Texas, Aransas County, Rockport
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Aransas County Judge W.H. Baldwin, who promoted Rockport as a deep water port, lived in this house in the 1890s. George A. Brundrett, Jr., was a Confederate veteran and cattle rancher on 15,000 acres on Matagorda Island; his family lived here from 1917-1942. Brundrett’s second wife, Flavilla, often turned the parlor into a makeshift hospital, and it is said that 200 people took shelter here during the 1919 hurricane. This one-story house retains its basic design from the 1880s and exemplifies the Queen Anne style adapted to the Texas coast. The house has a front facing gable, hip roof, lace-like corner brackets, and its original windows and doors. The only modification has been the enclosure of the back porch.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 2011
Marker is property of the State of Texas
(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Aransas County Judge W.H. Baldwin, who promoted Rockport as a deep water port, lived in this house in the 1890s. George A. Brundrett, Jr., was a Confederate veteran and cattle rancher on 15,000 acres on Matagorda Island; his family lived here from 1917-1942. Brundrett’s second wife, Flavilla, often turned the parlor into a makeshift hospital, and it is said that 200 people took shelter here during the 1919 hurricane. This one-story house retains its basic design from the 1880s and exemplifies the Queen Anne style adapted to the Texas coast. The house has a front facing gable, hip roof, lace-like corner brackets, and its original windows and doors. The only modification has been the enclosure of the back porch.Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 2011
Marker is property of the State of Texas
(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Croxton's Brigade
By Legislative Act
[Text on the first of two tablets]:
In 1865, Reverend Isaac Adkins of the
Methodist Protestant Church began to
conduct services in Dorothy School House.
The congregation was formally organized
the following year. Meetings continued
to be held in the school until 1873,
when adjoining property was obtained
and the present church was constructed.
Formally designated as Trinity M. P.
Church, it became part of a circuit
that once included Shiloh, St. Paul’s,
and Providence. The church was extensively
rebuilt in 1907. After the closing of
the school the congregation continued
to use the structure as a Community Hall.
Damaged by a major storm in October 1954,
the old building was moved to a nearby
location and the present hall was
constructed in its place. Facilities
were further expanded in 1968 with the
construction of a new Sunday School addition.
Stanley's Brigade
Built in 1880, this house originally was the residence of Dr. John R. Smith, who served as the mayor of Corsicana from 1883 until 1885. During his term of office, Smith organized the volunteer fire department and helped Navarro County set up a poor farm at Petty's Chapel, where prisoners without money could work off their fines. In 1898 the home was purchased by Mrs. A. W. McCrery, a widow who brought her ten daughters and her mother-in-law to live here. The house remained in the McCrery family until 1967.
Oroville State Theatre
Edison Ore Mining & Miocene Mining Co. Oct. 1879 to May 1881 by Major Frank McLaughlin searched for platinum to use in Edison’s electric light globe. Used a process to remove gold from black sands found in mine tailings.
"Site of 1st Sawmill erected by Argonaut Parlor No. 8 Native Sons and Gold of Ophir Parlor No. 190 Native Daughters, commemorating the Bicentennial Year 1776 – 1976”
This building
For centuries, acorns have been a major food source for many California Indian groups. Nutritious and easy to store, processed acorns could be served as soup, mixed with fruit or meat, or baked into a cake.
Among the first African-American Baptist congregations in Hill County were the churches at Towash (organized in 1869), Lofer's Bend, and near Aquilla. These three congregations were united in 1883 to form the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church. Pleasant Hill's original building was demolished and the cornerstone laid for a new structure in 1894. Church trustees purchased the church lot from Dr. D. R. Wallace of Waco in 1901. The congregation had grown to about 100 members by 1907. More than 100 years later the members carry on the traditions of worship and community instilled by the early Pleasant Hill congregation.
“General Nelson…was excelled by no man in the generosity of his nature, in the nobleness of his sentiments, in the purity of his Revolutionary principles, and in the exalted patriotism that answered every service and sacrifice that his country might need.” James Madison, 1789
Across the field to your right, Hudson Allan's plantation building dominated the 1781 scene. Barns and sheds as well as mansions were useful to the French for field hospital purposes.
This sluggish and marshy headwater of the Warwick River generally divided the French and American encampments. Although both forces were under Washington, separate unit organization was respected and preserved through the siege.
Gravel Range Lodge No. 59 was granted dispensation on June 29, 1854. The charter was granted May 4, 1855. There was an original membership of 28 members. The first meetings were held over a store, which was later destroyed by fire. There were three other buildings that were all destroyed by fires until the present building was completed in 1948. Forest Lodge No. 66 was consolidated with Gravel Range in 1955, and both celebrated 100 years of Masonry in 1954. In 2002 Gravel Range Lodge and Mtn. Shade Lodge of Downieville, consolidated and became Mtn. Range No. 18. This plaque was set on July 30, 2004 in rededication ceremonies conducted by Howard D. Kirkpatrick, Grand Master of Masons in California and Gary L. Schlusser, Master of Mtn. Range Lodge.
