Cypress has 4 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Harris County. The marker list includes records dating to 2002. 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.
Perry Cemetery The first marked burial at the Perry Cemetery is that of Charles B. Grant (d. 1878), son of physician James W. Grant who once owned land in the southern part of the T.K. Wheeler Survey. Dr. Grant and his…
St. John Lutheran Cemetery Settlers from Posen and Pomerania, Germany came to this area in 1848. They formed St. John Lutheran Church in 1853. A smallpox epidemic in 1873 claimed the lives of 11 members. They and other…
Lutheran settlers from Germany moved to this area in 1848. They met in family homes for worship and in 1853 constructed their first church building, which also served as a school. In the 1860s, following the Civil War,…
CYPRESS ATTAKAPAS AND AKOKISA INDIANS BEGAN TO DISAPPEAR FROM HARRIS COUNTY IN THE MID-1800s WITH THE ARRIVAL OF ANGLO SETTLERS. THE FIRST DOCUMENTED SETTLERS IN THE CYPRESS AREA WERE THE BURNETT AND SIMMONS FAMILIES,…