Galveston County Historical Markers
Galveston County has 311 Texas historical markers across 16 towns and communities. 109 of them mark Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. The earliest went up in 1932.
- Markers
- 311
- Mapped
- 299
- Landmarks
- 109
10 listed by the THC as missing
Common subjects here: Historic Homes, Churches and Congregations, Military History, African American History, Towns and Communities, Women's History
Galveston 233
- 1871 Thomas Jefferson League Building 1979
- A. Wilkins Miller Cottage 1983
- Adolph and Regina Frenkel House 2020
- Adriance-Springer House 1989
- Albertine Hall Yeager 2021
- Albertson Home 2014
- American National Insurance Company 1972
- American Red Cross, Galveston County Chapter 1994
- Ashbel Smith, 1805-1886 1967
- Ashton Villa, 1859 1967
- Old Austin Home 1962
- Avenue L Missionary Baptist Church 1981
- Baden-Sproule House 1989
- Ball High School 1988
- Old Ball Home 1962
- Battle of Galveston
- Bernard Moore Temple 1976
- Best-Lucas House 2005
- The Bishop's Palace 1967
- Boddeker House 2001
- Burial Site of David G. Burnet 1967
- C. F. Marschner Building 1997
- Campbell Home 1962
- Captain William S. Fisher 1936
- Carl and Hilda Biehl House 2012
- Carmelo "Charles" Bertolino 1994
- Catherine Isabel Cox Sherman 1936
- Cedar Lawn 2008
- Clarke-Jockusch Home 1965
- Confederate Mariner: Leon Smith 1965
- Congregation B'nai Israel Rabbi Henry Cohen Memorial Temple (RTHL) 2021
- Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue 1967
- The Cottage 1966
- The Cradle 1962
- David Ayers 1990
- Davidson-Penland House 2011
- Dominican Sisters Congregation of the Sacred Heart 1993
- Dr. Frederick K. and Lucy Adelaide Fisher House 1993
- E. S. Levy and Company 1966
- Early History of Galveston County 1966
- Eaton Memorial Chapel 1970
- Engine House No. 3 2018
- Exploration of Galveston County 1966
- First Baptist Church of Galveston 1998
- First Hutchings-Sealy National Bank 1971 Listed as missing
- First Lutheran Church 1969 Listed as missing
- First Navy of the Republic of Texas 1936
- First Presbyterian Church 1968
- First Union Baptist Church 1993
- First Wharf in Galveston 1936
- Former Site of Heidenheimer's Castle 1978
- Franklin-Wandless House 1999
- Frederich-Erhard House 1990
- Frederick William Beissner House 1990
- Gaido's Famous Seafood Restaurant 2014
- Gail Borden, Jr. 1936
- Galveston "News," C. S.A. 1964
- Galveston Artillery Club 2004
- Galveston Chamber of Commerce 1970
- Galveston County Communities 1966
- Galveston County, 1901 - 1965 1967
- Galveston Garten Verein 1971
- Galveston Historical Foundation 2002
- Galveston Immigration Stations 1993
- Galveston in the Republic of Texas 1965
- Galveston Island 1967
- Old Galveston Market House and City Hall 2014
- Galveston Medical College 1968
- The Galveston Movement 2008
- Galveston Office of the National Weather Service 1971
- Galveston Orphans Home 2015
- Galveston Quarantine Stations 1993
- Galveston Seawall 2014
- Site of Galveston Seminary 1967
- Galveston, C. S. A. 1965
- Galveston: Gateway to Texas 1965
- Galveston's African American Lifeguards 2022
- General Sidney Sherman 1936
- George Campbell Childress 1991
- George Campbell Childress 1932
- George Dealey 1976
- George Fox House 1981
- George H. Nicholls 2013
- George Seeligson Home 1976
- George Washington Chapter - DAR 1976
- Grace Episcopal Church 1967
