15,117 markers in the database — showing 1,801–1,860.
Terrell, TX
When Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy was seeding public libraries across America, the women's clubs of Terrell secured a grant to bring one to their North Texas town, opening this classically detailed building in 1904. It rose on land once owned by local publisher O. B. Colquitt, who would go on to serve as governor of Texas, and was designed by the Waco firm of Messer and Smith. The city funded operations while Carnegie money paid for the building itself.
Terrell, TX
Opened in 1904 through the determined efforts of local women's clubs and a building grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, this was the only library in Kaufman County. It became a hub of community life, hosting early civic functions and serving as an information center for students from five area colleges. Its shelves grew to hold more than 14,000 volumes.
Beaumont, TX
Caroline "Carrie" Gilbert Hinchee (1863–1913), a Beaumont-born artist and teacher trained at leading institutions, married businessman Martin Luther Hinchee in 1900 and drew wealth from her family's Gilbert Oil Company. In 1906 she built this elaborate Queen Anne residence, designed by architect Henry C. Mauer, with a tiled roof, wraparound veranda, stained glass, a glass conservatory, and one of the city's first residential elevators. A civic leader and DAR charter member, she made the home a symbol of turn-of-the-century Beaumont.
Arlington, TX
This 1966 state marker recalls the carousel's heyday in Texas, when traveling shows and carnivals brought the ornate, horse-drawn rides from town to town. The arrival of a carousel was a genuine event, its calliope music helping celebrate townsite openings, finished railroads, and boom-town milestones. It commemorates a shared piece of popular culture rather than a single site.
Denison, TX
Completed in 1910, this span across the Red River was first built as a railroad bridge for the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Line, which needed a Grayson County connection to win better freight rates for Oklahoma coal. Engineered to survive the kind of flood that had wrecked area bridges in 1908, it also carried a "wagon shelf" so toll-paying pedestrians, riders, and horse-drawn vehicles could cross alongside the trains. After the railway ceased Texas operations in 1965, the counties converted it to a free public roadway that still links Texas and Oklahoma.
Sherman, TX
Prosperous farmer and landowner Richard Bell Carr and his wife Susan moved into Sherman from the surrounding countryside and hired the respected contractor J. R. Barrow to design this dignified residence in 1902. Their daughter Susiebel was married in its front parlor in 1915, and the couple went on to inherit and enlarge the home. It was recognized as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1978.
Columbus, TX
A carriage step is a low block of stone or concrete set at the curb so guests could step down gracefully from a carriage, and its presence signaled a prominent household. This one survives outside a Prairie Street home that railroad purchasing agent R.S. Stephens and his wife bought in 1879. It is the only known carriage step in Columbus, a small relic of the age of livery stables, hitching posts, and watering troughs.
Austin, TX
In 1854 the Austin merchant and land speculator L.D. Carrington bought this bluff-top property from Hannah Burnet, wife of David G. Burnet, the first president of the Republic of Texas, and made it his family farm. The house took its present vernacular form through decades of alteration — a structure of the 1880s, a 1911 remodel by owner Charles Morrison, and a second story added by Joseph O'Reilly in the 1920s and 1930s. Square porch columns and wavy glass in the front door still recall its nineteenth-century origins.
Austin, TX
Leonidas Carrington, a Mississippi merchant, came to the young capital of Austin in 1852, bought this block the next year, and opened a store on Congress Avenue. In 1856 he hired local builder John Brandon to raise this vernacular Greek Revival house of rough limestone, finished in the spring of 1857. Over the following century it served as a family home, an eye-and-ear hospital, and a boarding house before Texas acquired and restored it in the early 1970s.
Waco, TX
When Waco University merged with Baylor in 1886, the combined school's books were scattered across societies and rooms, making research a chore. Prompted by the student newspaper and led by President Oscar Cooper, Baylor created a librarian's post and, with funds donated by F.L. Carroll, opened this library in 1903 with some 18,000 volumes. Though fire gutted it in 1922, alumni rebuilt it, and it later became the home of the university's celebrated Texas Collection.
