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Travis County, Texas
Historical Markers in Austin, Texas
Duane tells the stories behind 285 Texas historical markers in Austin, in Travis County. Each one is hand-told in his own voice, with the official marker text right alongside. Common themes here: Texas Revolution, Civil War, Native History, and Strange But True. The markers on this list were placed between 1936 and 2023. 101 are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks.
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.
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All 285 historical markers in Austin
- Abner Hugh Cook1985
- Adams-Ziller House2009
- Addcox House1999
- African Americans in the Texas Revolution1994
- 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 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
- Blackshear Elementary School2001
- Boardman-Webb House1979
- Boggy Creek Masonic Cemetery1995
- Brackenridge Hospital1984
- Brizendine House1974
- Broken Spoke2021
- Brueggemann-Sandbo House1981
- Buddington-Benedict-Sheffield Compound2004
- Camp Mabry1968
- Capt. & Mrs. Chauncey Johnson1936
- Capt. Jesse Billingsley1936
- Capt. John R. Hughes1970
- Captain Andrew Briscoe1936
- Carrington Bluff House2018
- 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 Texas Legislatures1965
- Congress Avenue1989
- Cranfill Apartments2015
- Crusemann-Marsh-Bell House2009
- Daniel H. Caswell House1984
- Daniel Shipman1936
- Davis Cemetery2000
- Davis-Sibley House2009
- Dawson Stone House1974
- Decker Swedish Evangelical Free Church and Cemetery1997
- Deep Eddy Bathing Beach1991
- Del Valle Army Air Base (Bergstrom Air Force Base)2005
- Desegregation of Lions Municipal Golf Course2009
- Desegregation of Texas Public Schools2008
- Diocese of Austin2008
- Downs Field2015
- Doyle Farm1974
- Dr. George Moffit Patrick1936
- Dr. Gideon Lincecum1936
- Dr. Lewis and Carolyn Mitchell2010
- Dr. Sidney and Helen White House2022
- Dr. Thomas Jefferson Gazley1936
- Driskill Hotel1966
- E.H. Carrington Grocery Store and Lyons Hall1983
- Edmund and Emily Miller House2001
- Elisabet Ney1968
- Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre Expedition1936
- Evergreen Cemetery2021
- F. Weigl Iron Works1981
- Family Home of Dr. R. K. Smoot1965
- 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
- Frances & Benjamin McCulloch1936
- French Legation1962
- General Land Office of the State of Texas1936
- General Moseley Baker1936
- George W. Sampson Home1982
- George Washington Carver Branch Library1977
- George Washington Glasscock2014
- George Weedon1936
- German Free School1962
- Gethsemane Church1962
- 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
- H&TC and I&GN Depots2010
- Hancock Recreation Center2014
- 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
- 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. P. Schneider Store1974
- Jacob Fontaine1986
- Jacob Larmour House1982
- Jacob Leser House1962
- James Allison York1936
- James and Leanna Walsh House2016
- James G. Wilkinson1936
- James L. Farmer, Jr.2008
- Jane Yelvington McCallum1990
- Jesse and Rosanna Grimes1936
- John A. Wharton1936
- John Edward Lewis1936
- John Hawkins Singleton1936
- John Ireland1936
- John Litton1936
- Joseph and Mary Robinson Martin House2001
- Judge Edwin Waller1936
- Kincheonville2015
- King-Tears Mortuary2002
- Kopperl House1989
- L. C. Anderson High School and Integration of Austin's Public Schools2018
- Laguna Gloria1983
- Laurine Cecil Anderson1986
- Lilia and Josephine Casis1994
- Littlefield Home1962
- Luther Hall2023
- Lydia Street Fire Station2021
- Major John B. Jones1964
- Major William Martin "Buck" Walton1999
- Malcolm and Margaret Badger Reed Estate2006
- Martin Parmer1936
- Mary Street Stone House1978
- 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's Crossing Bridge1980
- Moses Austin1986
- Mount Bonnell1969
- Mount Olive Baptist Church1991
- Neill-Cochran House1966
- Norwood Tower2006
- O. Henry1974
- O. Henry Hall1974
- Oakwood Cemetery1972
- Oertli Dairy2014
- Old Bakery1966
- Old Quarry Site1981
- Old Rock Store1970
- Ollie O. Norwood Estate2016
- Original Site of First Baptist Church of Austin1985
- Paramount Theater1976
- Parque Zaragoza2015
- Pease Park1971
- Pease School1972
- Penn and Nellie Wooldridge House2003
- Peter Henry Oberwetter1977
- Philquist-Wood House2003
- Price Daniel2004
- Rebecca Kilgore Stuart Red1988
- Reuter House1986
- Richard Ellis1936
- Richard Overton2023
- Robert Potter1936
- Robert Rankin1936
- Robert S. Stanley House2001
- Roberts-Teague Cemetery2001
- Robinson-Macken House1986
- Saint David's Episcopal Church1966
- Saint Edward's University Main Building1972
- Sampson Building1982
- Scarbrough Building2001
- Schneider Flour House & Vault2009
- Scholz Garten1967
- Scottish Rite Temple1967
- Seaholm Power Plant2007
- 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 Temporary Texas State Capitol of 1880's1967
- Site of the Home of Reuben Hornsby1936
- Smith-Clark-Smith House1975
- Snead-Rieck House2018
- Splitrock (Burns-Klein House)2013
- St. John Orphanage and Industrial Institute2019
- St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church1979
- St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church2013
- 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 Consulate and Swante Palm Library1991
- Texas and the Civil War - Secession Convention1965
- Texas and the Civil War State Military Board1965
- Texas Dental Association1997
- Texas Highway Department1997
- Texas in the Civil War - Federal Forces1965
- Texas Newspapers, C.S.A.1971
- Texas School for the Deaf2006
- Texas State Capitol1965
- The Academy1985
- The Archive War1978
- The Gant Family2011
- The Gault Homestead1990
- The Governor Horton Place1972
- The Governor's Mansion1962
- The Herrera Family2022
- The Jeremiah Hamilton House1978
- The Johnson Home1966
- The Old Zimmerman Home1967
- 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
- Waters Park1996
- Webberville Ebenezer Baptist Church1993
- Wesley United Methodist Church1982
- Westgate Tower2012
- William Green Hill House1974
- William P. Hardeman1963
- William Steele1963
- 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
- Zeta Tau Alpha House2011
Historical markers near Austin
- Manor6 stories · 12 mi
- Round Rock23 stories · 16 mi
- Leander5 stories · 21 mi
- Kyle12 stories · 22 mi
- Georgetown30 stories · 24 mi
- Lockhart8 stories · 27 mi
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