Bandera County, Texas
Medina has 5 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Bandera County. The marker list includes records dating to 1965. 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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Built for Fabian L. Hicks, a county official and Texas Ranger who styled it after his family home in North Carolina. Building is stone and cypress wood off ranch. Hardware came by ox wagon from San Antonio. This…
View on map ↗On land owned by John James, surveyor of Bandera and Castroville townsites, and by Confederate general John Bell Hood. Hostile Indians prevented construction until 1878, two years prior to founding of Medina. Owned by…
View on map ↗Special Texas Ranger, Deputy Sheriff, Justice of Peace, Bandera County. World War II shipboard security officer for chemical company. Also Uvalde alderman, county clerk, chief of police. Member Internationl Association…
View on map ↗These log cribs were constructed by the family of John Travis Walker and his wife, Mariah (Yoast), soon after they settled on the surrounding 400 acres in 1897. Their function was to store feed for livestock, mostly…
View on map ↗In a desire to help the town grow, media businessman Brown H. Stokes (1897-1840) established Stokes Tourist Courts at his 11-acre riverfront property and family homestead. By 1939, the courts comprised 10 cottages,…
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