Southlake, TX
The lineage of this campus reaches back to Dove School in 1847, one of the earliest in Tarrant County, before several one-room schools merged in 1917 into a district named for county superintendent B. E. Carroll. A narrowly approved 1919 bond built the first central brick schoolhouse on a five-acre hilltop, opening with three teachers and 97 students. In 1956 residents cast the votes here that incorporated Southlake, and the building served for years as its town hall.
Athens, TX
The Carroll Springs community, named for the Carroll family and nearby springs, began burying its dead here as early as 1859, with the earliest marked grave that of John Buck Hogg. In 1884 A.M. Carroll set aside nearly five acres for a school, church, and cemetery, and generations of pioneer families, ministers, teachers, and veterans of American wars from the Civil War onward were laid to rest here. The school later consolidated into Athens, but the Methodist church endures and the community still gathers each year to remember.
Athens, TX
The Carroll Springs Methodist congregation carries a history of migration typical of rural East Texas, tracing its lineage through a chain of Henderson County churches that moved from homes to county line to New Hope, Coolsprings, and finally Carroll Springs in 1883. Guided for decades by the Rev. J. F. Lambright and later his son, its forty charter members planted a fellowship that endures. Its tradition of an August brush-arbor revival still echoes the camp-meeting roots of frontier Methodism.
Carrollton, TX
Carrollton's early African-American residents, many of them formerly enslaved, helped settle and build the town, and by 1871 a corner of farmer Scott Boswell Sr.'s land had become their community cemetery. Though it holds dozens of burials, only three names remain legible, and flooding from the Elm Fork of the Trinity River destroyed many grave markers over the years. Once threatened by development, the ground survives as one of the few tangible records of Black Carrollton's earliest generation.
Ector, TX
Local tradition holds that this Fannin County cemetery took its name from John Carson, who once owned the neighboring land, and that its earliest graves date to an 1842 Indian raid on the nearby home of Dr. W. M. Hunter. The three victims were Minerva Hunter, her young daughter Elizabeth, and an enslaved or hired African American woman whose name has been lost to record. Cemetery trustees secured title by 1878 and later added land, and Minerva Hunter's grave was finally marked in 1942, a century after her death.
Panhandle, TX
Carved out of the vast Texas Panhandle in the years after the Civil War, Carson County was created in 1876 and formally organized in 1888 as ranchers and railroad promoters pushed into the high plains. It took the name of Samuel Price Carson, who served as Secretary of State for the young Republic of Texas. The town of Panhandle became the county seat and, though it lost the great rail junction it was promised to nearby Amarillo, it endured as one of the region's early enduring towns and an early player in the oil and gas boom.
Panhandle, TX
Carson County was created on August 21, 1876, from earlier Young and Bexar territories and organized in 1888 as settlers spread across the Texas Panhandle. It honors Samuel P. Carson (1798–1840), a statesman of both the United States and the Republic of Texas. Wheat farming and later oil and gas made the high-plains county prosperous, with the town of Panhandle as its seat.
Canton, TX
Among the first families to settle this stretch of Van Zandt County around 1851, the Carters put down roots that would outlast them in the ground they set aside for burial. Oral tradition remembers a young Carter son as the first laid to rest here, though the oldest documented grave dates to 1859. The family later deeded the land as a public cemetery, and a local association has cared for it since the 1960s.
Fairfield, TX
Built in 1845 as Texas was joining the Union, this log house was raised by David L. Carter, an Alabama emigrant, using tongue-and-groove logs pinned with wood and square-nailed rafters — flooring and ceiling materials hauled seventy miles by ox-wagon. Carter later served in the Confederate Army and helped found Woodland Boys' College. Its careful joinery makes it a fine surviving example of pioneer craftsmanship in early Texas.
College Station, TX
A Virginia native and War of 1812 veteran, Richard Carter came from Alabama in 1831 to claim land in Stephen F. Austin's colony, on ground that is now College Station. He grew into one of the area's wealthiest landowners and enslavers, raising cattle, corn, and cotton in the years before the Civil War. Named to Brazos County's first Board of Commissioners in 1841, he helped survey its first county seat at Boonville, and traces of his home and family cemetery survive nearby.
