15,117 markers in the database — showing 11,401–11,460.
Scatter Branch, TX
Scatter Branch Church is an unusual experiment in cooperation: a single meetinghouse owned jointly by Methodist and Baptist congregations who share communion, Sunday School, upkeep, and alternate their pastors' Sundays. The partnership began in 1893, and the congregations moved to this site and raised the present building in 1927. Its name comes from the local creek that spreads across the countryside in flood season.
El Paso, TX
El Paso boosters dreamed as early as 1881 of a road along the Franklin Mountains offering a grand view of the valley below. The automobile made it possible, and in 1920 the city built the winding Scenic Drive, which climbs to 4,222 feet — some 500 feet above the Rio Grande. Widened and paved in the 1930s, with culvert work by a Civilian Conservation Corps company from Fort Bliss, it remains a favorite lookout over El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, and the Chihuahuan Desert.
Helotes, TX
This corridor of the Scenic Loop, Boerne Stage, and Toutant-Beauregard roads carries more than ten thousand years of history: burned-rock middens and stone tools mark Paleo-Indian life here, and Jumano, Coahuiltecan, later Lipan Apache and Comanche peoples held the land into the mid-1800s. Prussian settlers arrived at Leon Springs in 1851 near the Boerne Stage Road, which ran from San Antonio toward California; the Great Western Cattle Trail and, in the 1920s, the transcontinental Old Spanish Trail highway followed the same route. A 46-mile scenic loop laid out in the late 1920s survives in part today through Helotes, Grey Forest, and Leon Springs.
Grey Forest, TX
In 1929 businessman E.N. Requa laid out Scenic Loop Playground on 320 acres north of San Antonio as a rural retreat for middle-class city workers, offering swimming lakes, bridle trails, and live-oak groves draped in Spanish moss. The Depression slowed lot sales and shifted the resort toward year-round living, and by 1962 the former playground had incorporated as the City of Grey Forest. Many of its buildings were made from native stone and timber.
Schertz, TX
Schertz began in the 1840s when German immigrants from the New Braunfels area spread out in search of good farmland along Cibolo Creek. The community lived by agriculture until the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railroad arrived about 1877, linking it to San Antonio and wider markets. Once known as Cibolo Pit and Cutoff, the town took the name Schertz — for early settler Sebastian Schertz — when its post office opened in 1882.
Plainview, TX
Businessman Levi Schick opened his opera house in this Plainview building in 1909, launching it with a touring company's performance of "Little Dollie Dimples." With fine acoustics and seating for some 900, it hosted vaudeville, plays, musical programs, and civic gatherings, serving as the cultural heart of the area. Its era faded around 1920 as motion pictures drew away the crowds.
Round Top, TX
When Congress began taxing imported cigars in 1862 to help pay for the Civil War, it accidentally seeded a domestic cigar boom — and in 1882 Charles Schiege Jr. joined it, raising a one-room frame factory here beneath a sign reading "Segars & Tobaccos." His workers rolled cigars by hand from mostly American tobacco, sold under labels like "Texas Star." The little factory kept rolling until Schiege closed it in 1932.
Round Top, TX
Around 1882, German immigrant Charles Schiege opened a cigar factory at Round Top, staffing it largely with single men who slept in the building's attic. For his factory manager — usually a married man — Schiege built this modest German vernacular cottage. Among its early residents was manager Paul Herman Helmecke, who lived here with his wife Martha and their five children in the 1880s and 1890s, part of the close-knit German community that shaped this corner of Fayette County.
Round Top, TX
Prussian immigrants Charles and Caroline Schiege acquired land in this German-settled corner of Fayette County in 1861. Their only surviving child, Charles Henry Jr., built a two-story home here about 1885 and, after being widowed, raised ten children with his second wife. Beyond farming, he ran a local cigar factory and served Round Top as justice of the peace, mayor, marshal, and alderman.
Eldorado, TX
Schleicher County was created in 1887 from Crockett County but not formally organized until 1901, a common gap in thinly settled West Texas. It honors Gustav Schleicher, a German immigrant who became a pioneer settler, a Texas legislator, and a member of the U.S. Congress. Eldorado became the county seat, and the county baled its first cotton in 1904.
