On This Day in Texas History

Every day has a Texas story.

A historical marker for all 365 days, told out loud by Duane. Start with today →

January

January 1John Harmon
January 2Macario Garcia
January 3Astrodome
January 4The Benedum Oil Field and Benedum Townsite
January 5Kiowa Raid of 1868 (SW Part of County)
January 6Site of Homestead of William C. Sublett
January 7The Powell Oil Field
January 8Dove Creek Battle
January 9General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
January 10The Lucas Gusher
January 11Forrest Lodge No. 19, A.F. & A.M.
January 12James L. Farmer, Jr.
January 13Rodman-Noel Oil Field
January 14Parker Cemetery
January 15Fort Hood Communities
January 16The Mexican Telegraph Company / The Zimmermann Telegram
January 17The Church of Christ in Rockwall
January 18Friedens Church
January 19Janis Lyn Joplin
January 20H. B. Pemberton
January 21Capture of the USS Morning Light and USS Velocity
January 22El Quartel (El Cuartel)
January 23Dr. Mollie W. Armstrong
January 24Robert E. Howard
January 25Odessa Telephone Exchange
January 26Luther Memorial
January 27Cow Camp Massacre on Hondo Creek
January 28Porvenir Massacre
January 29Great Panhandle Indian Scare of 1891
January 30First Baptist Church of Galveston
January 31Swante Palm

February

February 1Governor James Webb Throckmorton
February 2Albert Sidney Johnston
February 3William G. "Bill" Hall
February 4Goliad
February 5Elbert Gray
February 6Charley Lee Coe
February 7Dickinson Station of the GH&H Railroad
February 8Surrender of Federal Forces by General David E. Twiggs
February 9Love-Anderson Feud
February 10Shootout at the Pittsburg Depot
February 11Hopkins County Courthouse
February 12Capt. Edward Thomas Broughton and the Johnson Guards
February 13Old Fort Mason
February 14Robert R. Young
February 15Near Site of Indian Battle
February 16"Battle" of Adams Hill
February 17LULAC
February 18Committee on Public Safety
February 19First United Methodist Church of Harlingen
February 20Women Airforce Service Pilots
February 21Law West of The Pecos
February 22Allen
February 23Jesse B. Bowman
February 24Birthplace of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN
February 25Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
February 26Tex Avery
February 27In Memory of Captain Thomas K. Pearson
February 28John William Thomason Jr.

March

March 1Washington County
March 2Sam Houston
March 3The Courthouses of McLennan County
March 4First Christian Church of El Paso
March 5The Charles Goodnight Memorial Trail
March 6William Barret Travis
March 7J.T. Canales
March 8Jack Lummus
March 9Camp Scurry
March 10Taylor Camp Site, 1846
March 11Governor W. Lee O'Daniel
March 12Randolph Foster
March 13Duncan's Ferry (on San Marcos River)
March 14Fort Worth Stockyards Horse and Mule Barns
March 15Mrs. Angelina Bell Peyton Eberly
March 16Burial Site of David G. Burnet
March 17Captain Jesse Burnam
March 18New London School Explosion
March 19Battle of Plum Creek
March 20St. John's Episcopal Church
March 21Old Tascosa
March 22Old Harrisburg
March 23Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ
March 24James Stephen Hogg
March 25William W. Moon
March 26Nuecestown Raid
March 27J. W. Fannin
March 28In this vicinity the Battle of Rosillo
March 29On This Site Stood the Only Home Owned in Texas by Stephen F. Austin
March 30Spanish Road to Santa Fe, 1808
March 31Pvt. David Bennes Cantu Barkley

April

April 1South Plains Army Air Field
April 2Clara Driscoll
April 3Alexander Cockrell / Sarah Horton Cockrell
April 4Hendrick Arnold Survey No. 59 Colored Burial Ground
April 5President T. Roosevelt's Visit to Grayson County
April 6Vernon Dalhart
April 7Saint David's Episcopal Church
April 81840 Houston City Cemetery
April 9Operation Long Horn
April 10Sam Bass Train Robbery
April 11Houston, Margaret Moffette Lea
April 12The Community of Briggs
April 13General Ira C. Eaker
April 14Stafford-Miller House
April 15Captain William Plunkett Harris
April 16Abraham Roberts Homesite
April 17Fifrty Feet North to Grave of Collin McKinney
April 18Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Plant No. 4
April 19Catherine McLauren
April 20Site of U. S. Army Air Corps Plane Crash
April 21Battle of San Jacinto
April 22Captain Steven L. Bennett
April 23Wreck of the Don Milo
April 24Driller Park
April 25Rogers Massacre
April 26Odd Fellow and Rebekah Children's Home
April 27Bayland Guards
April 28First Baptist Church of Mart
April 29Robert E. Lee High School
April 30Andrew Kent