Springtown, TX
Founded in 1866 by a judge and two partners, Cartersville grew into a bustling community with two main streets, a school, two churches, and mills and gins serving area farmers. A post office opened in 1867 and the town was renamed Carter in 1888. By the early 1900s it had begun to fade, and little remains today.
Carthage, TX
In 1907 twelve Carthage women, among them Margie Neal—later the first woman elected to the Texas Senate—founded the Circulating Book Club to promote literacy alongside civic improvement. Their projects reshaped the town: the first sidewalk linking downtown to the Santa Fe Railway, a clubhouse and ladies' restroom serving rural women in town on business, a public library, and a Red Cross workroom staffed through both World Wars. The club still advances the community's civic, social, and literary life.
Terrell, TX
This Victorian residence went up in 1883 for Matthew Cartwright (1855–1925), a third-generation Texan who was a rancher, banker, and civic leader, and his wife Mary Cynthia Davenport. One of the first large homes in Terrell, it was enlarged in 1893 to accommodate a household of ten children and a steady stream of visiting artists and statesmen. It reflects the prosperity of a leading family in a growing North Texas town.
Wills Point, TX
Wills Point made provisions for its first African American public school around 1878, and despite chronic underfunding it drew certified Black teachers who taught children by day and their parents by night. In 1930 it was named for principal Robert L. Cartwright, and a new building rose with land and labor from the local Black community and a grant from the Rosenwald Foundation. Extended to a twelfth grade and accredited by 1949, the school graduated its last class in 1965 as integration arrived.
Dallas, TX
In the early 1860s, pioneer settlers William and Mattie Worthington Caruth established this cemetery on their North Texas plantation lands. Across the road stood Caruth Chapel, where circuit-riding preachers held baptisms, weddings, and funerals for the plantation's tenants and neighboring families. The Caruth family donated the gravesites that anchor the ground today.
Arlington, TX
Born in Tennessee in 1843, Carver Dixon "Uncle Dutch" King came to Texas in 1873 and helped launch the new town of Arlington, serving as its first mayor after its 1876 founding. A grocer, icehouse owner, notary, and justice of the peace across thirteen terms, King wove himself into nearly every civic institution of the growing town. He died in 1930, remembered as one of Arlington's founding leaders.
Whitney, TX
This Hill County homestead traces an unusually complete arc of Texas settlement, beginning with an 1838 headright land grant to Mary Beacham and a two-room log cabin raised by Eliphas Spencer in 1845 under the wary protection of nearby Fort Graham. Passing through a line of determined women and the Carver family, the cabin was absorbed into a Victorian house in 1875 and finally crowned with a Neoclassical second story in 1912. Its surviving carriage house, smokehouse, and other outbuildings preserve the working texture of a frontier property that endured wars, droughts, and even a 1971 tornado.
Brackettville, TX
After the Army disbanded Fort Clark's Seminole-Negro Indian Scout Detachment in 1914, the Seminole families relocated to Brackettville, where in 1919 the school district bought land for a "colored school." A two-story 1870 limestone homestead became the George Washington Carver School, once the only accredited Black school between San Antonio and El Paso. The grounds later passed to the Seminole community and remain a cultural center for Juneteenth and Seminole Day gatherings.
Robert Lee, TX
Cary Allen Gates was born in Kentucky in 1836, came to Collin County, Texas, in 1858, and enlisted in the Confederate army at McKinney in 1861. He saw hard service — the Battle of Chickamauga, an injury at Murfreesboro, and a wound through the wrist at Spanish Fort, Alabama — before returning to civilian life, raising a large family, and settling in Coke County in 1906, where he lived until 1927. His long life bridged the frontier settlement of Texas and the early twentieth century.
Floresville, TX
This was the home of Erasmo Seguín, a leading figure in the transition of Texas from Spanish and Mexican rule toward its own independent identity. In 1821 he formally welcomed Stephen F. Austin, opening the door to Anglo-American colonization, and he later represented Texas in the Mexican Congress and pushed early on for self-government. From this house on the Wilson County frontier, a Tejano statesman helped shape the political ground on which Texas would be built.
