15,117 markers in the database — showing 10,321–10,380.
Post, TX
Cereal magnate C. W. Post founded this planned town on the Caprock in 1907, watering it first by windmill and later from White River Lake. Post envisioned a self-sufficient community sustained by ranching, farming, and industry — anchored by the Postex Cotton Mills, whose sheets and pillowcases gave the town year-round work. By the 1960s it also served as a hub for more than 1,750 oil wells across Garza County.
Brownsville, TX
When Captain William Alonzo Wainwright arrived in Brownsville in 1868 to rebuild Fort Brown after the Civil War and an 1867 hurricane, one of his first projects was this Post Hospital, completed in 1869 and admired for its classical, Palladian-influenced design. Beyond its architecture, the building holds a place in medical history: First Lt. William C. Gorgas, later famous for controlling yellow fever during the building of the Panama Canal, began the studies that shaped that work while stationed here in 1883.
Brownsville, TX
Completed in 1869 as Captain William Alonzo Wainwright rebuilt Fort Brown after the Civil War, the Post Hospital Annex — also known as the Medical Laboratory — was built to house personnel working in the adjacent Post Hospital. A finely crafted, classically influenced building, it later served in turn as a medical laboratory, a storehouse, and a dispensary.
Holland vicinity, TX
This quiet cemetery is the last trace of the Post Oak community, which grew up after Isham McMillin acquired land here in 1855. Its oldest marked grave belongs to his daughter Elizabeth, buried in 1857, and many of the small stones mark infants and children—a stark measure of how hard frontier life could be. A Baptist church and schoolhouse followed on land Sarah McMillin sold in 1873, giving the community its name, until fire and consolidation eventually scattered it.
Easton, TX
In 1878, freedpeople near Easton gathered in fellowship to found the Post Oak Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, worshipping first in a humble log cabin. Like many Black churches born in Reconstruction, it served as far more than a sanctuary—it was the political and social heart of a community built by African American landowners. From a tiny frame building the congregation grew across the decades into a modern brick church, renamed Post Oak Christian Methodist Episcopal in 1954.
Glen Rose, TX
Settled in the years after the Civil War, Post Oak took its name from the trees common to Somervell County and grew up around its churches, school, and cemetery. The Rev. Seaborn Foust donated the adjoining parcels that formed the community's core, and the Missionary Baptist church loomed largest in its life. Cotton and fruit gave way to peanuts and cattle, and though many residents left for the cities by the 1940s, construction of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant beginning in 1972 revived the settlement on its eastern edge.
Seguin, TX
This burial ground grew out of the Post Oak Zion Evangelical Church, founded in 1885 to serve a largely German farming community near Seguin. In 1894 two immigrant families—the Brietzkes and Schievelbeins—each donated an acre for the cemetery, though its first recorded grave, that of ten-year-old Julius Radatz, dates to 1888. More than 169 graves hold the area's pioneer settlers and their descendants beneath the two great post oaks that gave the place its name.
Elgin, TX
Post Oak Island was one of this area's earliest settlements, dating to the 1840s, and in 1855 a handful of local men founded a Masonic lodge there, formally constituted as No. 181 in 1856. As the countryside shifted, members literally moved their lodge hall twice, to Sam Smith Springs in 1878 and to Beaukiss in 1901. Despite tiny surrounding populations, the lodge drew steady membership from the scattered rural communities.
Crockett, TX
Post Oak School held its first classes in September 1892 and served African American students across rural Houston County for more than 60 years. Built beside Mt. Olive Baptist Church, it grew to include seven classrooms and, by 1939, a vocational building for homemaking and agriculture, drawing students from as far as eight miles away. Alongside the church it anchored community life with athletics, drama, music, and interscholastic competitions before consolidation closed it in 1955.
San Marcos, TX
In December 1838 the Republic of Texas Congress ordered a chain of military roads and forts from the Red River to the Nueces, and a road from Austin joining the old Camino Real near St. Mark's Springs was meant to speed communication between San Antonio and the capital. Adjutant General Hugh McLeod laid out Post San Marcos to guard the route, and Captain Joseph Wiehl's company completed both road and fort in 1840. When the Republic disbanded its army in 1841 for lack of funds, the post closed.
