Original Site Of San Miguel School

Original Site of San Miguel School

1888 - 1950

Donated by the citizens of San Miguel

Designed by Bunn H. Turnbow

Marker is on K Street 0.2 miles north of 10th Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Old Wallisville

Site of

Old Wallisville

Settled in 1825 by Elisha H. R. Wallis, a pioneer from Georgia, on land in grant of Joseph Vehlein, a contractor working to place colonists in Texas.

Chambers County was organized 1858; Wallisville was made county seat. A post ...

Willow Glen

Willow Glen was first inhabited by the Chukchansi Indians. The grinding holes and other artifacts indicate that they have lived in this area since prehistoric times. In 1870 a stage road was built and in 1897 John McGinity homesteaded at ...

Peyton Randolph House

For more than fifty years this was the home of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775), who served the Colony of Virginia in many of its highest governmental offices and became the first president of the Continental Congress. His father, Sir John Randolph, ...

The Governor's Palace and Gardens

The Governor's Palace was the home of five Royal Lieutenant-Governors, two Royal Governors, and the first two Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. An act by Virginia's General Assembly in 1706 authorized the construction of ...

Children's Area

Children were a significant part of the worldwide response in April 1995, responding with words of encouragement and messages of hope - for Rescue Workers specifically - and Oklahomans in general. Thousands of ceramic tiles were sent to Oklahoma in ...

White Lake CCC Camp

An installation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Initiated modern park improvements. Established here 1835; closed 1942.

Marker is on U.S. 701 just north of North Carolina Route 41, on the right when traveling south.

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The Field of Empty Chairs

You are entering the area where the Alfred P. Murrah Building once stood. The granite used on this pathway was salvaged from the Murrah Building. The Field of Empty Chairs is a tribute to the 168 Americans who were killed ...

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Luz

Site of

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Luz

Established in 1757 by Franciscan missionaries with the purpose of civilizing and Christianizing the Orcoquiza and Bidai Indians. Abandoned in 1772.

Marker is on Feeder Road to Interstate 10 0.3 miles west of Wallisville Liberty ...

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Luz del Orcoquisac and Presidio San

Two of the most misfortune-ridden outposts of Spain in texas, “Our Lady of the Light” mission and its auxiliary fort, were founded near here in 1756 to guard against French encroachment from the east.

The two friars who were to minister ...