Historical Markers in Austin, Texas

Start with these Austin stories

• The Archive Warplaced 1978

  In 1839, Austin became the capital of the Republic of Texas. The national archives -- state papers and land titles -- were housed on Congress Avenue.

• Clara Driscollplaced 1967

  (April 2, 1881 - July 17, 1945) Patriot, philanthropist, writer, public figure. Born at St.Mary's, Refugio County; daughter of Robert and Julia Fox…

• Col. Lewis Miles Hobbs Washingtonplaced 1983

  (Dec. 2, 1813 - Feb. 1857) Georgia native Lewis Washington came to Texas about 1835 and joined the Revolutionary forces at San Antonio.

• Del Valle Army Air Base (Bergstrom Air Force Base)placed 2005

  (Bergstrom Air Force Base) Following the U.S. entry into World War II, the Army Air Corps established a base here in the Del Valle community on land…

• James L. Farmer, Jr.placed 2008

  James L. Farmer, Jr.(Jan. 12, 1920-Jul. 9, 1999)Civil rights leader James Leonard Farmer, Jr., son of Pearl (Houston) and Dr. James L. Farmer, Sr…

• Luther Hallplaced 2023

  In 1934, Gethsemane Lutheran Church pastor J.E. Chester called for a new Sunday School and Luther League facility.

Austin on the Texas history calendar

• April 2: Clara Driscoll
• December 2: Col. Lewis Miles Hobbs Washington
• December 8: Del Valle Army Air Base (Bergstrom Air Force Base)
• January 12: James L. Farmer, Jr.
• July 28: Luther Hall
• April 7: Saint David's Episcopal Church
• January 31: Swante Palm
• December 30: The Archive War