Post, TX
After founding Post City in 1907, cereal manufacturer C.W. Post lured the Santa Fe Railroad to lay tracks in 1910, and the depot followed in 1911. Designed by the noted architect Louis Curtiss in reinforced concrete and terra cotta tile, it matched a family of depots Curtiss built across West Texas at Lubbock, Snyder, and Sweetwater. One of the few Curtiss designs still standing, the depot marks the moment a planned company town joined the national rail network.
Post, TX
C. W. Post established the Postex Cotton Mill in 1912 as part of his dream of diversified income for Garza County farmers and prosperity for the town of Post. It was among the world's first mills to carry cotton from raw bale to finished cloth under one roof, with a gin, bleachery, spinning, weaving, and sewing rooms — 10,000 spindles and 480 looms employing about 250 workers. Its "Garza" brand textiles sold for years, and after a 1956 expansion the mill worked on consignment worldwide.
Post, TX
Cereal magnate C. W. Post founded this cotton mill in 1912 to give the people of his planned West Texas town a market for their crop and steady work close to home. Ambitiously, it was designed to carry cotton through every stage under one roof—from ginned fiber all the way to finished goods—a rare feat of vertical integration for its time.
Valley Mills, TX
One of the earliest settlements in this part of Bosque County grew up along Hog Creek in the 1850s around a rock building used as a school and church, giving the area the name Rock Church on Hog Creek. After the Civil War, John Odle's family settled here, and Odle set aside this cemetery ground following the 1875 death of his sister, Mary Odle Poston. Pioneer families rest here, and the cemetery gates were built from the stones of the old rock church.
Poteet, TX
Poteet grew from an 1880s mercantile store run by Francis Marion Poteet, a merchant, blacksmith, and farmer who also carried the mail—so that the area took on his name. Henry T. Mumme bought the business, kept the post office, and in 1910 he and his wife Ida donated 400 acres for a new townsite; Mumme drilled the first artesian well and introduced strawberry farming. The sandy soil and artesian water proved ideal, earning Poteet its title as the "Strawberry Capital of Texas."
Mesquite, TX
John and Martha Potter, citizens of the Republic of Texas, bought a farm near the Haught's Store community in 1860, and when their young son died the following year he became the first burial on this ground. John enlisted in the Confederate Army that same month and, after the war, served as justice of the peace over a landholding approaching a thousand acres. Most of the family's nine children lie here, in a cemetery whose last recorded burial came in 1947.
Amarillo, TX
Potter County was carved from earlier territories and created in 1876, though it was not fully organized until 1887, with Amarillo as its seat. It honors Robert Potter (1800–1842), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence who served as Secretary of the Navy and later as a senator in the Congress of the Republic of Texas. The marker ties a remote Panhandle county to the founding drama of Texas independence.
Amarillo, TX
Potter County organized in 1887 and put up its first, humble courthouse in 1888 for just $191. The 1920s oil boom nearly tripled Amarillo's population and studded its skyline with skyscrapers, and the prosperity funded this fifth courthouse, built in 1930–32 for $420,000 by more than 500 local laborers. Designed in a striking Art Deco style with stepped massing and ornamental relief, it was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1996.
Amarillo, TX
The Potter County free library began in 1902 through the efforts of twelve local women, who gathered donated books and raised money with bazaars and candy sales. After moving through a series of borrowed quarters, the library won county support in 1921, and this building rose in 1922 for $25,000 in the prairie-school style. Its basement offered a lounge for women shoppers, children, and tourists, staffed by a matron.
Amarillo, TX
The land that became Potter County lay in country ranged by Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa peoples and crossed by old Spanish and trail routes, including the Great Spanish Road of 1786 and the Fort Smith–Santa Fe Trail followed by 1849 gold seekers. Created by the legislature in 1876 while still empty, it saw Indigenous peoples forced out and buffalo replaced by longhorns, the great LX and barbed-wire Frying Pan ranches established, and finally organized by cowboy voters in 1887. Named for Republic of Texas official Robert Potter, it later gave up the vast Panhandle-Hugoton gas field and holds the Alibates flint quarries worked by prehistoric peoples as early as 10,000 B.C.