- Grand Opera House 1894 1990
- Greek Orthodox Cemetery 2014
- Greenleve, Block & Co. Building 2010 Listed as missing
- Greensville S. Dowell 1986
- Grover-Chambers House 1976
- Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company 1993
- Hagemann-Cobb House 1982
- Hawes Summer Home 2011
- The Heidenheimer Bros. - Marine Building 1986 Listed as missing
- Heidenheimer-Hunter Building 1987 Listed as missing
- Helen E. Ebert 2018
- Hendley's Row 1981
- Henry C. Henck, Jr. House 1991
- Henry Journeay 1936
- Henry Rosenberg Home 1962
- Holy Rosary Catholic Church 2017
- Site of the Home of Michael Branaman Menard 1936
- Homesite of Adolph Dolson 1986
- Homesite of Dr. William Keiller 1988
- Hotel Galvez 1980
- Hutchings House 1962
- Hutchings House 1962
- Hutchings, Sealy & Co. Buildings 1993
- Isaac H. and Henrietta Kempner House 1994
- Isaac Heffron House 2016
- Isabella Offenbach Maas Residence 1986
- The Italian Vault 1992
- J. F. Smith & Brothers (STOLEN) 1962
- J. F. Smith House 1990
- J. Levy & Bro. 1992
- Jack Johnson 2010
- Jackie Andrews Private School 1962 Listed as missing
- Jacobs Home 1977
- James Love 1986
- James N. Davis House 1979
- James S. Waters House 2016
- Jean Lafitte 1965
- Jessie May McGuire Dent 2020
- John and Eliza Hertford House 1993
- John Bankhead Magruder 1994
- John M. Jones House 1979
- John Overton Trueheart 1986
- John Smith House 1987
- Julius H. Ruhl Residence 1984
- Juneteenth 2014
- Lafitte's Grove 1936
- Landes-McDonough House 1973
- Lasker Home for Children 1980
- League-Kempner House 2024
- Lent Munson Hitchcock 1994
- Leon & H. Blum Co. Building 1986
- Levi Charles Meyers Harby 2014
- Lockhart House 1981
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall 1963
- Lt. Commander Edward Lea 2005
- The Maas House 1976
- Magale Building 1978
- Site of Magnolia Grove Cemetery 1993
- Major John M. Allen 1936
- Major Leon Dyer 2011
- Mallory-Produce Building 1962
- Mardi Gras in Galveston 2017
- Mary A. Oppermann Vault 2024
- Mathilda Wehmeyer German-American Kindergarten School 2017
- Maud Moller House 1983
- Menard-Ganter House 1992
- The Mexican Telegraph Company_The Zimmermann Telegram 2017
- Michel B. Menard 1994
- Miss Galveston/Santa Maria 2019
- Moody Hall 2017
- The Moody Home 1967
- Nahor Biggs Yard 1993
- Near Campsites of Louis-Michel Aury and Francisco Xavier Mina 1968
- Nicholas D. Labadie 2002
- Nicholas J. Clayton 1982
- Norris Wright Cuney 1989
- Olga Samaroff 2016
- Open Gates 1962
- The Original Galveston Seawall 1975
- Original Oleander Planting in Galveston 1970
- Original Site of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum 1994
- Peter Leroy Colombo 2008
- Pier 19, Mosquito Fleet Berth 1974
- Poole-Parker House 1980
- Powhatan and Mattie Wren House 2007
- Powhatan House 1967
- Public Education for Blacks in Galveston 1977
- Quigg-Baulard Cottage 2016
- Rabbi Henry Cohen 1980
- Reconstruction to 1900, Galveston County 1967
- Old Red, Ashbel Smith Building 1969
- Reedy Chapel A. M. E. Church 1975
- Reedy Chapel A. M. E. Church 1975
- The Rev. Henry P. Young 1992
- The Rosenberg Library 1970
- Rosewood Cemetery 2010
- The Rt. Rev. Monsignor James Martin Kirwin 1989
- The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Marius Etienne Chataignon 1991
- Sacred Heart Church 1981
- Samuel May Williams 1986
- Samuel May Williams 1935
- Santa Fe Union Station 1983
- Schreiber-Miller Warehouse 1962
