed their rights as free people — one of a wave of local declarations that swept North Carolina that year, well before the Continental Congress declared independence. Signed here in August 1775, the Tryon Resolves joined kindred documents like the Mecklenburg and Tryon-area resolutions in giving the Revolution its grassroots voice in the Piedmont.

Bryson City, NC

Tsali was a Cherokee man who resisted the forced removal of his people in 1838, escaping into the mountains from the U.S. troops rounding up the Cherokee for the Trail of Tears. He was captured and executed nearby. His act of defiance became legend, later dramatized in the outdoor drama Unto These Hills.

Centerville vicinity, TX

This East Texas burial ground grew up around the graves of early landowners the Tubb family and the pioneer Leathers family, whose first interment dates to 1849. Oral tradition holds that Joel Leathers, who could speak several Indian dialects, was sent to the area by General Sam Houston — a hint of the frontier's uneasy meeting of settlers and Native peoples. Later headstones mark veterans of the Civil War and both World Wars, so the cemetery reads like a layered record of the communities of Malvern, Nineveh, and Oakwood.

Weatherford, TX

Moses Tucker and his twin brother left Kentucky for the Texas frontier in 1853, raising a log cabin on this Parker County land before Moses went off to the Civil War. Returning to his wife Martha and their family, he farmed the ground he had claimed, and around 1889 the family built the vernacular board-and-batten house that still stands. For more than a century the Tuckers worked this land, a quiet record of one settler family's endurance through war, drought, and generations.

Taylor, TX

Prominent lumberman J. E. Tucker built this Taylor residence in 1892 in the fashionable Queen Anne style. After Decker Franklin Smith bought it in 1905, he remodeled it extensively in 1916 in the then-popular Mission style, adding a wraparound porch, paired Doric columns, and distinctive quatrefoil windows. The house records the shifting architectural tastes of a prospering Central Texas town.

Dallas, TX

Educated at Wiley College and Prairie View Normal, Tueria Dell Marshall taught across Dallas before becoming principal of Lincoln, the city's second high school for African American students, in 1939, a post he held until 1955. Beyond the classroom he co-founded the Dallas Star Post newspaper and organized a Wiley College extension school. He was buried near his beloved Lincoln High in 1960, though the exact site of his grave is now lost.

Clarksville, TX

Tennessee farmer Andrew Jackson Tuggle set aside this ground as a cemetery in 1864, after a mother and infant died, also reserving land for a church and school. Named for Tuggle and the nearby springs, the burial ground took in the area's settlers and veterans of conflicts reaching back to the Civil War. Since 1960 a cemetery association has cared for the site, with its Woodmen of the World markers and weathered grave slabs.

Las Vegas, NV

Tule Springs is one of the rare North American sites offering evidence of human presence stretching back many thousands of years, when this now-arid basin held sagebrush flats, yellow-pine forests, and abundant springs. Those waters drew Ice Age megafauna — ground sloths, mammoths, prehistoric horses, camels, and the first Nevada record of the extinct giant condor — and the early hunters who pursued them. Later desert-culture peoples lived here for millennia, subsisting on plants and small game, while the site's remarkably complete Pleistocene geology records it all.

Tuleta, TX

In 1906 the Rev. Peter Unzicker led a band of Illinois settlers to this South Texas prairie, buying land from an old Spanish grant and founding the town of Tuleta, named for a rancher's daughter. He organized one of Texas's earliest Mennonite churches in 1909, and townspeople opened the innovative Tuleta Agricultural High School the next year. For a time the town thrived as a marketing center for the surrounding farmland.

Tulia, TX

Tulia began in 1887 on the Tule Ranch division of the JA Ranch, but the nearest railhead lay more than 100 miles away, isolating the town for years. After the Board of Trade raised funds to lure a line, the Santa Fe reached Tulia in December 1906; a frame depot burned in 1915 and was replaced in 1916–17 by a mission-revival brick station with a tiled roof and separate waiting rooms. Citizens rallied to save the building when the railway demolished part of it in 1987.