Fairfield, TX
Raised around 1852 by Daniel Potter, a farmer who broke wild horses, this cabin shows the careful craft of frontier building — a cedar floor, split-board roofing joined by wooden pegs, and hewn logs locked tightly together. It passed through the Potter and Watson families for generations, sheltering brides and newborns, until a descendant gave it to a museum in 1967 so its handiwork would endure.
Smithland, TX
Robert Potter was one of the founding figures of the Republic of Texas—a signer of its Declaration of Independence, a shaper of its constitution, and its first Secretary of the Navy—who settled on Caddo Lake in 1837 and won a Senate seat in 1840. His fierce personal and political feud with William P. Rose turned deadly here: in March 1842, Rose's armed party surrounded his home, and Potter was shot dead as he swam across the lake seeking help. The killing became one of the frontier Republic's most notorious episodes.
Big Spring, TX
Joseph Potton, an English-born master mechanic for the Texas & Pacific Railroad, built this Victorian home in Big Spring in 1901, using local Pecos sandstone, iron pillars, and zinc gable decorations from a Fort Worth architectural firm. A school board trustee, Potton retired in 1912 and lived here with his wife, often entertaining guests, before the house passed to their daughter's family. It survives as a well-preserved emblem of the prosperity the railroad brought to West Texas.
Pottsboro, TX
Before Anglo settlers arrived, the Caddo and Wichita peoples occupied this stretch of North Texas. The town took shape when Confederate veteran and land developer James A. Potts, who had come to Grayson County in 1868, deeded a railroad right-of-way to a Missouri-Kansas-Texas subsidiary in 1878 and platted the townsite that bears his name. Incorporated in 1885, Pottsboro survived repeated fires and later drew new life from the 1940s construction of Perrin Army Air Field and Lake Texoma.
Kendleton, TX
After lawyer William E. Kendall subdivided his plantation into farm tracts sold exclusively to Freedmen in 1869, a thriving African American community named Kendleton took root. In 1890 local A.M.E. churches built one-room schools, and in 1904 Wiley College graduate Tellie B. Mitchell returned home to found Powell Point School, which flourished so that five of its six 1918 graduates went on to college and teaching careers. With Rosenwald Foundation funds, Mitchell built a six-classroom facility in 1923 that became a model institution sought by Black families across southeast Texas.
Huntsville, TX
Powell Sanctuary grew from grief: after Benjamin and Marian Powell lost their five-year-old son in 1923, the couple set out to make a place of comfort for others who mourned. Benjamin was a lawyer and district judge; Marian was a teacher, school board member, and Walker County's women's suffrage chair. Beginning in 1934 they placed within Oakwood Cemetery one of the few full-size American copies of Thorvaldsen's "Christus," with granite benches for meditation — a quiet gift to the town that endures still.
Chilton, TX
When John Powell was buried here in 1889, his family set the land aside as a burial ground shared among a cluster of pioneer families who had settled this part of Falls County. Among those laid to rest is Thomas Marion Tull, a Confederate veteran who had served in the Arkansas legislature and as a justice of the peace before coming to Texas. Descendants still tend the site, which reads as a record of the families who put down roots here.
Ozona, TX
Illinois native E. M. Powell came to Texas in 1874 and worked as a surveyor during the railroad boom, often taking land in payment and building up a 185,000-acre holding in present Crockett County. To draw settlers he advertised in newspapers and offered the first families forty acres of free land plus discounts on more. Ozona was founded on his property—complete with a public well, windmill, and lots for churches and a school—and his efforts led to Crockett County's organization in 1891 with Ozona as county seat.
Victoria, TX
Built in 1894 for Edward Power, this Victoria residence is distinguished by its columns, wide wrapping porches, and fine wood trim in the comfortable style of a prosperous Gilded Age Texas town. In 1960 Mrs. James Power gave the house jointly to three lineage-and-heritage societies — the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was recognized as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1966.
Rosebud, TX
The Methodist circuit rider Joseph P. Sneed gathered this congregation before 1850, and in 1855 Luke Powers and John Cullines gave land for a log church that also served as the community's school. A two-story replacement in 1870 housed a Masonic lodge upstairs, and later gifts of land added a cemetery and a permanent tabernacle in place of the old brush arbor. Revivals and Memorial Day gatherings still bring people back to the grounds.
