First Presbyterian Church of Bartlett

Built for congregation originally called Nazareth Church of the Central Texas Presbytery, and constituted on Indian Creek in June 1875. Reorganized here in 1897.

Sanctuary erected in 1899. Victorian architecture.

Marker is on West Pietzsch Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First United Methodist Church of Bartlett

Organized between 1870 and 1875 as the Indian Creek Church, this congregation moved to Bartlett about 1885. Services were held in a store, schoolhouse, and Baptist church before construction of a Methodist church in 1890. Built in 1896, the present ...

In Remembrance of Abraham Clark

In remembrance of

Abraham Clark

1726 – 1794

A signer of the Declaration of Independence

from New Jersey

He lived on this site during the formative period of the republic.

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Erected by the New Jersey Society,

Sons of the American Revolution

September 15, 1919

In grateful recognition ...

Famous Town Hall Visitors

Many famous individuals were invited to visit the President’s retreat on the Rapidan River. Among these was Charles A. Lindbergh, the first aviator to fly non-stop from New York to Paris, France in 1927. Lindbergh donated the large parchment lamp ...

Littlefield Home

George W. Littlefield (1842-1920) came to Texas with his family in 1850. He served in the Civil War with Terry’s Texas Rangers, attaining the rank of Major. Following the war he became a cattleman and acquired ranches in New Mexico ...

The Wilderness Road Crossing of the Clinch River

In 1775 Daniel Boone and a group of axmen, following a Native American trade route, blazed a trail from the Anderson Blockhouse to a site on the Kentucky River. This trail, later to become the Wilderness Road, traversed 200 miles ...

Littlefield Building

George Washington Littlefield (1842-1920) came to Texas from Mississippi in 1850. After serving in Terry’s Texas Rangers in the Civil War, he made his fortune ranching and driving cattle. He moved to Austin in 1883 and, in 1890, established the ...

Battle of Ezra Ch.

Gen. S. D. Lee’s Corps

July 26, 1864. Brown’s & Clayton’s divs., Lee’s Corps [CS] led off the attack on the 15th corps [US] posted some 400 yds. N. of this rd.

Brown’s brigades: Johnston’s, Sharp’s & Brantly’s, were deployed W. ...

Battle of Ezra Ch.

Gen. J. C. Brown’s Div.

July 28, 1864. The 4 brigades of Brown’s Div., S. D. Lee’s A. C. [CS], deployed in this area, made the initial assaults on the Federal right flank posted on the ridge just N. E. Their ...

First United Methodist Church

1883

The First United Methodist Church was established August 1, 1880. It was the first church organized in the new settlement of DeLand. Three years later, this building was completed for worship services. It was a simple frame structure with a ...