Birthplace of the Texas Oil Industry

First important oil field in Texas

opened here Oct. 15, 1895.

First successful refinery in Texas

Completed Christmas Day , 1898

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Plaque presented to

The Citizens of Corsicana

by the

Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association

Marker can be reached from S 12th ...

Brunswick County / Greensville County

Brunswick County

Formed in 1720 from Prince George, Surry, and Isle of Wight. Named for the House of Brunswick, which came to the throne of England in 1714, when George I was crowned king. Colonial Fort Christanna was in this county.

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Bethel Shipyard

With the incorporation of the Lewisville Marine

Railway Company in 1871, Bethel’s reputation as

a center for ship repair and construction was

firmly established. Approximately 40 vessels

were built here before the last ship was

launched in 1918. Many were ...

Company C 194th Tank Battalion

[First Plaque:]

On the morning of February 18th, 1941, one hundred and five brave men of Company C 194th Tank Battalion of the Salinas and Pajaro Valleys marched four abreast down Main Street, through what is now called Old town Salinas, ...

Peach Tree Southern Railway (Brookwood Station)

Peachtree Southern Railway, now known as Brookwood Station, is the last passenger terminal in Atlanta, a city which owes its existence to railroads. Representing a fine example of a suburban railroad terminal, it is the work of the eminent Atlanta ...

Brookwood Hills Historic District

Brookwood Hills is a well-defined residential area that incorporates the major architectural, landscape, and planning elements of suburban development of the early 1920s. In 1912, Benjamin F. Burdett and a partner had purchased approximately 50 acres of land from the ...

Beth El Cemetery

In 1869, when Simerall Goldbach donated land to Temple Beth El for a Jewish cemetery, Beth El's founding president Gerson Forcheimer received the deed. The earliest grave is for one of Goldbach's children, Abraham, who died of yellow fever in ...

Henry Brash House (The Porches)

Henry Brash built this yellow pine house in 1865. The porches were added in 1890. Brash, a Confederate soldier, sponge fisherman and local merchant, and his wife Henrietta raised 11 children in this house. They kashered (ritually cleansed) their dishes ...

Korean War Liberty Tree Memorial

In memory of the

men, women & POW-MIA

who fought in the

Korean War

1950 - 1953

Dedicated November 11, 2003

Marker is on Summit Street (U.S. 77) north of Maple Avenue when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church

2 Miles North East

Organized prior to 1756. Present building constructed 1818—the third on site. First two buildings of logs. Was also used for secular education until 1848. Among early ministers: H. McAden, Jas. Hall, S. Stanford, C. Lindsay.

Marker is at ...