Galveston, TX
Built in 1873 as a side-gabled cottage for Edward Sylvester, this Galveston house was bought by railroad freight agent Powhatan Wren, a Virginia native who enlarged and updated it in Victorian style in 1885 to fit his family of eight. It survived the 1900 hurricane that flattened most of the neighborhoods between Broadway and the Gulf, and after the seawall's first section was completed, workers raised the structure so fill could be pumped beneath it. Now in the historic East End, it still wears the shiplap siding, gallery porch, and side-gabled roof of its 19th-century form.
Galveston, TX
Built in 1847 by John Seabrook Sydnor, an early Galveston mayor, this Greek Revival landmark boasted Doric columns shipped all the way from Maine. Over its long life the Powhatan House served as a hotel, an orphanage, a military academy, a private residence, and even a movie set before becoming a garden center. It stands among the oldest surviving buildings in a city repeatedly battered by storms.
Poynor, TX
Overlooking the valley of Caddo Creek, the town of Poynor grew up along the Texas and New Orleans Railroad in 1901, first known as "David" for pioneer farmer and veteran David Marion Dickerson. His son donated the first acre for a community cemetery in 1906, and the grounds expanded through later gifts and purchases. The wrought-iron gateway now shelters the graves of farmers, teachers, and businessmen, and of veterans of every American war from the Civil War through Vietnam.
Beeville, TX
San Antonio businessman Albert Praeger settled in Beeville in the 1890s and opened a hardware store and tin shop. In 1906 he built this handsome Romanesque Revival building to house his trade in buggies, wagons, barbed wire, and tools. In 1925 its upper floor of storage was converted into apartments, and it has anchored the courthouse square ever since.
Crawford, TX
The Prairie Chapel rural school district took shape in 1884, one of forty-three school districts whose boundaries McLennan County drew at that time. German immigrant and Civil War veteran Heinrich Engelbrecht, who helped fellow German and Austrian settlers put down roots here, donated land for the school in 1908. The three-room building—complete with well, hitching post, and wood stove—served some seventy students and, alongside the nearby Baptist church, formed the heart of community life until it merged with the Crawford district in 1939.
Hillsboro, TX
Prairie Dale Cemetery was established in 1877, in the years when settlers were filling in the Blackland Prairie of Hill County. Recognized as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2007, it marks the resting place of one of the area's early rural communities.
Diboll vicinity, TX
Prairie Grove took shape in 1845 as a gathering place for East Texas settlers, its cemetery beginning in 1849 with the burial of a young Stovall daughter. A combined school and church built in the 1880s became the community's heart, evolving into the Prairie Grove Missionary Baptist Church by 1921. Though the school closed in 1948, the church and cemetery have served the area for well over a century.
Farmersville, TX
Prairie Grove Cemetery served the rural Aleo community from the late 1800s into the mid-20th century, tied to the Prairie Grove Baptist Church that set aside its land. Its oldest known grave dates to 1895, and it holds victims of the deadly 1927 tornado that struck nearby Nevada. The mother and grandparents of Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier of World War II, who lived in the area for a time, rest here as well.
Houston, TX
Prairie Grove recalls an African American church, school, and cemetery in Alief, where a handful of Black farm laborers and tenant farmers lived in the 1800s before more families — the Outleys, Burlesons, and Garmonds among them — arrived in the early 1900s. Prairie Grove Missionary Baptist Church, said to have first met in the Burleson home, bought this land in 1910 and raised a frame sanctuary that doubled as a schoolhouse from 1927 to 1937. The adjoining burial ground holds roughly fifty known graves, plus unmarked ones, and includes pioneer families, Freemasons, and veterans of World War II and Vietnam.
Prairie Hill, TX
On October 18, 1885, twelve members leaving the Mount Antioch Baptist Church organized a new congregation at Prairie Hill, aided by minister Ezekiel Jackson Billington, who had helped establish churches across the county. Land for a building and cemetery came from his daughter and son-in-law, and the first sanctuary was finished in 1890. The founding members were cotton and corn farmers, and their first pastor, George L. Jennings, was a Confederate veteran who had preached in Mississippi before moving to Texas.
