King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road · 1918
King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road. Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas A. D. 1918
View on map ↗Lee County, Texas
Historical Markers in Giddings, Texas
Giddings is home to 27 official Texas Historical Commission markers — each one telling a piece of the city’s story. Browse the markers below, then find them on the map and discover more nearby with RoadHistorical.
King's Highway - Camino Real - Old San Antonio Road · 1918
Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas A. D. 1918
View on map ↗Lee County · 1936
Located on Old San Antonio Road, on land surveyed in 1821 as part of the original colony of Moses and Stephen F. Austin. In 1854 became site of major settlement by Wend from northern Europe, led by Pastor Johann Kilian.…
View on map ↗County Named for Beloved Confederate General Robert E. Lee · 1965
Led army of Northern Virginia which included famed Hood's Texas Brigade. He said about them "I never ordered that brigade to hold a position that they did not hold it." "The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans." In…
View on map ↗Fletcher Home · 1966
Built by August W. Schubert, 1879. Bought 1894 by Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, to house a ministerial college, which closed prior to 1900. Sold to Baylis J. Fletcher, Lee County treasurer and legislator. Presently…
View on map ↗First Presbyterian Church · 1967
Founded 1876, with thirteen charter members, under the direction of Rev. H. B. Burr and Rev. R. H. Byers. Edifice designed and built in 1886 by the ruling elder, Frank Morris. Annex constructed in 1952. Oldest church…
View on map ↗Lee County Courthouse · 1968
Designed by J. R. Gordon along lines similar to New York State Capitol and several buildings at Harvard University. Classified as Richardsonian Romanesque style, after the famous Louisiana-born architect Henry H.…
View on map ↗First National Bank · 1969
Lee County's oldest banking institution. An agent for progress in this area. Founded 1891 at merger of P. M. Cuney & Co., private bank, with First National Bank of Elgin (founded in 1890 by 30 merchants and ranchers).…
View on map ↗Henry Prentice Redfield · 1970
Texas Soldier Henry Prentice Redfield (May 27, 1819 - February 27, 1900) Born Derry, N.H.; came to Texas, 1831. Joined army, 1835. Fought at Battle of Gonzales, 1835; Siege of Bexar, 1835; San Jacinto, 1836 (all in…
View on map ↗Robert Devlin McClellan _ Sarah Lewis Rainey McClellan · 1970
Robert Devlin McClellan (January 19, 1837 - December 30, 1888) Sarah Lewis Rainey McClellan (deceased February 2, 1914) First professional educators in Giddings, opening a private school in 1874. In 1883, start of…
View on map ↗City of Giddings · 1971
County seat of Lee County. Named for Jabez D. Giddings (1814-78), of Washington County, one of four brothers from Pennsylvania who were Texas transportation pioneers and business leaders. The town was established as a…
View on map ↗First United Methodist Church of Giddings · 1971
Founded 1871 with 24 charter members; first congregation to be organized in community, before platting of town in 1872. The Rev. William C. Lewis was first pastor. Early trustees included W. H. Cherry, Thomas Cox, R. D.…
View on map ↗Helen Knox · 1971
(1885-1959) Historian-financier. One of the few women given athletic letters (in tennis) at the University of Texas. Born in Giddings, daughter of bank president W.A. Knox, she became (1927) manager of women's accounts,…
View on map ↗First Baptist Church of Giddings · 1972
Founded 1872. In 1873 had 16 members, with J. Budd as pastor. First building (1881) was west of present site. Pastors serving 10 to 15 years in church's century of growth to 300 members: Q. T. Simpson, W. W. Burr, Peter…
View on map ↗Holy Cross Cemetery · 1973
At former site of Holy Cross Church, founded here in Rabb's Creek area in 1873. Opened at the death of Pastor Johann Zapf (1873), the cemetery has 53 graves. Parish sold church site, retained cemetery; built a new…
View on map ↗William Preston (Bill) Longley · 1976
(October 6, 1851 - October 11, 1878) Texas outlaw Bill Longley was from a respectable family, but his hot temper, his fondness for liquor, and unsettled conditions during Reconstruction led him to become one of the most…
View on map ↗St. Paul Baptist Church · 1977
This congregation was organized in 1870 by ex-slaves Bob Bennett, James Collier, Andrew Jackson, Elijah Lewis, Alfred Williams, Steve Williams, Henry Wilson, and their families. They worshiped first in a residence…
View on map ↗Milton Garrett York, Sr. · 1985
Was born in East Texas (San Augustine County) on Sept. 5, 1843. After the death of his parents, Aaron and Ruth (lucas) York, he went to live with an uncle in Arkansas. Milton returned to Texas about 1860 and briefly…
View on map ↗Shorter Chapel, A. M. E. Church · 1985
Organized in 1875, this was one of the first black churches in Giddings. The congregation was named for the Rev. James A. Shorter (1817-1887), ninth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The Rev. Anthony…
View on map ↗Bethel Union Baptist Church · 1986
The La Grange Baptist District Association of Texas was organized in 1874. That same year, land was purchased in Giddings for a church that had recently been organized in a private home. A church building was soon…
View on map ↗J. D. Giddings Lodge No. 280, A. F. & A. M. · 1990
Chartered by the Grand Lodge of Texas in 1865, this Masonic Lodge had its beginnings in the community of Evergreen (about 5 mi. N). Relocated to the new town of Giddings in 1872 after the railroad bypassed Evergreen,…
View on map ↗Site of Bethany Lutheran Church and School · 1997
Established as a German-English mission church in 1895 by the Rev. G. W. Buschacher, Bethany Lutheran Church called the Rev. H. P. Grief as first pastor. Teacher Ernest Lubner managed the Bethany School. In 1902 the…
View on map ↗Good Hope Cemetery · 2003
German and Wendish settlers founded Good Hope community in the 1880s and established a school by 1887. The earliest marked grave in the community cemetery, dated 1889, is for Dora Vick. George Kruse, also buried here,…
View on map ↗Vick Cemetery · 2010
N. on Hwy 77 to FM 1624, cemetery is .75 mi. past intersection w/ Hwy 21
View on map ↗Globe Hill Community and Baptist Church · 2012
George Coleman Truitt, founder of this predominantly African American community, bought land in the area and built at least nine box houses for his tenant farmers. Truitt also ran the community’s only business, a…
View on map ↗Washington Cemetery · 2015
The land for Washington Cemetery and Bethany Colored Church was donated to former slave Charlie Washington by Henry Wenke Sr. after the Civil War. In addition to a Methodist Church and a Baptist Church, the cemetery and…
View on map ↗Edward R. Sinks House · 2017
Built around 1890, this American four-square house with offset entry was the home of Edward “Ed” R. Sinks (1854-1936), son of George Washington Sinks (1812-1892) and Julia Lee Sinks (1817-1904). George and Julia, both…
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