Grimes County, Texas
Plantersville has 5 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Grimes County. The marker list includes records dating to 1967. Common marker themes include churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, railroad, trail, and transportation history, military, battle, and texas revolution sites. 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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Organized May, 1861, with Rev. N. T. Byars as pastor. Worship was in a schoolhouse until erection of this building, which was dedicated Aug. 4, 1872. Cost $2,701.73, paid in gold. Church bell came by oxcart from San…
View on map ↗Organized May 19, 1861, by elders N. T. Byars and George W. Baines. The Rev. Mr. Baines was the great-grandfather of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
View on map ↗The first recorded visit of a Catholic priest to Plantersville occurred in the summer of 1860. Infrequent worship services subsequently were held at the home of James Kelly Markey until the first church building was…
View on map ↗Settlers from the southern United States began arriving in this area as early as the 1830s. A post office opened in 1856 as Plantersville, a name suggested by Sarah Greene to honor local planters. Members of her family…
View on map ↗In the original plat of Plantersville, a four-acre lot was set aside for a school, later built by the Plantersville Masonic Lodge as a shared space. Across the street on another corner lot was the female school where…
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