Atascosa Lodge No. 379, A.F. and A.M.

Organized by eleven Master Masons in Benton City in 1872 and chartered June 9, 1873, by Grand Lodge of Texas. First hall, erected of stone in 1876, provided space for public school. The lodge, which has furnished social and cultural ...

Old Atascosa County Jail

County officials rented a small Jourdanton house for a jail in 1911 after the county seat was moved here from Pleasanton in 1910. A proposal to build a new jail with cells from the old Pleasanton structure was rejected and ...

Amphion and Amphion Cemetery

Amphion traces its beginning to the establishment of Atascosa County's first courthouse which is believed to have been constructed near this site at the county seat of Navatasco in 1857. Amphion, thought to have been named after a figure in ...

Innes Wholesale Furniture / City Ice Delivery

1919

Innes Wholesale Furniture Co.

No. 701 E. First

1919

When the George Innes Dry Goods Warehouse opened in 1919, it bought, manufactured and sold furniture and home furnishings.

1998

The building was converted into Innes Station, an upscale loft apartment community.

1917

City Ice Delivery, located at ...

Union Station and the Santa Fe

1914

1911

The City Commission forced the railroads to elevate the East Douglas tracks, which solved the problem of having the Santa Fe, Rock Island and Frisco lines crossing and often blocking the street. It also proposed that a single, or unified, ...

Simmons Hardware Company / Hockaday Paint Company

1908

E.C. Simmons Keen Kutter Cutlery and Tools

With E.C. Simmons as president, Simmons Hardware Company was developed into one of the most extensive corporations of its kind with divisions in Wichita, Sioux City, Toledo, New York, Minneapolis and St. Louis. The ...

Jamison City, Eureka Mine and Mill, Johnstown

‹— 5 Miles

Along the Pioneer Trail lies Jamison City and Mine. Large producer, famous for its 52-pound nugget; Eureka Mill and Mine yielding $17 millions to Cornish miners and others. Johnstown, now Johnsville, well preserved '49 town.

Marker is on Highway ...

Plainsfield Plantation

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Plainsfield Plantation, on this site, and Pawletts Plantation, nearby, were established ca. 1690

by Joseph Blake (1663-1700), one of Carolina’s Lords Proprietors and governor of the colony 1694 and 1696-1700.

Blake, who had come to the colony ca. ...

Fort Stockton Guard House

Founded in 1859, Fort Stockton was abandoned during the Civil War and reestablished in 1867, when this guard house was built. Stone for the structure was quarried locally. The lumber was hauled from Indianola by oxcart. The Guard House consisted ...

Three Chopped Way

One of routes of Military & post road begun, 1807, from Natchez to Ft. Stoddert & Milledgeville, Ga. Over this trail many immigrants came into Territory & here Sam Dale operated wagon train.

Marker is on State Highway 15 0.1 miles ...