All 391 historical markers in Austin

• 1933 Austin Public Library1993
• Abner Hugh Cook1985
• Adams-Ziller House2009
• Addcox House1999
• African Americans in the Texas Revolution1994
• All Saints' Episcopal Church1975
• All Saints' Episcopal Church2013
• Andrew Jackson Hamilton1994
• Andrew Jackson Zilker2002
• Annie Webb Blanton1988
• Approximate Location of the Missions1936
• Ashford McGill House (Zilker Park Refectory)1990
• Austin High School1981
• Austin High School / Rio Grande Campus1981
• Austin High School-- John T. Allan Campus1981
• Austin Lodge No. 12, A.F. & A.M.1979
• Austin Memorial Park Cemetery2009
• Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary2002
• Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Campus2002
• Austin State Hospital1966
• Austin State Hospital Cemetery2002
• Austin Woman's Club1965
• Austin, C.S.A.1965
• Austin's Moonlight Towers1970
• B. J. Smith Property1968
• Bailey Hardeman1936
• Balcones Fault Aids Colonization of Texas1976
• Barr Mansion1983
• Barton Springs1970
• Becker School2007
• Bethany Cemetery1997
• Blackshear Elementary School2001
• Boardman-Webb House1979
• Boggy Creek Masonic Cemetery1995
• Brackenridge Hospital1984
• Brizendine House1974
• Broken Spoke2021
• Brown Building2013
• Brueggemann-Sandbo House1981
• Buddington-Benedict-Sheffield Compound2004
• Buen Retiro1972
• Camp Mabry1968
• Capt. & Mrs. Chauncey Johnson1936
• Capt. Jesse Billingsley1936
• Capt. John R. Hughes1970
• Captain Andrew Briscoe1936
• Carrington Bluff House2018
• Carrington-Covert House1962
• Cedar Chopping in Central Texas2004
• Cementerio Mexicano de Maria de la Luz2004
• Central Christian Church1985
• Central Presbyterian Church1988
• Clara Driscoll1967
• Clarksville1973
• Claudia Taylor Johnson Hall1974
• Col. Lewis Miles Hobbs Washington1983
• Collins Cemetery2018
• Colonel Stephen Heard Darden1936
• Colored Teachers State Association of Texas Building2016
• Comanche Peak2021
• Community of Nameless1970
• Confederate Men's Home2010
• Confederate Texas Legislatures1965
• Congregation Beth Israel1994
• Congress Avenue1989
• Cranfill Apartments2015
• Crusemann-Marsh-Bell House2009
• Daniel H. Caswell House1984
• Daniel Shipman1936
• Darnall House2022
• Davis Cemetery2000
• Davis-Sibley House2009
• Dawson Stone House1974
• Decker Swedish Evangelical Free Church and Cemetery1997
• Decker United Methodist Church and Community1973
• Deep Eddy Bathing Beach1991
• Del Valle Army Air Base (Bergstrom Air Force Base)2005
• Denny-Holliday House1978
• Desegregation of Lions Municipal Golf Course2009
• Desegregation of Texas Public Schools2008
• Dessau Cemetery2009
• Diocese of Austin2008
• Donnan-Hill House1975
• Downs Field2015
• Doyle Farm1974
• Dr. George Moffit Patrick1936
• Dr. Gideon Lincecum1936
• Dr. Lewis and Carolyn Mitchell2010
• Dr. Robert Lee "R.L" Moore2008
• Dr. Sidney and Helen White House2022
• Dr. Thomas Jefferson Gazley1936
• Driskill Hotel1966
• E.H. Carrington Grocery Store and Lyons Hall1983
• Eanes-Marshall Ranch1986
• Ebenezer (Third) Baptist Church1976
• Edmund and Emily Miller House2001
• Education in Manchaca2009
• Edward Clark House Outbuilding2012
• Elisabet Ney1968
• Elvira T. Manor Davis House1994
• Emma West Flats1976
• Esperanza School Building1974
• Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre Expedition1936
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dessau1984
• Evergreen Cemetery2021
• F. Weigl Iron Works1981
• Family Home of Dr. R. K. Smoot1965
• First Capitol in Austin1936
• First Classes of the University of Texas Law School1983
• First Colored Baptist Church1981
• First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Austin2004
• First Presbyterian Church of Austin1990
• First United Methodist Church of Austin1978
• Fischer House1982
• Fiskville2004
• Fort Magruder, C.S.A.2003
• Fortress Home1964
• Frances & Benjamin McCulloch1936
• French Legation1962
• Gen. Alexander Watkins Terrell1936
• Gen. George W. Terrell1936
• General Land Office of the State of Texas1936
• General Moseley Baker1936
• George A. Peterson House2015
• George W. Sampson Home1982
• George Washington Carver Branch Library1977
• George Washington Glasscock2014
• George Weedon1936
• Gerhard-Schoch House1974
