Historical Markers in San Antonio, Texas

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• John Salmon "Rip" Fordplaced 1963

  Here Rests in Peace--John Salmon ("Rip") Ford May 26, 1815- November 3, 1897. Native South Carolinan, Pioneer doctor and editor, Republic of Texas…

• The Casas Realesplaced 1971

  On site chosen July 2, 1731, for "government houses" by people of San Fernando de Bexar, including newly-arrived settlers from the Canary Islands.

• "Battle" of Adams Hillplaced 2007

  Near this site, an early armed confrontation of the Civil War ended without bloodshed. On February 16, 1861 in San Antonio, General David E. Twiggs…

• Adina Emilia de Zavalaplaced 2008

  Teacher, historian and preservationist Adina Emilia De Zavala was born in Harris County, Texas, on November 28, 1861.

• Committee on Public Safetyplaced 1965

  Texas and the Civil War Committee on Public Safety Created by Texas Secession Convention, Jan. 1861.

• El Quartel (El Cuartel)placed 1967

  Built in 1810, on Jan. 22, 1811, Captain Juan Bautista De Las Casas recruited forces here for first overthrow of Spanish rule in Texas by arresting…

San Antonio on the Texas history calendar

• February 16: "Battle" of Adams Hill
• November 28: Adina Emilia de Zavala
• February 18: Committee on Public Safety
• June 3: Edward H. White II Memorial Hangar, Brooks Air Force Base
• January 22: El Quartel (El Cuartel)
• March 28: In this vicinity the Battle of Rosillo
• May 26: John Salmon "Rip" Ford
• August 30: Myra Lillian Davis Hemmings
• December 26: St. John's Lutheran Church, "the Rooster Church"
• February 8: Surrender of Federal Forces by General David E. Twiggs
• July 2: The Casas Reales
• November 26: The Grass Fight
• September 11: The Woll Invasion
• May 21: Venustiano Carranza in San Antonio