- Scottish Rite Masonry in Texas 1970
- Sealy and Mary Hutchings House 2021
- Shiloh A. M. E. Church 1971
- Smith-Hartley House 2019
- Sonnentheil Home 1962
- SS Selma 1995
- St. Joseph's Church 1978
- St. Mary's Cathedral 1967
- St. Mary's Hospital 1980
- St. Patrick Catholic Church 1996
- St. Paul United Methodist Church 1990
- The Stewart Building 1978
- Stewart Property 1983
- Sweeney-Royston House 1978
- Texas Bar Association 1989
- Texas Revolution and Civil War, Galveston County 1967
- Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution 1991
- Thomas Chubb House 1981
- Thomas Henry Borden 1936
- Thomas Joseph 1986
- Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church 1965
- Trube House 1965
- Trueheart-Adriance Building 1973
- Site of Ursuline Convent and Academy 1996
- Ursuline Convent in the Civil War 1963
- Ursuline Nuns in Galveston 1997
- Valentine T. Dalton 1935
- Victor Gustafson Home 1985
- W. P. Ballinger Law Firm 1967
- Warren D. C. Hall 1993
- Washington Hotel 1991
- Wegner House 2014
- Wesley Tabernacle United Methodist Church 2007
- West Galveston Island 1967
- West Point Baptist Church 1990
- Wilbur Cherry 1936
- The Wilbur Cherry House 1981
- William and Adele Skinner House 2017
- William and Lena Juneman Smith 2016
- William J. Killeen House 1980
- William Lewis Moody, Jr. 1971
- William Tennant Austin 1971
- Williams-Tucker House, 1837-40 1964
- World War I Physicians from Galveston 2018
Texas City 26
- Site of Austinia 1993
- Old Bay Lake Ranch 1967
- Booker T. Washington School 1997
- Civil War Fortifications at Virginia Point 1991 Listed as missing
- Davison Home 1967
- First Aero Squadron 1968
- First Baptist Church of Texas City 2005
- First Methodist Church of Texas City 1993
- First Texas City Refinery, The 1996
- Greater Bell Zion Missionary Baptist Church 2012
- Old H. B. Moore Home 1968 Listed as missing
- Site Of Landmark Campbell's Bayou 1968
- Phillips Memorial Cemetery 2010
- Settlement Community 2007
- Shoal Point and Half Moon Shoal Lighthouse 1991
- Sociedad Mutualista Mexicana in Texas City 1998
- St. George's Episcopal Church 2003
- Texas City 1993
- Texas City Dike 1994
- The Texas City Disaster 1990
- Texas City Memorial Cemetery 1991
- Texas City Terminal Railway Company 1994
- Texas Sugar Refining Company 1998
- U. S. Army Camp at Texas City 1994
- Wedell's Corner 1968
- William Jefferson Jones 1993
League City 9
Santa Fe 9
Hitchcock 7
- Camp Wallace 1996 Listed as missing
- City of Hitchcock 1973
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church 2002
- Hitchcock Depot 1993
- Lorraine Crosby School 2015
- Stringfellow Orchards 1992
- U. S. Naval Air Station (Blimp Base) 1989
Dickinson 6
Port Bolivar 5
- Bolivar Point 1995
- Crenshaw Family Cemetery 2004
- Fort Travis 1993
- Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long 2010
- Point Bolivar 1936
Friendswood 4
- Cecil and Frances Brown House 1997
- Fig Industry in Friendswood 1994
- Friends Church Cemetery 2006
- Friendswood 1967
La Marque 3
- Frank Bell, Jr. 1994
- La Marque 1991
- Paul's Union Church
Bacliff 2
- Site of Clifton-by-the-Sea 2001
- San Leon 2001
High Island 2
- Charles Cronea 1996
- High Island 1996 Listed as missing
Clear Lake Shores 1
Gilchrist 1
- Rollover Fish Pass 1963
Jamaica Beach 1
- Karankawa Campsite 1966
Kemah 1
- Kemah 1993
San Leon 1
- San Leon Cemetery 2001
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