Harris County Historical Markers
Harris County has 496 Texas historical markers across 27 towns and communities. 104 of them mark Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. The earliest went up in 1936.
- Markers
- 496
- Mapped
- 452
- Landmarks
- 104
4 listed by the THC as missing
Common subjects here: Churches and Congregations, African American History, Military History, Texas Revolution and the Republic, Historic Homes, Women's History
Houston 353
- _H7 Ranch 1993
- "Constitution" Bend 1970
- 1840 Houston City Cemetery 2009
- 1940 Knapp Chevrolet Building 2022
- A. M. Armand House 2013
- Site of Academy of the Incarnate Word 1972
- Acres Homes Community 2008
- Aldine 1999
- Alief Cemetery 1984
- Allen's Landing 1967
- Almeda 1992
- Amos B. Edson 1936
- Ancient Order of Pilgrims 2005
- Anderson, Clayton & Co. 2004
- Angelo and Lillian Minella House 2006
- Annunciation Church 1969
- Anson Jones 2009
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church 1994
- Archibald S. Lewis 1936
- Archibald Wynns 2009
- Arthur B. Cohn House 1985
- Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church 2009
- Astrodome 2018
- Auditorium Hotel 1984
- Augustus Chapman Allen 2005
- Autry House 1994
- Baker-Jones House 1991
- Barbara Charline Jordan 2012
- Battle of San Jacinto 1964
- Site of Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 1964
- Bayou Bend 1973
- Bear Creek Methodist Church and Cemetery 1994
- Belle Sherman Kendall 2001
- Benjamin Apartments 2001
- Bering Memorial United Methodist Church 1984
- Beth Israel Cemetery 2005
- Beth Yeshurun Synagogue 2019
- Bethany Baptist Church 2006
- Bethel Baptist Church 2011
- The Blue Bird Circle 2001
- Blue Triangle Branch, Y. W. C. A. Building 2002
- Bonin Family Cemetery 2010
- Booker T. Washington High School 2010
- Boynton Chapel Methodist Church 2023
- Brown Chapel A. M. E. Church 1989
- Bryan-Chapman House 1998
- Camp Logan 1992
- Caspar Braun 1989
- Charles W. Luckie School 2022
- Charlotte Marie Baldwin Allen 2009
- Chinese Texans and Civil Rights 2009
- Christ Church Cathedral 1972
- Clayton House 1988
- Clayton, W. L. and Susan 2003
- College Memorial Park Cemetery 2002
- Colonel Benjamin Franklin Terry 1963
- Colored Carnegie Library 2023
- Colt Stadium 2024
- Site of Confederate Prison Compound 1965
- Cooley School 2013
- Courtlandt Place 1989
- Dairy (Alief) 1990
- Damascus Missionary Baptist Church 1992
- Daniel Denton Cooley 1991
- Darius Gregg 1973
- Daughters of the Republic of Texas 1986
- David Barker House 1991
- David Finney Stuart, M.D. 2009
- David Grieves 1936
- David Porter Richardson 1936
- Dawson Lunnon Cemetery 2024
- Democratic National Convention, 1928 1988
- DePelchin Faith Home 1984
- Dora B. Lantrip Elementary School 2010
- Dr. B.F. and Ethel Reed Coop House 2019
- Dr. Benjamin Jesse Covington and the Covington House 1994
- Dr. John H. Foster House 2012
- Dr. Penn B. and Annie A. Thornton House 1998
- Dr. Thomas F. Freeman 2020
- Edmundson House 2019
- Edward & Katharine Jackson House 2016
- Edward K. T. Chen 2009
- Edward Mandell House 1989
- Edward R. and Ann Taylor 2002
- Edwin and Daphne Neville House 2014
- Edwin Fairfax Gray 1936
- El Barrio del Alacrán 2013
- Eldorado Ballroom 2011
- Eli Noland 1936
- Ellington Field 2006
- Ellis Benson 2008
- Emmanuel Baptist Church 2006
- Eugene Thomas Heiner 2000
- Evergreen Cemetery 1993
- Evergreen Negro Cemetery 2023
- Ewart H. and Lillian Lightfoot House 2024
- Ezekial and Mary Jane Miller House 1984
- F.C.L. and Emilie Neuhaus House 2002
- Fair Grounds Base Ball Park 2014
- Farnsworth & Chambers Building 2009
- Felix Tijerina 2009
- Fielding G. Secrest 1936
- First Attorney General of Texas David Thomas 1965
- First Baptist Church of Houston 2001
- First Evangelical Church 2002
- First Presbyterian Church of Houston 1970
- First Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church 2014
