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.

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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.

__________

Erected by the New Jersey Society,

Sons of the American Revolution

September 15, 1919

In grateful recognition ...

Old Bakery

Built 1876 by Chas. Lundberg. Bread then was not sliced or wrapped; children and maids waited with baskets to take home loaves hot from the oven. House specialties were sponge cake ladyfingers, glazed kisses, almond-meal macaroons.

A front balcony (since razed) ...

M.M. Long’s Livery Stable and Opera House

When M.M. Long and his family moved here from Bastrop in the 1860s, the first floor of this structure served as the livery stable for Long’s Austin to Burnet and Lampasas stage line. On the second floor Long ran an ...

Here the British Turned

Here the British turned into Galloping Hill Road from Elizabethtown to Connecticut Farms and Springfield at the time of the battles June 7 and 23, 1780.

Washington afterwards said of the New Jersey militia “They flew to arms universally, and acted ...

Veedersburg - VanBuren Township War Memorial

1919 - 1991

American Legion

Veedersburg Post 288

In Memory of those from

Veedersburg & Vanburen Twp.

who served, and those who

gave their lives in the

service of their Country.

[Left Side]:

World War I

Lozan R. Bantz • Robert Edwards • Charles Forrest • Alva Gressmire • Frank ...

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 ...

Jacksonboro

The establishment of Jacksonboro as the county seat of Screven County was authorized by an Act of the General Assembly, Feb. 1, 1797.

James H. Rutherford, Francis Jones, Martin Martin, Anthony Bonnell, Sr., and Stephen Pearce were appointed Commissioners to `purchase ...

Brigadier General William Thompson

1736 - 1781

The First Colonel of the U.S. Army

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