May

May 1Lone Star Fair
May 2Upshur County, C. S. A.
May 3Braniff International Flight 352
May 4Shoe Bar Ranch Headquarters
May 5General Ignacio Zaragoza
May 6Fin & Feather Hunting and Fishing Club
May 7Beeville Post Office
May 8Joiner No. 3 Daisy Bradford
May 9Stephen Williams
May 10Daniel McLean / John Sheridan
May 11The 1970 Lubbock Tornado
May 12Flood, The 1957
May 13Last Battle of the Civil War
May 14Office of the Supervisor of Shipbuilding and Consolidated Steel Corporation
May 15Katherine Anne Porter
May 16Herman and Willie Lehmann
May 17Friona Schools
May 18Pandit Mehar Chand
May 19Pease River Battlefield
May 20International Boundary Marker
May 21Venustiano Carranza in San Antonio
May 22Captain L. D. Bradley
May 23Dalton Gang's Last Raid
May 24Cross Timbers
May 25Central Texas Baptist Sanitarium
May 26John Salmon "Rip" Ford
May 27Henry Prentice Redfield
May 28Santa Rita No. 1
May 29Chalk Bluff Indian Massacre
May 30Dr. Joseph William Kennedy, Jr
May 31Texas Central Railroad

June

June 1The Pioneer Coalsons
June 2Last Review of the Confederacy
June 3Edward H. White II Memorial Hangar, Brooks Air Force Base
June 4Baldemar "Freddy Fender" Garza Huerta
June 5Colonel Neel E. Kearby
June 6Truman Kimbro
June 7Leah Moncure, P.E.
June 8Ellis P. Bean
June 9Alta Vista Hotel, Site of
June 10Events at Anahuac Leading to the Texas Revolution
June 11Sanderson Flash Flood
June 12Gregorio Cortez
June 13Fort Smith-Santa Fe Trail
June 14Connie Hagar
June 15First Cemetery in Potter County
June 16Tom Mayfield
June 17World's Richest Acre
June 18The Reverend Ned P. Pullum
June 19Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
June 20Audie Murphy
June 21Miner Crawford
June 22William Madison McDonald
June 23R.F. Tankersley Homestead
June 24Francis John (Frank) Trost (June 24, 1868 - August 4, 1944)
June 25Audubon
June 26Birthplace of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
June 27Dr. Thomas F. Freeman
June 28SS Selma
June 29Palacios Pavilions
June 30Charlye Ola Farris

July

July 1The Galveston Movement
July 2The Casas Reales
July 3In Memory of Colonel Benjamin Fort Smith and all other pioneers
July 4World's First Rodeo
July 5Hood's Devils River Fight
July 6Battle of the Little Wichita
July 7Route of Nolan Expedition
July 8Camp Bowie in World War I
July 9Oran Milo Roberts
July 10Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2896
July 11El Paso County, C.S.A.
July 12Log Cabin Study of Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott
July 13Juan Davis Bradburn
July 14Joachim H. Hintz
July 15Bridgetown
July 16Audie Murphy's Homecoming, June 15, 1945
July 171931 Free Bridge Controversy
July 18Horace Seaver Carswell, Jr.
July 19Robert F. Rowntree House
July 20Christopher Columbus Rogers
July 21Thomas C. and Eliza V. Felps
July 22Leonard
July 23General Sidney Sherman
July 24General Ranald Slidell Mackenzie
July 25Governor Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo
July 26Original Site of The Steamboat House
July 27Bryan Air Force Base
July 28Luther Hall
July 29Burkburnett ("Boomtown USA")
July 30St. Mary's Episcopal Church
July 31Sam and Will Moore Institute

August

August 1Moses William Hindes
August 2Eastland
August 3On Route of the Comanche Exodus
August 4Well's Point
August 5First United Methodist Church
August 6Highland Oaks Church of Christ
August 7Jean Baptiste Chaison
August 8Joseph "Joe Tex" Arrington, Jr.
August 9Lt. Col. William E. Dyess
August 10Home County of Famous Frontiersman J. Wright Mooar
August 11Robert Thomas Hill
August 12The Battle of Blanco Canyon
August 13The Killing of General J. J. Byrne
August 14Site of the Last Battle
August 15Battle of Medina
August 16Corpus Christi, 1861-1865
August 17Crockett, David
August 18Fort Lipantitlan
August 19Rialto Theater
August 20One Fourth-Mile North to Ruins of Fort Lancaster
August 21Parnell
August 22Erwin Evans Smith
August 23Doom of the Outlaws of Pegleg Station
August 24Site of Ben Ficklin
August 25Henry Miller Morgan
August 26Pitts Cemetery
August 27Kilgore Colored and C. B. Dansby Schools
August 28Hotter 'N Hell Hundred
August 29Vicinity of Indian Fight
August 30Myra Lillian Davis Hemmings
August 31Sulphur Park