Eldorado, TX
Completed in 1923-24 to replace an earlier courthouse that burned in 1917, this three-story Classical Revival building was designed by the noted San Antonio architect Henry T. Phelps. Four half-round Doric columns support a grand entablature, and the walls were raised from native stone quarried nearby. For a century it has anchored civic life in Eldorado and Schleicher County.
Cuero, TX
Born in Posen, Germany, in 1863, Charles A. Schlinke immigrated to Texas as a boy and grew into one of DeWitt County's leading citizens. He built up thousands of acres, raised horses and mules for market, became a U.S. citizen in 1893, and repeatedly gave of his own land — for a schoolhouse, for a public road he had first protested, and for a park honoring his late wife. A founding member of the Lindenau shooting club, he was remembered at his death in 1940 as a man devoted to family, community, and church.
Houston, TX
This family burial ground marks the homestead of Johann Schlobohm (1807–1882), a Hanover-born German immigrant who enlisted in New Orleans in 1836 and reached Texas in time to help guard the captured General Santa Anna after the Battle of San Jacinto. After further service in the Texian army, he married Charlotte Caroline Kleibrink in 1850 and in 1856 bought 82 acres along Greens Bayou, where the cemetery began with his daughter Fredericka's burial in 1873. At least ten veterans rest here—spanning the Texas Revolution, the Confederacy, and both world wars—among generations of Schlobohm descendants who still tend the graves.
Jefferson, TX
Built in 1856 by F. A. Schluter, one of Jefferson's first six settlers, this gracious home rose in what was then one of Texas's busiest inland ports on the Big Cypress waterway. Its spacious halls and wide galleries reflect the prosperity of a river town at its antebellum height. As a founder's residence, it embodies the early ambitions of a community that briefly rivaled the state's leading cities.
Brenham, TX
Swiss immigrant Josef Schmid opened a Brenham mercantile in 1880 and, joined by his brothers Benjamin and Sigmund, formed Schmid Bros. in 1889. At the turn of the century the brothers raised this handsome Renaissance Revival building — round-arched windows, hood moldings, and multi-bay fronts on both floors — to house their growing enterprise, a fixture of the downtown even after the family sold it in 1934.
Fredericksburg, TX
Ludwig Schmidt raised this two-story stone building in the German colony town of Fredericksburg in the 1860s to serve as a hotel. Leased to Louis Dietz in the 1890s, it operated as the Central and then Dietz Hotel before merchant Charles Schwarz bought it in 1899 for a store. Over the decades it also held a saloon, a drugstore, and the offices of doctors and lawyers — a one-building record of a Hill Country town's commercial life.
Fredericksburg, TX
German stonemason Lorenz Schmidt, a pioneer of the Adelsverein colony that founded Fredericksburg, built this house in the 1860s; he was also among the builders of the town's landmark Vereins Kirche. In 1902 businessman Jacob Gold, Sr. — founder of the Rheingold community — raised it to two full stories. Its stonework and design reflect the craftsmanship the German immigrants carried to the Texas Hill Country.
Bandera, TX
Built in the 1870s of local limestone by a Georgia stonemason, this Greek Revival–tinged house belonged to Charles F. Schmidtke, a German immigrant who helped power early Bandera as a merchant, grist miller, and lumberman. Decades later it passed to the Callahan family, whose feed and poultry business anchored the town, and it stayed in their hands into the 1970s.
Austin, TX
Around 1860 Jean Schneider built a stone structure at Guadalupe and Live Oak (later 2nd) streets in Austin, meaning to open a brewery, but his death in 1862 ended those plans. His widow and son opened a store there around 1870, using a stone "vault" from the foundation for storage, then built a new store across the street in 1873 linked by an underground tunnel. Though the original store is gone, that buried vault survives.
Fredericksburg, TX
German craftsmen gave the Texas Hill Country its distinctive look, and this Fredericksburg home carries that heritage in its fachwerk construction—a timber frame with masonry infill brought from the old country. Built around 1870 for a watchmaker and stonemason, it later belonged to a builder and, from the 1920s, to a banker whose family kept it for more than fifty years.