All 232 historical markers in San Antonio

• "Battle" of Adams Hill2007
• "Kelly No. 2" Flight Line1986
• 250th Anniversary of the Founding of San Antonio1968
• 9th Cavalry at San Pedro Springs2017
• Acequia de Arriba2012
• Acequia Madre de Valero (Main Irrigation Ditch of Valero Mission)1968
• Adina de Zavala1994
• Adina Emilia de Zavala2008
• Alamo Cenotaph1936
• Alamo Iron Works1979
• Alamo Low Barracks and Main Gateway1994
• Alamo Masonic Cemetery1984
• Alamo Portland and Roman Cement Company1991
• Alejo de la Encarnacion Perez1998
• Alexander and Alma Oppenheimer Halff House1997
• Alexander and Blanche Joske House2022
• Alfred Giles Home2015
• Anna Barbara and Johann Engelbert Heidgen House2003
• Anton Wulff House1976
• Aqueduct1962
• Arsenal Magazine1977
• Barbed Wire1971
• Barbed Wire Demonstration2000
• Battle of the Alazan1967
• Belgian Transit of Venus Observation Site2004
• Belknap Place2014
• Benjamin Rush Milam1936
• Bexar County under Nine Governments1967
• Biesenbach House2016
• Boldtville Schoolhouse1984
• Book Building1978
• Bowen's Island1985
• Brooks Air Force Base Hangar 91967
• Building 100 "Taj Mahal"1975
• Capt. Jose Antonio Menchaca1936
• Captain Lee Hall1970
• Carl Wilhelm August Groos House1977
• Casino Club1965
• Central Catholic High School1978
• Central Christian Church1985
• Chabot House1978
• Charles F.A. and Emilie Hummel House2019
• Charles Frederick King1936
• Chihuahua Trail1965
• Christ Episcopal Church1986
• Christopher Columbus Italian Society Hall1992
• Clara Driscoll (April 2, 1881-July 17, 1945)1978
• Coker Cemetery2010
• Col. Jose Francisco Ruiz1936
• Commerce Street Bridge1971
• Committee on Public Safety1965
• Confederate Cemetery1989
• Confederate Tannery1965
• Cover Cemetery2012
• David J. and May Bock Woodward House1995
• Dodd Field (Fort Sam Houston) Enemy Alien Detention Station, World War II2012
• Don Jose de Jesus Rodriguez1963
• Don Jose Miguel de Arciniega2015
• Don Juan Ximenes1963
• Dr. Claudius E. R. King House1973
• Eagar House1962
• Edward H. White II Memorial Hangar, Brooks Air Force Base1970
• El Carmen Cemetery (Cementerio del Carmen)1994
• El Quartel (El Cuartel)1967
• Elias and Lucy Edmonds House2008
• Emil Elmendorf House1982
• Emma Tenayuca2009
• Engleman-Muench House1984
• Enrique Esparza (September, 1824-December 20, 1917)1968
• Erasmo Seguin1973
• Ernst Homestead1983
• Evers Family Cemetery1990
• Fest-Steves Block1977
• First Officers Training Camp1999
• First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio1979
• Georg Heinrich Buchsenschutz Family Cemetery2005
• Goliad Road1968
• Gould-Onderdonk House1973
• Groos National Bank1968
• Guenther's Upper Mill, Site of1979
• Gustav Blersch House2011
• Halff House1966
• Hamilton P. Bee1963
• Hendrick Arnold1936
• In Re Ricardo Rodriguez2010
• In this vicinity the Battle of Rosillo1936
• Incarnate Word College1981
• Italian American Community in San Antonio1992
• J.M. and Birdie Nix House2006
• Jacobs Chapel United Methodist Church2022
• James Nathaniel Fisk1936
• Jay Adams House2012
• Jefferson Davis Smith1993
• John "Jack" Coker1968
• John Hermann Kampmann2012
• John Lang Sinclair2000
• John Salmon "Rip" Ford1963
• John W. Smith1973
• Jose Antonio Navarro1936
• Jose Francisco Ruiz1973
• Kelly Air Force Base2001
• King William Neighborhood2012
• King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road1918
• Krause House/Mann's Crossing Post Office1999
• L. B. Clegg House1978
• Little Church of La Villita1962
• Locke Hill Auditorium2014
• Lockhill School1968
• Ludwig Mahncke2010
• Lydia Mendoza2016
• Madison Square Presbyterian Church1977
• Majestic Theatre1991
• Mary Virginia Burkholder2017
• Maverick-Carter House2010
• McCulloch Cemetery1999
• Menger Hotel1965
• Menger Hotel1976
• Menger Soap Works1983
• Mission San Francisco de la Espada (Mission St. Francis of the Sword)1969
• Mission San Francisco de la Espada Dam, Ditch and Aqueduct1969
• Mission San Franscico Xavier de Najera1936
• Mission San Juan Capistrano1967
• Monte Vista Historic District1985
• Moos Homestead1964
• Moses Austin1936
• Moses Lapham1936
• Myra Lillian Davis Hemmings2012
• Norton-Polk-Mathis House1971
• Noted Texas Soldier Col. Edward Miles1964
• O. Henry House1964
• Oak Island Methodist Church and Cemetery1967
• Old Edward Steves House1970
• Old Houston Road1965
• Old Military Headquarters1965
• Old Military Hospital1965
• Old Mill on the Pajalache Acequia1936
• Old Powder Mill1965
• Old S. J. Brooks Home1969
• Old San Antonio National Bank Building1979
• Old San Pedro Springs1965
• Old St. Mary's College1969
• Oscar and Rachel Berman House2006
• Otto Koehler House1975
• Our Lady of the Lake University1986
• Pan American Round Table1991
• Petty House2017
• Placido Olivarri1936
• Plaza De Armas (Military Plaza)1971
• Polish Quarter of San Antonio2016
• Portland Cement Plants1944
• Protestant Home for Destitute Children1991
• Rechel-Stumpf House1962
• Robert B. Evans Home1969
• Route of El Camino Real1979
• Roy and Madge Hearne House2016
• Saint Mark's Episcopal Church1962
• Saint Mary's, Old, Site Of1985
• Saint Philip's College1998
• Saint Philip's Episcopal Church1998
• Salado Valley1968
• Samuel S. Smith1936
• San Antonio Casino Club Building1979
• San Antonio High School1979
• San Antonio Mutual Aid Association1965
• San Antonio Section, National Council of Jewish Women2000
• San Francisco Di Paola Catholic Church1991
• San Pedro Creek1995
• Sartor House1983
• Schulze-Schilo House1986
• Scottish Rite Cathedral1987
• Second Baptist Church of San Antonio1984
• Silvestre Revueltas2006
• Simona Smith Fisk1936
• Site of de la Garza House, Gardens and Mint1999
• Site of Home (1850 to 1870) of Samuel Augustus Maverick1967
• Site of Old St. Mary's1969
• Site of Original Building, First Baptist Church1967
• Site of Rincon/Douglass School1989
• Site of the Camp of Stephen F. Austin1936
• Site of the Home of Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Herff2000
• Site of the Old Adobe1965
• Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Building2022
• Spanish and Mexican Land Grants2015
• St. Anthony Catholic School2008
• St. John's Lutheran Church, "the Rooster Church"1962
• St. Paul United Methodist Church2010
• St. Paul's Epsicopal Church1962
• St. Philip's College (original site)1976
• Staacke Brothers Building1984
• Station "X"2018
• Stevens Building1984
• Stinson Airport2001
• Sunshine Ranch2010
• Surrender of Federal Forces by General David E. Twiggs1965
• T. C. Frost and the Frost Bank1978
• T. C. Frost Wool Warehouse1990
• Texas' First All-Spanish Radio Program1973
• The Battle of the Salado1936
• The Bexar County Courthouse1976
• The Bullis House1983
• The Caile House1966
• The Canary Islanders1971
• The Casas Reales1971
• The Dawson Massacre1936
• The Grass Fight1982
• The Matamoros Road1965
• The Oge House1971
• The Pajalache Acequia (Ditch)1936
• The Perrin Home1968
• The Pershing Chinese2009
• The Rev. John Wesley DeVilbiss1967
• The Southwell Company2015
• The Stockman Building1971
• The Woll Invasion1972
• The Woman's Club of San Antonio1975
• Thiele Cottage1984
• Thomas Jefferson High School1983
• Toltec Apartments2014
• Travis Park United Methodist Church1973
• United States San Antonio Arsenal1986
• Ursuline Convent and Academy1962
• Venustiano Carranza in San Antonio2008
• Vicinity of the Storming of Bexar1971
• W. B. Teagarden House2008
• Wesley Peacock House1979
• Westside Black Enclaves2016
• Wetmore Community Cemetery2001
• William and Mary Ann Richter House2002
• Wolfson House1969
• Young Perry Alsbury1936
• Zambrano House1966
• Zero Milestone / Old Spanish Trail1924

Historical markers near San Antonio

• Helotes8 stories · 17 mi
• La Vernia14 stories · 23 mi
• Castroville25 stories · 24 mi
• Leming6 stories · 24 mi
• Lytle6 stories · 25 mi
• Poteet9 stories · 27 mi

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