Prairie Hill, TX
Prairie Hill Baptist Church built a sanctuary here in 1890 on three acres given by J. R. and Medora Leathers, and set aside part of the land for a community cemetery in 1894. The first recorded burial, that of Eula Jane Howard, came in June 1894. Enlarged over the decades and maintained since 1958 by a cemetery association, the grounds hold area pioneers and their descendants along with veterans of every conflict from the Civil War to Vietnam.
Brenham, TX
Prairie Lea Cemetery holds graves dating from the 1840s, though the Brenham Cemetery Association did not formally establish it until 1871, spurred by the yellow fever deaths that were filling the older Masonic burial ground. Among those interred are veterans reaching back to the Texas Revolution, prominent Giddings brothers, Methodist founders of early colleges, and Confederate General John David McAdoo. German-inscribed tombstones and the 1897 Rest Chapel reflect the area's deep immigrant heritage.
Argyle, TX
Prairie Mound Cemetery was in use by 1882, the year adjoining land was deeded to the Prairie Mound Methodist Episcopal Church, South; its oldest marked grave is that of little Edgar Myers, who died in 1878. A nearby public school, organized in 1878, and the church anchored this Denton County farming community for decades before both faded—the school consolidated away in the 1940s and the original sanctuary removed in 1961. Many pioneer settlers of the Argyle-Justin area rest here.
Eastland, TX
The Eastland County oil boom of 1917–1922 remade the town, funding many of its public and residential buildings. In 1919 the Prairie Oil and Gas Company built housing here for its officials, including this two-story home occupied by Eastland superintendent W. I. Clark. Sinclair Oil bought the operation in 1932 and sold the houses to private owners a few years later.
Kerens, TX
In the years before the Civil War, Methodist settlers on the Navarro County prairie gathered to form a congregation and, by 1860, raised a sanctuary on land given by one of their charter families. The adjoining burial ground took in its community for generations, and though the church itself dissolved in 1910, the sturdy frame building simply changed jobs, carrying on as a gathering place for the surrounding farms.
Ben Wheeler, TX
This East Texas graveyard traces its beginnings to 1866, when the infant grandson of R. W. Berry was laid to rest here. Long tied to the Prairie Springs Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the plot was formally deeded by Berry in 1880, though burials had already gathered here. When the congregation moved to nearby Ben Wheeler in 1893, the cemetery remained, becoming the resting place for many of the area's pioneer families and their descendants.
Burleson, TX
Established in 1857, Prairie Springs Cemetery is among the older burial grounds in Johnson County, dating to the years when north-central Texas was still a thinly settled agricultural frontier. Its founding just before the Civil War places it among the resting places of the region's earliest pioneer families. The Historic Texas Cemetery designation it received in 2004 marks its enduring role in local memory.
Prairie Valley, TX
In the 1850s, settlers moved onto land in Hill County that had been part of the Waco Indian region, where some of the earliest grants traced back to figures tied to Stephen F. Austin's colonizing generation. Farm families put down roots and, by the 1870s, the little community of Prairie Valley had all the marks of frontier permanence: a church congregation, a post office, a Masonic lodge, a common-district school, and a cemetery.
Prairie View, TX
Authorized by the Texas legislature in 1876 as the "Agricultural and Mechanical College for Colored Youth," this land-grant school opened in 1878 on a 1,434-acre former slave plantation, making it Texas's second state college. After an early closure it reorganized as a normal institute to train Black teachers, then grew steadily into a full college by the 1930s. Integrated in the 1960s, it took its present name, Prairie View A&M University, in 1973.
Briggs, TX
Before there was a church here, Burnet County pioneers gathered to worship in the Gum Springs Schoolhouse — until 1892, when Stephen Taylor deeded this land for a church and burial ground. The earliest documented grave belongs to Scottish immigrant James Smith, and around him rest pioneer settlers, many infants and children, and veterans of every American war from the Civil War through Korea. Though the congregation later dissolved and its building was carted off to Lampasas, a local association has tended the graves since 1977.