Garden Ridge, TX
Built in 1872, the Schoenthal School survives inside a later structure as a late example of German fachwerk, the timber-framed building style the region's German immigrants carried from the old country. Its exposed frame is a tangible link to the craftsmen who settled Comal County and built in the ways they knew.
Lometa, TX
From about 1912 to 1920, the Scholten Brothers Cedar Company ran a 25-mile narrow-gauge railroad from Lometa into San Saba County, built by Dutch immigrants Edward and Alfred Scholten. The little line hauled cedar posts and piling to the Santa Fe main line at Lometa, feeding the fencing and construction needs of a fast-growing West Texas. At its height the operation employed some 500 workers, with headquarters just west of this spot.
Austin, TX
German immigrant August Scholz opened his hall on this site in 1866, and around the turn of the century the present building replaced the original. In 1908 the Austin Saengerrunde, a German singing society, bought the property and added an adjacent hall. Long a gathering place celebrated for its German heritage, Scholz Garten was honored by the Texas Legislature in 1966.
Lampasas, TX
School Creek Baptist Church, named for a nearby stream, organized in 1879 and held its first service that November in a small schoolhouse, with the Rev. L.R. Millican as its founding pastor. The Philip Smith family donated land for a permanent sanctuary completed in 1901, and the congregation steadily added buildings over the next century. Long devoted to children's ministry and mission work, it remains an active presence in central Texas.
Kerrville, TX
Kerrville's dream of a college took shape when rancher and businessman Charles Schreiner pledged 140 acres and a major endowment to the Presbyterian Synod of Texas, a plan delayed by World War I before the school finally opened in 1923. Blending military discipline with religious and general education, the institute admitted girls as day students in 1932 and sent many students and faculty into service during World War II, when a naval flight school operated on campus and sixty-six alumni died in the war. Military training became optional in 1957 and ended in 1971, and the school grew into a four-year college by 1984.
Junction, TX
Long a favorite spot for picnics, political rallies, and gatherings—with a large rock serving as a natural podium—this land was formally deeded to the people of Junction by Capt. Charles Schreiner in 1916. When Confederate veterans gathered here in 1908, floodwaters on the Llano River forced organizers to ferry visitors across by an improvised aerial tramway for three days. Schreiner, born in France in 1838, made his fortune pioneering banking, the mohair trade, and a sprawling general store.
Round Top, TX
Built in 1852, this home was modeled on the Saxony house of its builder, immigrant Carl Siegismunde Bauer, and raised for his daughter and her husband, Conrad Schueddemagen. Its steep roof and two-foot native limestone walls, plastered inside and out, along with cedar ceilings, floors, and mantels, reflect the Old World building traditions the German settlers carried to Central Texas.
Dunlay, TX
German immigrant Henry Schuehle built this one-and-a-half-story limestone cottage in 1850 on land he bought in Medina County. In 1900 it passed to the Saathoff family, who had come to Texas from Germany in 1846 and helped found the nearby settlement of Quihi, and who lived here for about 75 years while active in public education. Its native-stone construction reflects the practical building traditions the German settlers carried to the Texas Hill Country frontier.
Brenham, TX
Blacksmith and hardware merchant Frederick William Schuerenberg, II, and his wife Bertha Reichardt raised their family in this 1895 house, an exuberant Queen Anne built by local contractor Alex Griffin. Its seven-bay wraparound porch, ornate woodwork, and corner turret made it a showpiece, and it stayed in the family until 1993.
Schulenburg, TX
When the Galveston, Houston & San Antonio Railway reached this spot in 1873, German and Czech settlers from nearby Lyons and High Hill moved to the new townsite at the edge of Fayette County's rolling hills. Named for landowner Louis Schulenburg, the town incorporated in 1875. It became a gateway community shaped by the immigrant cultures that settled central Texas.
Schulenburg, TX
Organized about 1871 as the High Hill Missionary Baptist Church, this congregation first met in a building whose lumber was hauled to the site by oxen. In 1873, just before the railroad arrived and gave rise to Schulenburg, the structure was rolled overland on logs to this new location. Shared for decades by several faiths as a "Union Church," it was reorganized in 1927 as First Baptist Church.