Jackson Township, PA · est. 1954

German-speaking settlers of the Tulpehocken Valley organized this congregation in 1727, part of the wave of Palatine immigrants who put down roots in colonial Pennsylvania. When merchant Caspar Wistar granted land for their second house of worship, he asked in return a single red rose paid each year — a quaint "quit-rent" the church has honored ever since, answered since 1902 by a white rose given back to Wistar's descendants.

Pine Grove Township, PA · est. 1949

The Tulpehocken Path was a key overland route through the Blue Mountain, threading the "Gaps of the Swatara" toward the Iroquois council fire at Onondaga in New York. In 1743 the celebrated interpreter Conrad Weiser passed here alongside naturalist John Bartram and mapmaker Lewis Evans, carrying peace messages from Virginia to the Six Nations to defuse frontier tensions. Their journey was part of the delicate diplomacy that kept an uneasy peace between colonists and the powerful Iroquois Confederacy.

Jackson Township, PA · est. 1950

This ridge carried the Tulpehocken Path, a leg of the "Indian Ambassadors Road" used by Iroquois chiefs traveling from Onondaga, their council fire near present-day Syracuse, to Philadelphia. Carrying wampum belts of peace from the "Fire that Never Dies," they journeyed to treat with colonial officials in the tense diplomacy of the 1700s. Shickellamy, the Oneida overseer of the Susquehanna, often walked this route.

Jordan Township, PA · est. 1950

Near Mahantango Gap stood the Double Eagle, a resting place along the Native trail that ran from Shamokin, at the forks of the Susquehanna where Sunbury now stands, eastward to Conrad Weiser's home in the Tulpehocken Valley and on to Philadelphia. This path was a corridor of trade and diplomacy in colonial Pennsylvania. Along it moved the messengers and negotiators who bound the Iroquois and the colony together.

Hegins Township, PA · est. 1950

Running the ridge between Deep and Pine Creeks, the Tulpehocken Path tied Shamokin—the Susquehanna town of the Oneida overseer Shickellamy, now Sunbury—to the fertile Tulpehocken Valley to the southeast. In the mid-1700s it was a diplomatic artery, walked by Iroquois ambassadors carrying wampum and by Moravian and other Christian missionaries seeking Native converts. Along such paths the uneasy business of colonial-era alliance and negotiation moved on foot.

Heidelberg Township, PA · est. 1951

Long before highways, a network of Indian paths threaded through the Pennsylvania mountains, and the Tulpehocken Path was among the most important. It ran from Shamokin on the Susquehanna, over the ridges by way of Pine Grove, down to the Tulpehocken Valley where the interpreter Conrad Weiser made his home. Along it, chiefs of the Six Nations carried belts of wampum — the diplomatic currency of the Iroquois — on missions to "Brother Onas," the Native name for the Penn family, at Philadelphia.

Bethel Township, PA · est. 1952

This ridge once carried the Tulpehocken Path, a Native trail linking the Iroquois town of Shamokin—at present-day Sunbury—with the fertile Tulpehocken Valley to the southeast. Along it traveled Indian ambassadors journeying to treat with "Brother Onas," the Iroquois name for William Penn and the proprietors who followed him. The path was a channel of the careful diplomacy that governed Pennsylvania's early relations with the Six Nations.

Columbus, TX

John and Elizabeth Tumlinson brought their seven children to Texas as members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, settling on the Colorado River. John was elected the district's first alcalde and, in May 1823, helped organize the first official Texas Ranger company to defend settlers — only to be killed in an Indian attack two months later. His descendants carried the family legacy forward, with more than a dozen serving as Rangers and frontier lawmen across the following century.

Philadelphia, PA · est. 2005

Near this spot stood Tun Tavern, a colonial Philadelphia public house that operated from 1693 until 1781 and, by tradition, served as the recruiting ground for the first battalions of Continental Marines. When the Continental Congress authorized two battalions of Marines on November 10, 1775, the fledgling corps drew its first volunteers here—a birthplace the Marine Corps still honors with its motto, Semper Fidelis.