- First United Methodist Church of Houston 2009
- Site of the First White House of the Republic of Texas 1936 Listed as missing
- Fondren Mansion 1989
- Forum of Civics of River Oaks Garden Club 1964
- Founders' Memorial Park Cemetery 2005
- Fourth Missionary Baptist Church 2007
- The Frenchtown Community 2007
- Frost Town 2008
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church 2006
- The Garden Club of Houston 1999
- Garrow House 1997
- Site of General Offices, Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad 1967
- Genoa United Methodist Church 2011
- George Allen 1973
- George Thomas "Mickey" Leland III 2021
- George Washington Carver High School 2007
- Gilmer-Cage-Cohn House 2008
- Glendale Cemetery 1970
- Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church 2006
- Goodman House 2023
- Gov. John B. Connally, Jr. Home 2012
- Grace United Methodist Church 2001
- Grand Court Order of Calanthe of Texas 2011
- Gravesite of John Kirby Allen 1968
- Gray Lodge No. 329, A. F. & A. M. 1991
- Greater Ward A.M.E. Church 2015
- Greater Zion Missionary Baptist Church 2008
- Gregory School 2019
- Gulf Building 2007
- Gustav August Forsgard 2005
- Hamilton Shirts 2017
- Harper House 2001
- Harris County 1972
- Harris County Courthouse of 1910 1984
- Harris County Department of Education 2003
- Old Harrisburg 1965
- Harrisburg-Jackson Cemetery 2000
- Harvey Homan 1936
- Heights Church of Christ 1990
- Henry Livingston Thompson 1936
- Heritage Presbyterian Church 1980
- Hidalgo Park Quiosco 2010
- Hillendahl Cemetery 2004
- Hogg Building 1981
- Holcombe House 1991
- Holland Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M. of Texas 1970
- Hollywood Cemetery 2009
- Holy Cross Mission (Episcopal) 1973
- Home of Mrs. Margaret McCormick 1936
- Horace Dickinson Taylor 1993
- Hortense Sparks Malsch Ward 2010
- Houston 1965
- Houston Arboretum & Nature Center 2020
- Houston Bar Association 1991
- Houston Cemetery Company 2009
- Houston City, Republic of Texas 1965
- The Houston Club 2004
- Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade 1974
- Houston Fire Station No. 7 1988
- Houston Heights 1991
- Houston Heights City Hall and Fire Station 2001
- Houston Heights Odd Fellows Lodge No. 225 Hall 2021
- Houston Heights Woman's Club 2011
- Houston Infirmary 2010
- The Houston Light Guard 1982
- Houston Light Guard Armory 1992
- Houston Negro Chamber of Commerce 2008
- Houston Public Library 2004
- Houston's Deep-Water Port 2013
- Houston's First Sit-In 2009
- Howard Cottonseed Oil Company 2015
- Huelga Schools 2016
- Hugo Victor Neuhaus, Jr. House 2005
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church 2011
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church 2024
- Independence Heights 1989 Listed as missing
- Irvin Capers Lord 1986
- J. Robert Neal Estate Garden 2018
- J. Vance Lewis 2008
- Jackson's Barber Shop & Beauty Salon 2019
- James Collinsworth 1936
- James D. Burrus Elementary School 2020
- James Judson and Lena Carter Carroll House 1997
- James L. Autry House 2010
- James Robert Cade 2016
- James S. and Alfred T. Lucas 2016
- Jefferson Davis Hospital 2008
- Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church 2004
- Jethro Russell Bancroft 1936
- John & Bessie Parker House 2011
- John Cheevers 1936
- John Kirby Allen 1936
- John M. Dorrance House 1991
- John Milroy House 1979
- John R. Reid 1936
- John Richardson 1936
- John Sessums, Jr. 2009
- John Thomas Biggers 2012
- John Viven 1936
- John W. Moore 1936
- Jones-Hunt House 2010
- Jordan Grove Missionary Baptist Church 2001
- Joseph Ehlinger 1936
- Julia Ideson Building 2003
- Kellum-Noble House 1967
- The Kennedy Bakery 1981
- The Kinkaid School 1981
- KUHT-TV, Channel 8 2012
- League of United Latin American Citizens, Council 60 2004
- The Legacy of Emancipation Park 2017
- Link-Lee House 2001
- Lola Ann Cullum 2023