Trinity County, TX
On the Nogalus Prairie, early Methodist families began gathering for worship in the 1880s, raising their first sanctuary in 1883 on land whose owner reserved two acres for the church. Baptists shared the site, and the two congregations built brush arbors for revivals, baptized in nearby creeks, and spread Sunday lunches beneath the pines. Members later donated cows to be sold for lumber to build anew, and the congregation raised its present church in the 1950s.
Plainview, TX
The Prairieview community grew from a scattering of late-19th-century farms and ranches, its first school opened by Miss Alice Rosser in a brush arbor at Mapes in 1889. A one-room building on land bought from W.G. Williams soon doubled as school, church, and gathering place, and in 1892 the settlement took the name Prairieview; the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1906 finally connected its farmers and ranchers to wider markets.
Prairieville, TX
Prairieville was founded within the Mercer Colony land grant by Norwegian colonizer Johan Reinert Reiersen, who had already established an earlier settlement before putting down roots here in 1847. Elise Tvede Waerenskjold, Reiersen's collaborator on the promotional magazine 'Norway and Texas,' kept writing for Norwegian journals and helped spur a steady stream of immigrants across the ocean. By 1857 some eighty Norwegians lived here alongside Anglo-Americans, Danes, Germans, Swedes, and French—a genuinely polyglot prairie community complete with a church, hotel, post office, and stage stops.
Beaumont, TX
Prater Cemetery grew from a family burial ground that Edwin Prater formalized in 1894, buying a half-acre from his daughter and son-in-law to serve his descendants 'forever'—though travelers who died passing through had already been laid to rest there, and his infant granddaughter Seawillow Ballard was buried in 1888. Used chiefly by the Prater, Collier, Ballard, and Odom families, it holds Confederate veterans among its graves, including a ferry operator on the Neches River. Overgrown and nearly forgotten, it was rediscovered in 1968 and cleaned up by a Beaumont Boy Scout troop in 1976.
Deer Park, TX
This pin-connected truss bridge is the last in Texas built by Iowa's Clinton Bridge and Iron Company, first opened in 1891 over the Leon River in what became Mother Neff State Park. Relocated a few miles in the mid-twentieth century, it could no longer bear modern traffic by 1993. Rather than scrap it, transportation and preservation officials moved the span more than 150 miles to this site.
Longview, TX
Established near Longview's original townsite in the 1880s, this African American neighborhood took the name Preachers Hill when Bethel Temple Church was founded in 1920, reflecting the many pastors — women as well as men — who lived there. Family tradition holds that Ella Jacob Cotton Loyd built her home on Clark Street in 1889 and became matriarch of a community of about thirty families. Open fields, a nearby creek, and a cluster of churches and businesses made the hill a self-sustaining center of Black life in East Texas.
Seabrook, TX
For centuries, Native peoples harvested rangia clams from Galveston Bay and discarded the shells here, building up a "shell midden" that eventually grew large enough to serve as the foundation for a substantial campsite. Stone tools and pottery found in the mound reveal later occupation, and while the earliest inhabitants can't be named, both the Orcoquisac and Karankawa are known to have lived in the area in historic times. Storms, erosion, and shell mining have destroyed most such sites, making this one of Harris County's best surviving examples.
Sealy, TX
German immigrant Adolph Preibisch reached Austin County in 1860 and, after the railroad town of Sealy grew up, hired mason John Colleton to build this brick commercial block in 1886-1887 from local Brazos River clay. Preibisch sold furniture and household goods — and, like many early dealers, made and sold funeral caskets. Over the decades the building housed a grocery, jeweler, and even a saloon-pool hall called "My Place" used in early films, staying in the family until 1946.
Hamilton, TX
Organized in September 1880 by traveling evangelist John A. McMurray, this Presbyterian congregation built the first frame church in Hamilton, a young Central Texas town. Generous with its space, the church hosted other faiths on Sunday evenings for years. In 1947 the original 1880s building was moved intact from South College Avenue and incorporated into a new structure.
Jefferson, TX
Built in 1872 for an already-established congregation, this Jefferson church was once the largest Cumberland Presbyterian building in Texas—fitting for what was then a thriving riverport town in the state's northeast. Its distinctive steeple carries painted clock faces marking the hours for Sunday school and morning and evening worship, alongside a specially cast bell. The building reflects the wealth and ambition of Jefferson during its commercial heyday.