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Austin County, Texas
Historical Markers in Bellville, Texas
Duane tells the stories behind 9 Texas historical markers in Bellville, in Austin County. Each one is hand-told in his own voice, with the official marker text right alongside. Common themes here: Texas Revolution, Civil War, Texas Music, and Outlaws & Lawmen. The markers on this list were placed between 1936 and 2018. 2 are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks.
Start with these Bellville stories
- Joachim H. Hintzplaced 2013
Johann Joachim Henrich Frederick (J. H.) Hintz (1841-1920), a native of Zisendorff, Mecklenburg, Germany, immigrated to the U.S. with his family in…
- John Bell Lewis Homeplaced 1979
Influential Austin county resident John Bell Lewis (1845-1920) was born on a plantation near Coffeeville, Alabama.
- Austin Countyplaced 1936
A part of the grant to Stephen F. Austin in 1821, created a municipality under the Mexican government in 1828, became a county of the Republic of…
- Early History of Bellville Methodist Churchplaced 1986
The heritage of Bellville Methodist Church dates to 1822, when Thomas B. Bell came to Texas from Florida with Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred…
- Austin County Jailplaced 1976
Calling their old jail "unsafe, unfit, and inadequate," the Austin County Court contracted in 1896 with Pauly Jail Building Co. of St. Louis to erect…
- Bellville High Schoolplaced 2018
Bellville’s 1918 two-story brick schoolhouse served all grades, but by the 1930s had overcrowding and structural problems.
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