- Lorenzo de Zavala 1968
- Lorenzo de Zavala 1936
- Louis Wiltz Kemp 2013
- Site of Lubbock Ranch 1970
- M. D. Anderson 1993
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church 2011
- Magnolia Brewery Building 2003
- Magnolia Cemetery 2002
- Magnolia Park 2009
- Magnolia Park City Hall and Central Fire Station 2009
- Major Isaac N. Moreland 1936
- Major Richard William (Dick) Dowling, C. S. A. 1998
- Old Market Square 1969
- Married Ladies Social, Art & Charity Club 2010
- Matthew Burnett Homesite 1993
- Matthews-Johnson House 2008
- Maurice Joseph Sullivan 2011
- Maybee, Jacob 1936
- McDaniel Street Cemetery 2023
- Merchants and Manufacturers Building 1984
- Mexican Cavalry, Battle of San Jacinto 1936
- Minchen House 1999
- Mollie Bailey 1989
- Moore Log House 1996
- Moore, Jim 1936
- Moses W. Brigham 1936
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church 2002
- Mount Vernon United Methodist Church 1977
- Mrs. Rebecca Lamar 1936
- Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church 2007
- Mt. Vernon Baptist Church 2021
- Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church 2009
- Mulcahy House 2014
- The Murals of Hannah Hall 2012
- Myer-Hall House 2011
- Myers-Spalti Manufacturing Plant 2002
- Ned A. & Linda S. Eppes House 1998
- New Zion Temple Church - Worldwide Fellowship, Inc. 2011
- Nichols-Rice-Cherry House 1967
- Site of Old Houston Academy 1965
- Olivewood Cemetery 2008
- Site of the Organization of Lady Washington Chapter, NSDAR 2009
- Original site of the Houston Coca-Cola Bottling Company 2002
- Origins of Freedman's Town 2004
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church 1991
- Payne Chapel A.M.E. Church 2022
- Peacock Records 2010
- Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ 2009
- Pillot Building 1991
- Pillot House 1967
- Pioneer Memorial Log House 1997
- The Playhouse Theatre 2010
- Pleasantville 2017
- Prairie Grove Cemetery 2007
- Radio Station KLVL 2018
- Reagan Masonic Lodge No. 1037 A. F. & A. M. 2010
- Rev. John "Jack" Henry Yates 2009
- The Rev. William M. Tryon 1998
- The Reverend Ned P. Pullum 2006
- Rice University 2011
- Robert Barr 1936
- Robert W. Montgomery 1936
- Roy and Lillie Cullen Building 2014
- Rutherford B. H. Yates, Sr., House 1998
- Sabine Street 2021
- Saint John United Church 1988
- Saint Paul A. M. E. Church 1987
- Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins 2010
- Sam Houston High School 2009
- Sam Houston Park 2009
- Samuel McCarley Homesite 1993
- Samuel Paschall 1957
- San Felipe Cottage 1967
- San Jacinto Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas 1986
- San Jacinto High School 1994
- Schlobohm Cemetery 2008
- Sessums & Virginia Cleveland House 1999
- The Sheridan Apartments 1984
- Sherman, Gen. Sidney, Home of 1936
- The Sikh Center of the Gulf Coast Area, Inc. 2022
- Sloan Memorial United Methodist Church 1981 Listed as missing
- Smith v. Allwright 2024
- Sons of the Republic of Texas 1986
- South Main Baptist Church 2003
- Southside Place Park 2022
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church 2010
- St. James United Methodist Church 2009
- St. John Missionary Baptist Church 2009
- St. John Missionary Baptist Church 2011
- St. Joseph Hospital 2006
- St. Joseph's Catholic Church 1989
- St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church 2013
- St. Mark's United Methodist Church 1990
- St. Nicholas Catholic Church 1987
- St. Paul's United Methodist Church 2006
- St. Peter Church 1967
- St. Thomas High School 1970
- Sweeney, Coombs & Fredericks Building 1974
- Teas Nursery Company 1993
- Temple Beth Israel 2008
- Temple Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M. 1983
- Texas Army Attacked in Four Divisions 1936
- Third Church of Christ, Scientist 1999
- Thomas H. Ball, Jr. 1994
- Thomas J. and Mary Donoghue House 1994
- Thomas William House 1991
- Thomas William House, Jr. 1998
