Historical Markers in Alvarado, Texas

Start with these Alvarado stories

• Outlaws Benjamin Bickerstaff and Josiah Thompsonplaced 2006

  Near this site in 1869, Alvarado citizens ended the lives of outlaws Benjamin Bickerstaff and Josiah Thompson.

• Balch-Senterwood Cemeteryplaced 1996

  This graveyard was established in 1856 adjacent to the Balch Cemetery for the African American population following the death of a slave girl killed…

• Myers Cemeteryplaced 1998

  Samuel Houston Myers (1810-1874) and his wife Martha "Patsy" Wallace Myers came to Texas with their six children in 1851.

• Site of Norman Springs & Norman Groveplaced 2000

  William Balch (1804-1870) claimed land around this site as a member of the Peters Colony in 1849.

• A. A. and Susanna Head Homesteadplaced 1993

  Alanson Asbury (A. A.) Head (1843-1925) and his wife, Susanna Alabama Bethany (1843-1924) built a two-story residence here about 1877.

• Alvaradoplaced 1994

  Early settler David Mitchell established a trading post near here in the late 1840s, about the time colonists of W. S. Peters' empresario grant began…

All 14 historical markers in Alvarado

• A. A. and Susanna Head Homestead1993
• Alvarado1994
• Alvarado Glenwood Cemetery2004
• Alvarado Masonic Lodge No. 314 A.F. & A.M.2002
• Balch-Senterwood Cemetery1996
• Bethany Rest Cemetery2002
• First Baptist Church of Alvarado2003
• First Methodist Church1965
• Johnson County Pioneers and Old Settlers Reunion1992
• Myers Cemetery1998
• Outlaws Benjamin Bickerstaff and Josiah Thompson2006
• Site of Alvarado School, Church and Union Building2004
• Site of Ezell-McLeroy Cotton Gin1997
• Site of Norman Springs & Norman Grove2000

Historical markers near Alvarado

• Grandview5 stories · 9 mi
• Cleburne24 stories · 11 mi
• Mansfield8 stories · 12 mi
• Midlothian10 stories · 14 mi
• Rio Vista7 stories · 16 mi
• Ovilla5 stories · 21 mi

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