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Fort Bend County, Texas
Historical Markers in Fulshear, Texas
Duane tells the stories behind 7 Texas historical markers in Fulshear, in Fort Bend County. Each one is hand-told in his own voice, with the official marker text right alongside. Common themes here: Ghost Towns, Civil War, and Texas Revolution. The markers on this list were placed between 1971 and 2016.
Start with these Fulshear stories
- Pittsvilleplaced 2010
Planters preferring the prairie to the hazardous Brazos River bottoms settled this village in the 1840s.
- Town of Fulshearplaced 1971
On July 16, 1824, land grant of Mexico to Churchill Fulshear, one of the "Old 300" settlers of Stephen F. Austin, father of Texas.
- Albert and Ethel Herzsteinplaced 2016
Albert H. Herzstein was born March 5, 1907, into a Jewish immigrant family in Trinidad, Colorado.
- Fulshear Black Cemeteryplaced 2012
ORAL TRADITION SAYS THAT THIS CEMETERY BEGAN AS A SLAVE CEMETERY ON THE PLANTATION OF TENNESSEE NATIVE CHURCHILL FULSHEAR.
- Fulshear Cemeteryplaced 1994
More than six acres here of the Mexican land grant acquired in 1824 by "Old 300" colonist Churchill Fulshear, Jr., were donated to the Methodist…
- Pleasant Hill Cemeteryplaced 2002
In 1910, I. G. Mayes conveyed two acres of land from the Mason Briscoe estate to the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church at this site.
All 7 historical markers in Fulshear
Historical markers near Fulshear
- Brookshire6 stories · 7 mi
- Rosenberg17 stories · 11 mi
- Wallis8 stories · 11 mi
- Richmond38 stories · 12 mi
- San Felipe10 stories · 14 mi
- Sugar Land10 stories · 17 mi
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