• German Free School1962
• Gethsemane Church1962
• Gilfillan House1981
• Goodall Wooten House1990
• Goodman Building1969
• Governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton1978
• Governor Edmund Jackson Davis1976
• Governor Elisha Marshall Pease1977
• Governor James Edward Ferguson / Governor Miriam A. Ferguson1977
• Granger House and The Perch2010
• Green & White Grocery2023
• Green Pastures1976
• H&TC and I&GN Depots2010
• Hancock Recreation Center2014
• Hardin R. Runnels1936
• Helena and Robert Ziller House2013
• Henry G. Madison Cabin1974
• Henry H. and Bertha Sterzing Ziller House2001
• Henry Smith1983
• Herblin - Shoe House1987
• Hezikiah Haskell House2012
• Hirshfeld Cottage1962
• Hirshfeld House1962
• Hodnette House1998
• Hofheintz-Reissig Store1983
• Holy Cross Catholic Church and Community2014
• Hugh B. Hancock House1981
• Hyde Park1989
• In Memory of Thomas Christian, William Strother and Josiah Wilbarger1936
• Ira Hobart Evans1991
• Ireland and Mary Graves House2013
• J. Frank Dobie House1991
• J. L. Buaas Building1983
• J. L. Foster Gravesite2001
• J. P. Schneider Store1974
• J.W. & Cornelia Rice Scarbrough House2010
• Jacob Fontaine1986
• Jacob Larmour House1982
• Jacob Leser House1962
• James Allison York1936
• James and Leanna Walsh House2016
• James G. Wilkinson1936
• James L. Farmer, Jr.2008
• James Loraine Dallas1936
• James Wales Jones1957
• Jane Yelvington McCallum1990
• Jesse and Rosanna Grimes1936
• John A. Wharton1936
• John Crittenden Duval1936
• John Edward Lewis1936
• John Elbridge Hines2009
• John Hawkins Singleton1936
• John Ireland1936
• John Litton1936
• John W. McHorse1936
• Joseph and Mary Robinson Martin House2001
• Joseph Baker1936
• Judge Abner Lipscomb1936
• Judge Calvin M. Cureton1971
• Judge Edwin Waller1936
• Kappa Kappa Gamma House1989
• Kincheonville2015
• King-Tears Mortuary2002
• King-Von Rosenberg House2004
• Kopperl House1989
• L. C. Anderson High School and Integration of Austin's Public Schools2018
• Laguna Gloria1983
• Laurine Cecil Anderson1986
• Lilia and Josephine Casis1994
• Littlefield Building2002
• Littlefield Home1962
• Luther Hall2023
• Lydia Street Fire Station2021
• M. M. Long's Livery Stable & Opera House1979
• Major John B. Jones1964
• Major William Cooke1936
• Major William Martin "Buck" Walton1999
• Malcolm and Margaret Badger Reed Estate2006
• Manchaca United Methodist Church1984
• Martin Parmer1936
• Mary Street Stone House1978
• Mathews School2006
• Matsen House2011
• Maud Anna Berry Smith Fuller1993
• Mauthe-Myrick Mansion1981
• McClendon-Price House2013
• Merrilltown Cemetery2000
• Methodist Episcopal Church of Mount Salem Cemetery2002
• Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church1986
• Michael Butler and Butler Brick Company2016
• Millbrook (Roy-Hardin House)1967
• Millett Opera House1965
• Moore-Flack House1984
• Moore-Hancock Farmstead1992
• Moore's Crossing Bridge1980
• Moses Austin1986
• Mount Bonnell1969
• Mount Olive Baptist Church1991
• Neill-Cochran House1966
• Norwood Tower2006
• O. Henry1974
• O. Henry Hall1974
• Oak Hill1969
• Oakwood Cemetery1972
• Oertli Dairy2014
• Old Bakery1966
• Old Quarry Site1981
• Old Rock Store1970
• Ollie O. Norwood Estate2016
• Openheimer-Montgomery Building1983
• Organization of First Protestant Worship in Austin1975
• Original Site of First Baptist Church of Austin1985
• Original Site of First Methodist Church of Austin1978
• Original Site of First Presbyterian Church2000
• Paramount Theater1976
• Parque Zaragoza2015
• Pease Park1971
• Pease School1972
• Pease School Building2012
• Penn and Nellie Wooldridge House2003
• Peter and Clotilde Mansbendel House2013
• Peter Henry Oberwetter1977
• Philip Walker1936
• Philquist-Wood House2003
• Price Daniel2004
• Rainey House2016
• Randerson-Lundell Building1994
• Rebecca Kilgore Stuart Red1988
• Reuter House1986
• Richard Ellis1936
• Richard Overton2023
• Robert Crudup1936
• Robert Eanes1987
• Robert Potter1936
• Robert Rankin1936
• Robert S. Stanley House2001
• Roberts-Teague Cemetery2001
• Robinson-Macken House1986
• Rosewood Park2018
• Saint David's Episcopal Church1966
• Saint Edward's University Main Building1972
• Saint Mary's Cathedral1977
• Sampson Building1982
