J.P. Schneider Store

In the mid-1860s, shortly after the Civil War, Jacob Peter “Jake” Schneider (1852-1925) began working in William Brueggerhoff’s general mercantile store, and part-time as a legislative page in the Capitol. About 1870, he and his mother, Margarita Schneider, opened a ...

Independent Boat Operations of the 1850s

The Sacramento Wood Company’s steamer wood freight shed, between N and O streets in the Front Street right-of-way, remained at this location for approximately 30 years. The Sacramento Wood Company could trace his roots from an earlier enterprise that gathered ...

Joshua Barney's Barge and the Chesapeake Flotilla

Joshua Barney's Barge is a 4/5 scale, authentic working replica of an American warship of the Chesapeake Flotilla from the War of 1812. This barge was built as a project of the Prince George's County tricentennial in 1996 by The ...

Hardee’s Attack

July 20, 1864. At 3:30 P.M., 3 divisions of Hardee’s A.C., [CS] Bate’s, Walker’s, & Maney’s, moved to the attack of Newton’s 4th A.C. div. [US] posted on the ridge 200 yards north of Collier Road.

Bate, on the right of ...

Saint Mary’s Cathedral

In 1851, the Catholics of Austin wrote to the Most Rev. John M. Odin (1801-1871), first Bishop of Texas. “This city is improving rapidly and our intentions are to build a church…if we can get a clergyman to stay among ...

Stony Point Battlefield

In July 1779, American Light Infantry, under Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, launched a midnight assault, capturing a British Fort and its defenders.

N.Y.S. Organization Daughters of the American Revolution

Marker is at the intersection of N Liberty Drive (U.S. 9W) and Park ...

Saint Edward’s University Main Building

Erected in 1888. Rebuilt after fire in 1903. Nicholas J. Clayton, master architect, designed both building in Gothic revival style.

Serves institution founded in 1873 by congregation of Holy Cross, as male catholic school. First pupils were local farm boys. In ...

Thorstrand

The Magnus Swenson Estate

These two Mediterranean Revival mansions were designed for Magnus and Annie Swenson and their daughter Mary North by Madison architects Law and Law. Swenson was a Norwegian immigrant who became an internationally famous inventor and humanitarian. Among ...

Site of Fort Defiance

1794

Rendezvous of followers of General Elijah Clarke in the Trans-Oconee Country.

Marker is at the intersection of South Jefferson Street and East Hancock Street (Georgia Route 22/24), in the median on South Jefferson Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Saint David’s Episcopal Church

Located in pioneer Austin at the edge of town on a site never used for a secular building. At first called “Church of the Epiphany.” Cornerstone laid on April 7, 1853, with impressive ceremonies for the capital city’s first tone ...