Fort Bend County, Texas
Fulshear has 8 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Fort Bend County. The marker list includes records dating to 1971. Common marker themes include courthouse and civic history, churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history. 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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On July 16, 1824, land grant of Mexico to Churchill Fulshear, one of the "Old 300" settlers of Stephen F. Austin, father of Texas. Churchill Fulshear, Jr., veteran of Texas War for Independence, built 4-story brick…
View on map ↗More than six acres here of the Mexican land grant acquired in 1824 by "Old 300" colonist Churchill Fulshear, Jr., were donated to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, by Churchill Fulshear, Jr., in 1851. Originally…
View on map ↗In 1910, I. G. Mayes conveyed two acres of land from the Mason Briscoe estate to the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church at this site. Around 1930, community residents and church members began using the land behind…
View on map ↗Planters preferring the prairie to the hazardous Brazos River bottoms settled this village in the 1840s. Named for store owners A. R. and Amanda (Wade) Pitts, it was a major commercial center by 1860. During the Civil…
View on map ↗ORAL TRADITION SAYS THAT THIS CEMETERY BEGAN AS A SLAVE CEMETERY ON THE PLANTATION OF TENNESSEE NATIVE CHURCHILL FULSHEAR. MANY EARLY BURIALS ARE UNMARKED, AND THE OLDEST HEADSTONE IS THAT OF REBECCA SCOTT IN 1915. IN…
View on map ↗Albert H. Herzstein was born March 5, 1907, into a Jewish immigrant family in Trinidad, Colorado. The family lived in Clayton, New Mexico, and moved to Denver, Colorado, before Albert moved to Houston in 1925 and began…
View on map ↗In 1821, Stephen F. Austin was granted a permit from the Mexican government to act as empresario for 300 families to settle in Texas. That summer, he and the settlers, known as the Old Three Hundred, began crossing into…
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