• Santiago Del Valle Grant1984
• Scarbrough Building2001
• Schneider Flour House & Vault2009
• Scholz Garten1967
• Scottish Rite Temple1967
• Seaholm Power Plant2007
• Seiders Oaks1967
• Simpson United Methodist Church1982
• Site of Edward Mandell House Home1986
• Site of Fort Colorado1936
• Site of Haynie-Cook House2010
• Site of John Bremond & Company2002
• Site of Old Anderson High School, Kealing Junior High School1986
• Site of Pecan Springs School1973
• Site of Samuel Huston College1996
• Site of Second Travis County Courthouse and Walton Building1965
• Site of Swedish Evangelical Free Church1977
• Site of Temporary Texas State Capitol of 1880's1967
• Site of Tenth Street Methodist Church1979
• Site of Texas Wesleyan College1989
• Site of the Home of Reuben Hornsby1936
• Site of the Official Residence of Mirabeau B. Lamar1936
• Sixth Street1989
• Smith-Clark-Smith House1975
• Snead-Rieck House2018
• Southgate-Lewis House1988
• Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Bldg.1977
• Sparks House2016
• Splitrock (Burns-Klein House)2013
• St. David's Rectory2010
• St. John Orphanage and Industrial Institute2019
• St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church1979
• St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church2013
• St. Stephen's Missionary Baptist Church1988
• Stanley and Emily Finch House1999
• State Bar of Texas1985
• State Cemetery of Texas1968
• Stephen F. Austin Hotel2002
• Stuart Female Seminary1973
• Susanna W. Dickinson1993
• Swante Palm1990
• Swedes of Texas1989
• Swedish Central Methodist Church1975
• Swedish Consulate and Swante Palm Library1991
• Swedish Hill1990
• Tarleton-Young Cemetery2021
• Taylor Lime Kiln #11983
• Texas and the Civil War - Secession Convention1965
• Texas and the Civil War State Military Board1965
• Texas Confederate Woman's Home2013
• Texas Dental Association1997
• Texas Highway Department1997
• Texas in the Civil War - Adjutants General1965
• Texas in the Civil War - Federal Forces1965
• Texas Land Commissioner, Johann Jacob Groos1974
• Texas Newspapers, C.S.A.1971
• Texas School for the Deaf2006
• Texas State Capitol1965
• The Academy1985
• The Archive War1978
• The Austin Statesman1970
• The Gant Family2011
• The Gault Homestead1990
• The Governor Horton Place1972
• The Governor's Mansion1962
• The Herrera Family2022
• The Homesite of Gordon and Margaret Catterall Mills2004
• The Jeremiah Hamilton House1978
• The Johnson Home1966
• The Old Zimmerman Home1967
• The Original Townsite of Montopolis2019
• The Radkey House1974
• The Railroad Commission of Texas1966
• The Shipe House1982
• The Sing Family in Austin2010
• The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Headquarters1986
• The Walter Tips Company Building1980
• The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas1991
• Third Site for Travis County Government1965
• Thomas Jones Hardeman1936
• Thomas Pliney Plaster1936
• Thompson Home1978
• Tillotson College1999
• To John Williams and Howell Haggett1936
• To Josephus Hornsby1936
• Travis County1936
• Tyler Rose1969
• University Interscholastic League2009
• Victory Grill2009
• Wahrenberger House1963
• Walnut Creek Baptist Church1969
• Walter and Mae Simms House2008
• Walter Tips House1976
• Ward Memorial United Methodist Church1985
• Waters Park1996
• Webberville Ebenezer Baptist Church1993
• Wells-LaRue House1963
• Wesley United Methodist Church1982
• West Hill1974
• West-Bremond Cottage1976
• Westgate Tower2012
• William C. Crane1936
• William E. Collard1936
• William Green Hill House1974
• William P. Hardeman1963
• William Steele1963
• William T. and Valerie Mansbendel Williams House2013
• William Tom1936
• William Vanoy Criswell1936
• Williams-Weigl House2002
• Willis Avery1936
• Winslow Turner1936
• Wood Street Settlement at Shoal Creek2016
• Wooldridge Square2022
• Xavier Blanchard Debray1963
• Z. N. Morrell1986
• Zachary Taylor Fulmore1967
• Zavala Elementary School2012
• Zeta Tau Alpha House2011

Historical markers near Austin

• Pflugerville9 stories · 14 mi
• Manor13 stories · 15 mi
• Webberville5 stories · 15 mi
• Buda12 stories · 16 mi
• Cedar Park8 stories · 16 mi
• Round Rock32 stories · 17 mi

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