Irving, TX
In 1912 Charles P. Schulze hired builder A. Fred Joffre to raise this one-story, cypress-clad bungalow for himself and his wife, Virginia Tucker. Schulze owned and ran the Irving Lumber Company and was the brother of Irving co-founder J. O. Schulze. With its low hipped roof, broad eaves, and gabled dormer, the home stayed in the family until 1975.
San Antonio, TX
German craftsman Carl Schulze arrived in San Antonio in the late 1880s and, with his brother Otto, became one of the city's busy homebuilders during a boom era. Around 1891 he built this house for himself and his wife Agathe, later remodeling it in an eclectic mix of styles with fine Eastlake millwork on the front gable. A later owner, Fritz Schilo, would in 1917 open Schilo's delicatessen — an institution that outlived the house's residential days.
Hunt, TX
Christian Schumacher came from Germany to Texas as an infant in 1845 and reached Kerr County in 1880, settling along the Guadalupe River near the site of an antebellum sawmill run by the Tegener brothers. In the 1920s his son John Randolph Schumacher built a series of river dams that tamed the floodwaters and secured a stream crossing and new road to Hunt. Those dams still stand, and an improved highway bridge now carries traffic over a crossing prized for its scenery and river access.
McQueeney, TX
German immigrant August Wilhelm Schumann reached Texas with his family in 1846 and bought a large tract in Guadalupe County, soon selling nearby land to a wagon train of countrymen he happened to meet. The settlers built their homes close together behind a communal fence to guard their crops, and the place became known as Schumannsville. The cemetery on Schumann's land opened in 1853 with the yellow-fever death of Carl Blumberg, and its tombstones—most bearing German inscriptions—still testify to the community's heritage.
Freeport, TX
Built in 1917 on part of the Freeport town site, the Schuster home was raised largely by George Schuster's carpenter sons on heavy cedar blocks, with a wraparound porch, tapered columns, and milled cypress walls that made it one of Freeport's first and finest wooden houses. Family members lived in it for generations, keeping much of the original furniture in place. In 2003 the Schuster descendants formed a corporation and entrusted the house to a historical society, which restored it over a decade and opened it to the public as a museum.
San Angelo, TX
These three Victorian commercial buildings went up during San Angelo's economic boom of the 1880s, among the first permanent structures in a town fast becoming the region's trading hub. The San Angelo National Bank refaced an existing building in 1884 with local sandstone and an ornate cornice, while grocers Louis Schwartz and Joseph Raas hired noted architect Oscar Ruffini to design a stone-and-iron storefront in 1885. Later homes to everything from rival grocers to the Roxy Theatre, they chart the commercial rise of West Texas.
Uvalde, TX
Built in 1927 for local merchant and city alderman Lee Schwartz and his wife Agnes, this modest colonial revival home was designed by San Antonio architect Will A. Noonan and raised on land once owned by Mrs. Schwartz's mother, over the site of an earlier house. Its pedimented entry, sidelit door, and grouped multi-light windows are hallmarks of the restrained revival styling popular in prosperous small Texas towns of the era. It was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1997.
Fredericksburg, TX
Built of local limestone in 1907 by merchant Charles Schwarz and his wife Mary, this Fredericksburg building followed the practical Hill Country pattern of a store below and family living quarters above. Its ground floor held Schwarz's general merchandise and dry goods store, and over the years it also sheltered youth groups and a veterans' organization.
Cross Roads, TX
In 1846 settlers from Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana founded Science Hill, hoping to make it a cultural and educational hub for Henderson County. The 1850s brought mills, gins, stores, a Methodist church, and a Masonic lodge, and in 1858 the Science Hill Academy opened as the county's first school of higher learning, teaching Latin, Greek, logic, and natural science under principal A. J. Fowler. The hardships of the Civil War and Reconstruction drained the community; the academy closed in 1872, the lodge surrendered its charter, and Science Hill faded into a ghost town.
Temple, TX
Temple was born as a railroad town in 1881, and by 1891 the Santa Fe had planted a hospital there to care for its workers. Two surgeons, Arthur C. Scott and Raleigh R. White, joined forces in a private partnership in 1897 and in 1904 opened the Temple Sanitarium, later renamed Scott & White. From those railroad-medicine roots it grew into one of the nation's largest group practices and a hub of medical training and research.