Nicholson Township, PA · est. 1995

When it opened in 1915 on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the Tunkhannock Viaduct was the largest reinforced-concrete structure ever built. Stretching 2,375 feet and rising 240 feet above Tunkhannock Creek, it was the centerpiece of a nearly forty-mile line relocation meant to straighten and speed the railroad. The novelist Theodore Dreiser marveled at it as "one of the true wonders of the world."

Comfort, TX

In 1913 residents of the Texas Hill Country raised their own money to connect Fredericksburg to San Antonio by rail, and the 920-foot tunnel bored beneath this hill was the project's costliest, most grueling stretch. Passengers learned to close their windows against coal smoke as trains rumbled through, while crews cleared rock shaken loose by engine exhaust. The line carried farmers' and merchants' goods until 1942, when its track was pulled up and sold for scrap.

Ocean View, DE

This modest frame dwelling has stood in the small Sussex County town of Ocean View since about 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, when this stretch of coastal Delaware was still a quiet landscape of farms, timber, and small crossroads communities well before it became a beach-resort corridor. Homes like the Tunnell-West House anchored such towns, passing through local families across generations. Its listing on the National Register of Historic Places marks it as a recognized survivor of that antebellum era, worth preserving as the region around it transformed.

Berkeley, CA

Music dealers John Tupper and Lawrence Reed, in business in Berkeley since 1906, commissioned architect William Raymond Yelland to build this whimsical 1925 "storybook" building for their store. Yelland filled it with clinker bricks, wood-beam ceilings, slate roofs, balconies, and a monumental fireplace, and an iron cutout once advertised the upstairs Sign of the Piper Restaurant. After a 1959 fire, Tupper and Reed moved next door, but the fanciful landmark endures on the National Register.

Cooper, TX

Born in Mississippi in 1856, Sam B. Turbeville came with his wife Saluda to Texas in 1879 and settled in Delta County as a farmer. Elected county sheriff in a contested special election in 1897, he served several terms, counseling young people and enforcing Prohibition. His career culminated in appointment as U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Texas.

Taylor, TX

The Turkey Creek School opened in 1893 on land donated by Henry Henkes and his wife, a single frame building where one teacher taught all eight grades. Terms ran just three or four months a year in the early days, and only after 1919 did the school employ more than one teacher. When it closed in 1949, its students moved on to schools in Taylor or Thrall.

Turkey, TX

In 1928 the town of Turkey acquired this land for a $100,000 high school, hiring Amarillo architect E.F. Rittenberry to design a brick building with English Gothic details. Consolidation with surrounding schools swelled enrollment to 445 students that same year, filling eight classrooms, a gymnasium, and an auditorium. Classes ended in 1973 after further consolidation, but the building was saved as a center for community offices and events.

Dublin, TX

Chesley Turnbow and his wife Sabra worked their way west from Kentucky and Tennessee through Arkansas before settling on this Erath County land in the 1850s. The burial ground began in 1879 with the grave of an infant grandchild, and within months it held the family patriarch himself; seven of his ten children rest here as well. It became the resting place of pioneer families, longtime rural neighbors, and veterans of America's wars beginning with the Civil War.

Wills Point, TX

Twenty members founded Turner Baptist Church on November 15, 1909, first worshipping at the Turner School, where several faiths took turns holding Sunday services. By 1917 the shared arrangement was known as Turner Union Church, until growing attendance led the other denominations to build their own homes in the mid-1950s and the Baptists to remodel and expand. The congregation completed a new sanctuary in 1997 and continues to serve the Turner community.

Schulenburg, TX

Built in 1886 by the Schulenburg Turnverein—a German gymnastic and social club—Turner Hall reflected the deep imprint of German immigrants on Central Texas life. For generations it hosted theatricals, concerts, and seasonal celebrations, and after the American Legion acquired it in 1936 the hall was moved to Wolters Park to continue its life as a community gathering place.