James H. Carson

James H. Carson (1821 - 1853)

- - Soldier, gold prospector and miner, writer, sportsman. Discovered gold at Carson’s Creek. He inspired a mutual confidence between man and man.

Dedicated by

Matuca Chapter, E.C.V.

This 27th Day of April 1974

Marker is on State Highway ...

James G. Wilkinson

A member of Capt. Wm. W. Hill’s company at San Jacinto. Born in Kentucky March 5, 1805. Died in Lee County, Texas August 15, 1848.

Here also sleeps Amanda Wilkinson, wife of James G. Wilkinson.

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La Jornada

On January 26, 1598, amid embraces and farewells, Governor Juan de Onate left Santa Barbara, in present day Chihuahua, leading an expedition bound for New Mexico. Nearly 600 settlers accompanied him, along with Mexican Indian allies and Franciscan friars. In ...

Site of John Bremond & Company

New York native John Bremond (1813-1866) built a dry goods store at this site as early as 1847. Soon, his dry goods department faced Pecan (Sixth) Street, and the grocery department faced Brazos Street. Active civically, he served as a ...

Jefferson Davis

For three years (1821-1824) while a student at Transylvania University Jefferson Davis (afterwards President of Southern Confederacy) lived here with Joseph Ficklin then Postmaster of Lexington.

Marker is at the intersection of High Street (State Road 1974) and Limestone Street, on ...

John B. Kiger

Sperryville Historic District

(Upper Plaque):This Property

has been placed on the

National Register

Of Historic Places

(Lower Plaque):John B. Kiger

well known wheelright

lived in this unique log and stone house

and built Conestoga wagons on this site

in the 1830s. One of his wagons is

on display at the ...

The LBJ Plaza

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) and opened in the spring of 1971. The design featured the monumental library building clad in Roman travertine and an expansive plaza ...

Junction of 20th and 14th Corps

With the right wing of his army in the vicinity of Clinton and Macon, General Sherman, with the left wing, appeared at this point on November 23, 1864. The left wing, consisting of the 20th and 14th corps, was comprised ...

Major William Martin “Buck” Walton

January 17, 1832 – July 1, 1915

Mississippi native William M. “Buck” Walton attended the University of Virginia and studied law in Carrollton, Mississippi. In 1853 he moved to Austin, where his first law partner was A.J. Hamilton, later Governor of ...

The Lighthouse & Informer / John H. McCray

(Front text)

The Lighthouse & Informer, long the leading black newspaper in S.C., was a weekly published here from 1941 to 1954 by journalist and civil rights advocate John Henry McCray (1910-1997). McCray, who founded and paper “so our people ...