Banquete, TX
Granted by the Spanish crown in 1798 to Juan Jose de la Garza Montemayor and his three sons, the Casa Blanca grant was the first Spanish land grant in what is now Nueces County, a vast tract of some 70,848 acres between Penitas Creek and the Nueces River. The Montemayor family built a ranch that held the land through decades of frontier conflict until it was sold in 1849, and part later passed to cattle baron Richard King. Oil was eventually discovered on the former grant, and its lands now span two counties.
Liberty, TX
When Mexico opened its Texas frontier to settlers, land commissioner J. Francisco Madero platted this square in 1831 as the public heart of a new town on the Atascosito lands. Colonists narrowly chose Smith's Plantation — soon renamed Liberty — over Moss Bluff, and from a 22-foot log courthouse they exercised a rare gift of local self-government. Sam Houston later argued cases here, and David G. Burnet's appeal of a verdict tried in Liberty carried him to the 1836 convention that made him the Republic of Texas's first president.
McAllen, TX
Where a city park once kept antelope, javelina, and deer, McAllen's boosters built the Casa de Palmas in 1918—a three-story, red-tile-roofed hotel with twin towers around a central patio, meant to be the young town's business and social hub. It sheltered residents through the devastating 1919 hurricane and, after a 1973 fire, was rebuilt faithfully in its original Spanish style.
Laredo, TX
Casa Ortiz stands on land granted by the King of Spain to Don José Reyes Ortiz, a merchant who served as a go-between for trade linking Mexico and Texas. The house sheltered five generations of the Ortiz family and was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1964. Its story reaches back to Laredo's Spanish colonial origins, when the town was a frontier settlement on the northern edge of New Spain.
Socorro, TX
Tradition holds that this thick-walled adobe near Socorro was built before 1800, in the era of New Spain's far northern frontier. By the 1840s it belonged to José Ortiz, a 'Comanchero' whose ox-cart trains hauled salt from the Guadalupe Mountains and carried goods to Santa Fe and out onto the Llano Estacado, where he traded with the Comanches for buffalo hides and meat. With its cottonwood and willow vigas and earthen roof, the house is a fine surviving example of Spanish colonial frontier building.
Laredo, TX
Built in 1874 on land tracing back to a grant from Spain, Casa Vidaurri was raised by Santos Benavides, a prominent Laredo military and civic leader of the era. Sold within the family to Eulalio Benavides in 1883, the house has remained in the hands of the Benavides descendants ever since. Its recognition as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964 honors both the building and the deep-rooted borderland family it sheltered.
Ozona, TX
Joseph L. Casbeer, born in Lamar County, served the Confederacy in Company G of Col. R. T. P. Allen's Texas Infantry, mustering out at the war's end in 1865. He married Matilda Peacock in Lampasas County in 1871, raised two sons, and in 1898 moved west to Ozona in the ranching country of Crockett County. His grave marker records a life carried from the Civil War into the settlement of far West Texas.
Boerne, TX
Likely carved during the Pleistocene by the underground Cibolo River, Cascade Cavern near Boerne holds a rich mix of geology, wildlife, and human history. Archeological evidence points to two Indian sites, and soot on a natural chimney suggests Native peoples once sheltered and built fires within. Commercially developed from the 1930s and renamed in a 1932 ceremony led by future governor James V. Allred, the cave long drew visitors to its seven waterfalls.
Wichita Falls, TX
Wichita County built this one-room schoolhouse in 1902 on land donated by H.F. Knippenberg, naming it for county commissioner T.J. Cashion; it opened with a single teacher and twelve students. The 1918 discovery of oil at nearby Burkburnett sent enrollment soaring, and the school expanded through the 1920s to a peak of 286 students. When oil production fell in the mid-1930s the community declined with it, and the school closed by 1943.
Calvert, TX
Sometime after 1869, Jean Pierre Casimir, a native of Toulouse, France, built this structure in the thriving cotton town of Calvert and opened a drugstore his family would run until 1949. A rear patio linked the store to the Palace Opera House, which the Casimirs also owned and operated. For eighty years the building anchored one immigrant family's remarkable footprint on a single Texas main street.
