Tarrant County, Texas

Historical Markers in Keller, Texas

Keller has 7 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Tarrant County. The marker list includes records dating to 1980. 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.

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  • 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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Keller · 1980

After Texas & Pacific Railroad came through this area, H.W. Wood, a druggist, set aside 40 acres on July 19, 1881, for this townsite. He named the new village "Athol". Within a year, the name became "Keller", honoring…

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Bourland Cemetery · 1981

Aurelius Delphus Bourland (1840-1904), a North Carolina native and a veteran of the Civil War, bought land here in 1873. A farmer and Primitive Baptist preacher, he first used this site as a family cemetery. The…

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Mount Gilead Baptist Church · 1981

The earliest religious meetings here began in the late 1840s as part of Lonesome Dove Baptist Church. The Mt. Gilead Congregation was chartered in 1850 under the direction of the Rev. John Allen Freeman (1821-1919) with…

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Mount Gilead Cemetery · 1981

This burial ground originally served a pioneer settlement of related families who migrated to the area from Missouri in 1847 as members of the Peters Colony. They were headed by a widow, Permelia Allen (d. 1866), who is…

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First Baptist Church of Keller · 1983

Founded in 1882 as the Keller Baptist Church, this church was started by twenty former members of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church soon after rail lines reached the area. Early meetings were held in a schoolhouse and then in…

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Pioneer Stone Burial Cairns (at Mount Gilead Cemetery) · 1983

Scattered throughout many of the pioneer cemeteries in Texas are unusual stone structurers, or burial cairns, built by the early settlers to memorialize their dead. Primarily surface structures of native stone, the…

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Keller Methodist Church · 1997

From 1886, the Christian denominations of Keller and other areas shared their facilities. Pastor W. K. Simpson served the area when the Keller Methodist Church was organized in 1897. In 1913 the church erected its own…

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