- Tod-Milby Home Site 1967 Listed as missing
- Trinity East United Methodist Church 2009
- Trinity Episcopal Church 1986
- Trinity United Methodist Church 1984
- The Turkey Day Classic 2021
- Twentieth-Century Development of Freedman's Town 2005
- Underwood and Clara Nazro House 2012
- Vollmer Cemetery 2023
- W. L. Foley Building 1978
- W. T. Carter, Jr., House 2011
- W. T. Carter, Sr. House 2014
- Waddell's House Furnishing Company Warehouse 2018
- The Waldo Mansion 1978
- Washington Cemetery 2012
- Weingarten Residence 2024
- Will You Come to the Bower, Battle of San Jacinto 1936
- William C. Swearingen 1936
- William Daniel Durham 1936
- William Gammell 1936
- William Gammell 2009
- William Marsh Rice 2024
- William S. Stilwell 1936
- Willis Wood Cemetery 2022
- Within A Few Minutes, Battle of San Jacinto Site 1936
- Woodland Heights Community 2008
- Zion Lutheran Church 2017
- Zydeco Music in Frenchtown 2007
Baytown 35
- Ashbel Smith, M. D. 1984
- Bayland Guards 2009
- Bayland Orphans Home 2012
- Baytown Mexican School 2014
- Baytown Post Office 1988
- The Baytown Sun 2016
- Bell Prairie 1989
- The Brick Yards on Cedar Bayou 2021
- Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge No. 321, A. F. & A. M. 1970
- Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church 1984
- City of Baytown 2018
- City of Goose Creek 2024
- City of Pelly 2020
- Confederate Naval Works at Goose Creek 2007
- Gaillard-Mitchell Cemetery 2020
- George Washington Carver High School 2010
- Goose Creek Oil Field 2022
- Goose Creek School Community No. 9 2020
- Hall of Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge No. 321, A. F. & A. M. 1970
- Hannah Este Burnet 1936
- Hill of Rest Cemetery 2022
- Homesite (Point Pleasant) of William Scott 1990
- Humble Oil & Refining Company 1989
- Joseph William Ellender 1985
- K'Nesseth Israel Synagogue 1991
- Lee College 2011
- Lynch's Ferry 1936
- Lynchburg Cemetery
- The Lynchburg Volunteers 2017
- Memorial Baptist Church 2019
- Near Home Site of John Peter Sjolander 1968
- Robert E. Lee High School 2011
- Schools at Cedar Bayou 2023
- Wooster Common School No. 38 2012
- Wooster Community 2015
Tomball 18
- Abraham Roberts Homesite 1993
- Amos Cemetery 2016
- Bogs-Hufsmith Cemetery 2022
- Brill-Mueller House 1985
- Griffin Memorial House 1969
- Kleb Family House 2006
- Kohrville 2006
- Site of New Kentucky 1936
- Pillot Cemetery 2002
- Pillot Family 2004
- Rose Hill Methodist Church Building 1982
- Rose Hill United Methodist Church 1987
- Salem Lutheran Cemetery 2009
- Old Salem Lutheran Church Site 1978
- Salem Lutheran School 2004
- Spring Creek County 2014
- Texas Railroads, C.S.A. 1964
- Zion Lutheran Cemetery 2009
Humble 8
Pasadena 8
Spring 8
- Immanuel United Church of Christ of Spring 2016
- Seal McDougle Cemetery 2005
- Spring 2003
- Spring Cemetery 2001
- Spring Peaceful Rest Cemetery 2018
- Strack Cemetery 2004
- Theis (Theiss) Family 1983
- Wunsche Bros. Saloon and Hotel 1984
La Porte 7
Klein 6
- Catherine Wunderlich 2002
- The Klein Community 1977
- Kohrville Community 2002
- McDougle Cemetery 2001
- Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery 1990
- Wunderlich Farm 1996
Morgan's Point 6
Seabrook 6
Crosby 5
- Evergreen Cemetery 2008
- Harrison Barrett 1988
- Hollingsworth Family Cemetery 2003
- Humphrey and Sarah Merriman Jackson 1996
- Humphrey Jackson 1982
San Jacinto 5
Bellaire 4
Cypress 4
- Cypress 2012
- Perry Cemetery 2002
- St. John Lutheran Cemetery 2002
- St. John Lutheran Church 2003
Deer Park 4
Katy 3
Galena Park 2
Highlands 2
Lynchburg 2
- Lynchburg Town Ferry 2006
- Oakland 1936
West University Place 2
Barker (Houston) 1
- Barker Post Office 2001
Harrisburg 1
Hockley 1
- Roberts Cemetery 1997
Missouri City 1
- Old Dyer House, 1890 1966
Shoreacres 1
South Houston 1
Webster 1
Elsewhere in Harris County 1
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