San Antonio, TX
Organized in 1853 by San Antonio's cultured German immigrants, the Casino Association built an 1858 clubhouse with a theatre, a 700-seat hall, and banquet and club rooms. During the Civil War its stage hosted military balls, benefit concerts, and minstrel shows for the Confederate cause, while women gathered there to roll bandages. Over the decades its audiences included Robert E. Lee before the war and, later, Ulysses S. Grant and Buffalo Bill.
La Grange, TX
Built in 1880 by the Casino Association of La Grange, this handsome Italianate hall was—despite its name—a house for social and public life, not gambling, its yellow-ochre brick trimmed with iron hood moldings and a stepped cornice. It hosted music, theater, and community gatherings, and doubled as a free school; among its 1886 graduates was Annie Webb Blanton, who in 1918 became the first woman elected to Texas statewide office. Over the years it served as city hall, fire headquarters, and senior center before being restored to its original spirit of gemütlichkeit.
Houston, TX
Born in Germany and schooled in Switzerland, Caspar Braun trained as a physician, teacher, and Lutheran clergyman before being sent as a missionary to Pennsylvania in 1847. Reaching Houston in 1850, he organized the first German Evangelical Lutheran Church there the next year and became the founding president of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Texas. He and his wife Margaret raised eight children in their adopted state.
Linden, TX
Carved from Bowie County land in 1846, Cass County took its name from Lewis Cass, a soldier-statesman who had pushed hard for annexing Texas into the Union. The county's loyalties turned sharply in 1861: swept up in secession fervor, residents renamed it "Davis" for Confederate president Jefferson Davis, only to restore the original name in 1871 after the war. Its seat shifted too, from the busy river port of Jefferson to centrally located Linden once Marion County was split off in 1860.
Linden, TX
When Cass County was organized in 1846, its court met in Jefferson, but Linden became the seat in 1852 and got a frame courthouse the next year. The present brick structure was begun in 1860 and, delayed by the Civil War, was not finished until after 1865; it was enlarged twice and gained a third floor after a 1933 fire. The courthouse also marks the early careers of U.S. Congressman Wright Patman and Texas Supreme Court Justice Ralph Hicks Harvey.
Llano, TX
Businessman Tye Yates Hill raised this building in 1919 as the office of the Cassaday Grey Granite Company, named for the landowner whose ground held a prized vein of grey stone. Its mission revival styling—an "Alamotif" parapet and rounded arches—dressed up the workaday business of quarrying at the height of Llano's granite boom. The 1929 stock market crash wiped out Hill's granite venture, and the building passed to other uses; since 1967 a succession of bakeries has filled its rooms. It was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1993.
Castell, TX
In 1847 the German Emigration Company, led by Commissioner General John O. Meusebach, planted three settlements on the Fisher-Miller land grant, with colonists coming out from Fredericksburg. Castell became the company's only lasting town on the grant and the first permanent settlement in Llano County. Its sisters fared worse: Leiningen has vanished entirely, and Bettina, Texas's first communal colony, collapsed within a year when its supplies ran out.
Castell, TX
Schooling in the German settlement of Castell may reach back to 1852 by local tradition, but the written record begins in 1884, when Llano County designated it School District No. 6. The community built a two-room schoolhouse, expanded to three rooms in 1929, that taught ten grades — students finished high school in Llano, Fredericksburg, or Mason. Declining enrollment closed the school in 1948, after which the building lived on as a community center.
Fulton, TX
During the 1930s Cecil Weber Casterline opened a Fulton "fish house" on the Gulf, buying oysters, shrimp, and fish from local boats, packing the catch in barrel ice, and shipping it inland by rail to San Antonio and beyond. With his father Frank he bought the harbor property in 1944, and the family, later joined by brother Leslie after World War II, built their own fleet of boats named for relatives. For some eighty years Casterline Fish Company was a mainstay of the Coastal Bend seafood trade before its 2015 sale to Prestige Oysters.
Crane, TX
Castle Gap, a natural notch in the Castle Mountains of West Texas, has funneled travelers for millennia — from prehistoric Native peoples who left flint points, to Spanish explorers, California-bound gold-seekers, the Butterfield Overland Mail stages of 1858–1861, and the great Goodnight-Loving cattle drives after 1866. A spring within the gap made it a vital watering stop on the road to Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos.