Kerrville, TX
Whitfield Scott Schreiner and his wife Josephine built their lives on Kerrville's Water Street in a home designed by noted San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres. Scott led the family's Chas. Schreiner Co., the chamber of commerce, and the local telephone company, and the municipal golf course still carries his name. Josephine, trained in music at the Cincinnati Conservatory, founded the Kerrville Garden Club and was active in civic and women's organizations across the region.
Belton, TX
Doctors Arthur C. Scott and Raleigh White Jr. founded this nursing school in 1904 as part of their Temple Sanitarium, first teaching a handful of students in a former Catholic convent. Grounded in the philosophy of Florence Nightingale, the program grew into one of the nation's top-ranked schools by 1949 before its diploma program phased out in favor of a baccalaureate degree. Over 66 years it graduated 1,233 nurses who served in health care worldwide.
McKinney, TX
Scott Cemetery began in the 1850s on the land of pioneer James Preston Scott, whose two-year-old granddaughter, Mary C. Taylor, was the first person buried here. Among its more than 200 graves — at least 30 of them unmarked — are two enslaved people, Jake and Rhoda, laid to rest in the northwest corner. Scott himself, who died while serving in the Texas Legislature, was buried here in 1858, and the ground still serves the surrounding rural communities.
Texarkana, TX
Scott Joplin was born near this spot in Texarkana around 1868, the son of a formerly enslaved fiddler and a banjo-playing mother, and got his early schooling and music lessons here before leaving home at fourteen. Wandering through the Midwest's saloons, he became one of the creators of ragtime, a syncopated new music blending Black and white traditions. His 1899 "Maple Leaf Rag" turned ragtime into a national craze, and he composed more than thirty piano rags and the folk opera "Treemonisha" before dying in 1917 — decades before a 1970s revival crowned him a genius.
Paris, TX
Built between 1908 and 1910 for the family of prominent businessman Rufus Fenner Scott Sr., this Paris landmark was designed by German-born architect J. L. Wees, who shaped many of the town's civic and commercial buildings. The mansion blends Art Nouveau and Dutch Renaissance styling and famously survived the devastating Paris fire of 1916.
Melissa, TX
This L-plan Victorian dwelling went up around the 1870s, as the young town of Melissa was taking root in the Blackland Prairie of North Texas. Merchant Louis A. Scott and his wife Louise bought it in 1880, and after 1903 it passed to the Barker family, whose daughters lived here for 85 years. When a devastating tornado tore through Melissa in 1921, the sturdy house lost only a chimney—a small testament to its solid construction and its distinctive dormers and Mansard-type roofs.
Hillsboro, TX
This burial ground served the vanished community of Scott's Chapel, tied to the family of James Williams Scott, a signer of the Goliad Declaration of Independence who came to Texas in 1831. His sons gave land for a school, church, and, in 1860, this cemetery. Among those resting here is Samuel McFall, a survivor of the deadly Black Bean Episode of the 1842–43 Mier Expedition.
San Antonio, TX
Scottish Rite Masonry took hold in San Antonio in 1912 and swelled during World War I as soldiers stationed nearby joined the fraternity. The order bought this site in 1919 and, beginning in 1922, raised a monumental Classical Revival temple, dedicating it in 1924 at a cost of $1.5 million. Its eight fluted Corinthian columns and sculpted bronze doors — the work of noted artist Pompeo Coppini, depicting fellow Masons George Washington and Sam Houston — made it a South Texas landmark, and in recent decades it has become a hub for the performing arts.
Galveston, TX
Galveston's Scottish Rite Masonry took shape in 1867 when Philip C. Tucker read the charter establishing the San Felipe Lodge of Perfection, named for the old capital of Texas's first Anglo-American colony. Over the following decades the fraternity grew, adding a Rose Croix chapter, a Council of Kadosh, and the Texas Consistory No. 1 by the turn of the century. The order's imposing cathedral was dedicated in 1929.
