Milam County, Texas
Burlington has 3 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Milam County. The marker list includes records dating to 1990. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, ranching, farming, and frontier settlement, military, battle, and texas revolution sites. 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.
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Irish Catholic settlers first came to this area in 1875. The community, first called Irish Settlement, was served by visiting priests beginning in 1879. Eight families joined together in 1885 to build a church, which…
View on map ↗Members of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Burlington established this cemetery in 1917. Land for the cemetery once belonged to Michael and John Jones, founders of the town of Burlington. The church purchased…
View on map ↗St. Michael’s Cemetery is a link to the early Irish Catholic settler and parishioners of St. Michael’s Catholic Church of Burlington, formerly known as Waterford. In December 1876, brothers John and Michael Jones…
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