Nueces County, Texas

Historical Markers in Bishop, Texas

Bishop has 6 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Nueces County. The marker list includes records dating to 1996. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history, ranching, farming, and frontier settlement. Use this page to preview the markers, then open RoadHistorical on your drive to see nearby stops on the map, listen to narration, and save the places you want to visit.

What you will find in Bishop

  • Churches, cemeteries, and community institutions
  • Railroad, trail, and transportation history
  • Ranching, farming, and frontier settlement
  • Military, battle, and Texas Revolution sites
  • Downtown architecture, homes, and businesses

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Bishop · 1996

The town of Bishop was established in 1910 by F.Z. Bishop on land he had purchased from the Driscoll Ranch. The townsite was staked on both sides of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico railroad line. F.Z. Bishop, who…

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First Baptist Church of Bishop · 1999

The Rev. J. B. Bruce of Kingsville and seven organizers met with forty applicants on January 29, 1911, in Moser Hall in downtown Bishop to establish a missionary Baptist church. The congregation called the Rev. B. F.…

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First United Methodist Church of Bishop · 1999

The Rev. Alton T. White, pastor at nearby Calallen, met with Methodists in the Bishop town hall to organize a Methodist Episcopal Church on November 12, 1911. Mrs. B. G. Bishop, Mrs. J. B. Butts, J. H. Herron, Mrs.…

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St. Paul Lutheran Church and School · 2010

ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN DECEMBER 1911, ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH WAS ORGANIZED BY A SMALL GROUP OF WENDISH LUTHERAN MEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF REV. E.J. MOEBUS IN THE RURAL COMMUNITY OF CONCORDIA, ABOUT…

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St. John Lutheran Church · 2014

ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MAY 1913, REV. F. J. LANGE HELPED THIRTEEN LOCAL FAMILIES ORGANIZE THE ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SERVED AS ITS PASTOR UNTIL 1915. THE CONGREGATION MET AT THE WEST WARD SCHOOL AND…

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Restland Memory Park · 2018

CR 6 1/4 mile East of Bishop, Texas

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