Austin, TX
Built in 1871-72 as an opera house by the Austin Turn Verein, a German social society, this hall long served as a center for gymnastics, feasting, and dancing. Purchased in 1912 for the Ben Hur Shrine Temple, it was remodeled in a blend of Southwestern, Mission, and Arabic-accented styles. In 1914 it passed to the Scottish Rite bodies of Austin, who still host other Masonic groups there.
Cisco, TX
Settled in the 1870s, Scranton grew into a full community with a post office, stores, cotton gin, blacksmith, school, and academy. In 1896 Joseph Jackson Ray and his wife Sarah donated land for a Baptist church and graveyard, though the first burial — an infant of the Sprawls family — had already taken place that July. A cemetery association formed in 1968, and the nearby community center still hosts services and an annual homecoming. Veterans from the Civil War onward lie here alongside the settlement's pioneers, educators, and officials.
Denton, TX
The oldest part of this Denton house was built in 1885–86 for grocer Robert C. Scripture and his wife Annie, then later owned by merchant Robert Hann. Around 1912, under banker B. H. Deavenport, the Victorian residence was enlarged and remodeled in Mission Revival style by local contractor M. B. Whitlock, gaining its distinctive third-floor rose window.
Groveton, TX
After the Civil War, farming families drifted into this corner of Trinity County, founding the small communities of Scrub Creek and Crecy around a Baptist church, a general-store post office, and a school. Documented from 1877, the Scrub Creek School began as a single room with one teacher for all grades and grew to a three-room building as the population rose. For decades the schoolhouse doubled as the social heart of the community until consolidation closed it in 1935.
Clifton, TX
Set on two acres of an 1846 land survey, this cemetery was deeded to Bosque County for public burials by Lowry Hampton Scrutchfield in 1883. Family tradition holds that an infant, Minnie Henderson, was the first laid to rest here, though the oldest legible stone marks a six-month-old child from 1885. Scrutchfield, his wife, and his mother lie among more than fifty marked and unmarked graves of the county's early settlers.
Geneva, TX
This cemetery honors North Carolina native William Scurlock, a Texas Revolution veteran remembered as the 'Man with the Charmed Life.' He and his brother Mial settled here in 1834, enlisted the next year, and William survived the Siege of Bexar, the Matamoros Expedition, and escape from the Goliad Massacre before fighting at San Jacinto; Mial died at the Alamo. William later sat in the Republic's Congress, fought in the Mexican War, and settled here, where he lies alongside Confederate veteran W. J. Walton.
Snyder, TX
Scurry County was created in 1876 from older Texas territories and organized in 1884, with Snyder as its seat. It honors General William R. Scurry, a member of the last Congress of the Republic of Texas and a Confederate officer killed in 1864. The county's founding was part of the steady organization of West Texas as settlement pushed onto the plains.
Snyder, TX
Scurry County was created in 1876 and organized in 1884, and local landholders donated the lots at the center of town for a courthouse square built atop a former buffalo trail. Citizens themselves bought the construction bonds, and a two-story courthouse of locally made red brick went up in 1886, complete with board sidewalks, a chain hitching rail, and a public windmill that served as the town's social hub. The present courthouse replaced it in 1909–11, and the old precinct boundaries laid out along the lanes approaching the square are still in use.
Snyder, TX
By 1911 Scurry County's two earlier jails, built in 1884 and 1886, had proven too small, so the commissioners court used bond money to purchase this site and raise a sturdy brick building, finished with local labor in 1912. The jailer and his family lived on the first floor, while prisoner cells and even a small hospital occupied the upper two stories. A grim feature set into the design was a trapdoor meant to serve as a hanging gallows. The jail did its duty for more than sixty years.
Snyder, TX
Scurry County's oil story began with shallow San Andres wells in 1923, but the great boom came in late 1948 when deep rigs struck the Canyon Reef Formation below 6,000 feet. Wildcat wells from Sun, Magnolia, Standard, and Lion outlined an 85,000-acre field holding an estimated four billion barrels, and the strike transformed the fortunes of drought-weary farmers and ranchers. On October 8, 1973 — twenty-five years on — the field yielded its billionth barrel from the well beside this marker, celebrated in a week of festivities.