Blog: Texas Historical Markers

16 Tons in Texas

If you are driving down US 79, just outside Rockdale, Texas, you will come across the "La Recluta and La Escuelita" historical marker set...

The Rutervilles College Student Who Became Santa Anna's Adopted Son

Rutersville College has a surprisingly strong connection to these two events, as many of its male students were involved.

Rutersville: Methodist Colleges and Sex Scandals

Hiding behind this sign is a Methodist College and a sex scandal.

"Taking the Waters" at the Lampasas Sulphur Springs

In the Texas Almanac for 1868, Gideon Lincecum (the man with the controversial description of ants) praised the medicinal waters of Texas...

History is Not Markers, It's Perspectives

There is a larger conversation happening right now across the country involving statues and memorials and the way we as national and...

Gideon Lincecum: Ants, Homeopathy, and "Slangwhangers"

If you are on Farm to Market Road 390 near Burton, you might stumble across this historical marker. And, oh boy, does it leave me with...

Chisholm Cattle Trail: Once Upon a Time, Texas Had Way Too Many Cows

If you wander along HWY 21 near Dime Box, Texas, and are looking for it, you just might find this vague historical marker for the...

A Bit of Local History Gone: E.A. Kemp

I will be upfront at the beginning of this post and tell you that it is not about a historical marker on some wonderful back-road of...

Thomas Affleck: Gayly Setting the Standards for Plantations Everywhere

Brazos River Levee: The Little Levee That Couldn't But Then Got Its Act Together and Could

This historical marker is located on HWY 50 just off 21 near Whiskey Bridge (which deserves its own post at some point). A part of the...