McCamey, TX
A mile-long gap between Castle and King mountains, Castle Gap funneled nearly the whole pageant of West Texas travel through one narrow pass. Comanche war parties, the Spanish explorer Rabago y Teran, gold-rush '49ers, Butterfield Overland Mail coaches from 1858 to 1861, and the Goodnight-Loving cattle trail after 1866 all passed this way, and legend places buried Maximilian treasure nearby. Today its old coach ruts fade quietly into the desert.
Waco, TX
Platted in 1923 by W. T. Herrick and W. L. Wollett and named for the nearby Cottonland Castle, Castle Heights broke from Waco's rigid street grid with curved streets and traffic circles. Its homes showcase revival architecture — Tudor, Colonial, Georgian, Classical, and Mediterranean. For six years the neighborhood was an independent village before voting to incorporate in 1939 and being annexed by Waco in 1945.
McCamey, TX
Rising to about 3,000 feet a couple of miles east, Castle Mountain has guided travelers between Texas, Mexico, and California since the 17th century. Spaniards, tradition says, named it for its resemblance to ancient castles. Its craggy profile gathered the usual folklore of the desert Southwest—tales of lost trains of gold and buried treasure.
Merkel, TX
From 1858 to 1861 the Butterfield Overland Mail carried the first through passenger and mail service linking the Mississippi to the Pacific, and its drivers steered by this 2,400-foot peak, visible for thirty to forty miles. Then called Abercrombie Peak for a U.S. Army colonel who defended the frontier, it struck the newspaperman Waterman Ormsby — riding the first westbound Butterfield stage — as resembling a fortress. The height was later renamed Castle Peak.
River Oaks, TX
Certified as a Texas common school district in 1898, this rural school began in a small frame building on donated land and passed through several names before being renamed for Zack and Fanny Castleberry, who supplied it with well water. Through parent-teacher partnership, WPA projects, and federal aid, it steadily expanded — swelling further during World War II as families arrived at nearby Carswell Air Force Base. When Fort Worth moved to charge tuition in 1956, Castleberry became an independent district and by the late 1990s served nearly 3,000 students across seven schools.
Dimmitt, TX
Carved from earlier territories and formally organized in 1891, Castro County honors Henri Castro (1786–1861), a French-born empresario who colonized the Texas Hill Country. Castro founded Castroville, Quihi, Vandenburg, and D'Hanis in Medina County, recruiting European settlers — many Alsatian — to a raw frontier. Dimmitt serves as the county seat on the High Plains far to the north of the towns that bear his mark.
Dimmitt, TX
When Castro County was organized in 1891, the town of Dimmitt set aside this square and held court in a private office until its first courthouse rose. That ornate wooden building burned after a lightning strike in 1906, a domed brick successor served into the 1930s, and the present stone courthouse was raised in 1939 with Works Progress Administration labor.
Canadian, TX
The Cataline community took root in the Texas Panhandle before Hemphill County was even organized, its settlers raising the county's first school in 1885 and its first church in 1887. When infant Emma Turner died in 1896, mourners chose a hill overlooking the Washita valley for her grave, and the Methodist Episcopal Church soon bought three acres to formalize the burial ground. With nine of its graves belonging to children under a year old, the cemetery is a quiet testament to the hardships of remote frontier life—and the last surviving trace of a vanished community.
Catarina, TX
Catarina rose in the 1920s around the headquarters of the Sinton-Taft (later Taft-Catarina) Ranch, which Kansas businessmen bought for development and sold off to eager buyers. By 1928 the town claimed some 2,500 residents and a full complement of businesses, including this Spanish Eclectic hotel built in 1925–26 with tile roofs, mission detailing, cast stone, and a courtyard with a fish pond. The building once also held a bank, café, shops, and offices.
Palacios, TX
John T. and Opal Cates Price arrived in Palacios in 1906 and, joined by Opal's parents, had architect Winn Wood design companion homes on adjoining lots by 1910. Unusual among Craftsman bungalows for its side-gabled roof and dormered second story with veranda, the house was a local showplace that once hosted former Texas Governor Pat Neff. During World War II it served as the unofficial officers' club for nearby Camp Hulen.