September

September 1Coach Bear Bryant and the Junction Boys
September 2Smyrna Union Church
September 3Haby Settlement
September 4Louis Wiltz Kemp
September 5Teague Cemetery
September 6Machinegunner, U.S. 25th Inf. Div., Cpl. Benito Martinez
September 7Corsicana Newspapers
September 8Original Site of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum
September 9Site of Lyman's Wagon Train Batttle
September 10George Herman O'Brien, Jr.
September 11The Woll Invasion
September 12Demonstration of the First Working Integrated Circuit
September 13Site of White Point Mass Graves of 1919 Hurricane Victims
September 141919 Storm
September 15Robert David Law
September 16Padre Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
September 17Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz
September 18Three Miles Northeast to Site of Seth Ward College
September 19City of Luling
September 20Pool Manufacturing Company
September 21Levi Charles Meyers Harby
September 22Sacred Heart Catholic Church
September 23Cottle No.1, First Gas Well in Shackelford County
September 24Bayland Orphans Home
September 25Oliver Loving
September 26Englishmen in South Texas, 1568
September 27Bazán and Longoria Murders
September 28The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
September 29Gonzales Cannon Burial Site
September 30Greenville Cotton Compress

October

October 1Galveston "News," C. S.A.
October 2Battle of Gonzales
October 3Lou Della Crim No. 1
October 4George Webster Smith
October 5The Dowdy Tragedy of 1878
October 6George Campbell Childress
October 7Campsite of the Marcy Expedition
October 8Battle Creek Burial Ground
October 9Site of the Home of Captain Ira Westover
October 10Joseph Blancpain's French Trading Post
October 11William Whipple Johnson
October 12Britt Johnson
October 13Fort Wolters
October 14Operation Brass Knob
October 15Lyons Family Cemetery
October 16Trinidad Concha
October 17Dallas City Hall, 1914-1978
October 18Sallie E. Gibbs
October 19John Ben Shepperd
October 20President William Howard Taft Visits Taft
October 21Site of Villa Maria Ursuline Academy
October 22McBride Ranch House
October 23Willow Point Cemetery
October 24J.P. Richardson, Jr: The Big Bopper
October 25Site of the 1759 Taovayo Victory Over Spain
October 26Cora Vance and Vance Hatchery
October 27Rudolf Anderson, Jr.
October 28Ormer Leslie Locklear
October 29Nicholas Bluntzer
October 30A. H. Fortenberry
October 31Indianola

November

November 1Santos Benavides
November 2First Juries to Sit Women in Dallas County
November 3Young Men's Christian Association of Beaumont
November 4John Joseph Emmett Gibson
November 5First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs
November 6Brownsville, C.S.A.
November 7First Presbyterian Church of Rockwall
November 8First Patented Wire Fence
November 9St. Louis Church
November 10Estéfana Goseascochea Cemetery
November 11Kadane Discovery Well
November 12Leonard Roy Harmon
November 13Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church
November 14Phantom Hill Road
November 15Galveston Orphans Home
November 16Town of Douglass
November 17W.A.S.P. (Women's Airforce Service Pilots) Training Base: Avenger Field
November 18Saenger Theatre
November 19Gerald-Harris Shooting
November 20Matagorda, C.S.A.
November 21"Hey Paula"
November 22Officer J.D. Tippit
November 23Pilgrim's Rest Primitive Baptist Church
November 24Early Play-By-Play Radio Broadcast of a College Football Game
November 25First Battle of Adobe Walls
November 26The Grass Fight
November 27Mercy Hospital
November 28Adina Emilia de Zavala
November 29Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Von Herff
November 30Houston City, Republic of Texas

December

December 1Doniphan Expedition
December 2Col. Lewis Miles Hobbs Washington
December 3Gregg County Discovery Oil Well, F. K. Lathrop A-1, Aransas Fuel Oil Co.
December 4Nuecestown Cemetery
December 5William Daniel Durham
December 6William Richardson
December 7Doris Miller
December 8Del Valle Army Air Base (Bergstrom Air Force Base)
December 9Arlington Heights Lodge No. 1184, A.F. and A.M
December 10Spanish-American War Fortifications
December 11Amon G. Carter
December 12Site of: The Antlers Hotel Fire of 1929
December 13Conroe Oil Field
December 14Parson McClelland School
December 15John Silas Edens
December 16Port Arthur-Beaumont Interurban Railway
December 17Paschal Paolo Borden
December 18Littleton Rattan
December 19Site of Old Lubbock
December 20Presidio de Nuestra Senora de Loreto de la Bahia
December 21The Mier Expedition
December 22George Washington Green
December 23Peter Leroy Colombo
December 24Panna Maria, Texas
December 25Galveston, C. S. A.
December 26St. John's Lutheran Church, "the Rooster Church"
December 27Holland Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M. of Texas
December 28Lou Della Crim Home
December 29Anson Jones
December 30The Archive War
December 31Colonel Robert Simonton Gould

Hear thousands of these as you drive.

Duane reads Texas historical markers out loud, hands-free, in his own voice. He's on the App Store now, ready to ride along on your next drive.

Download Duane on the App Store

See everything the Texas historical markers app can do →