Waller County, Texas

Historical Markers in Prairie View, Texas

Prairie View has 5 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Waller County. The marker list includes records dating to 1962. Common marker themes include courthouse and civic history, churches, cemeteries, and community institutions, 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.

What you will find in Prairie View

  • Courthouse and civic history
  • Churches, cemeteries, and community institutions
  • Military, battle, and Texas Revolution sites
  • Downtown architecture, homes, and businesses

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Wyatt Chapel Community Cemetery · 1991

This cemetery is located on land that was originally part of Jared E. Kirby's Alta Vista Plantation. According to oral tradition, the Kirby family set aside this land as a burial site for their slaves, as well as slaves…

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Jacob E. Freeman · 2011

In response to the political, social and economic turmoil in Texas and the South after the Civil War, the federal government enacted the Reconstruction Act on March 2, 1867. Many local and state officials were removed…

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Prairie View A&M University

Authorized by the Texas legislature in 1876, the "Agricultural and Mechanical College for Colored Youth" was Texas' second state-supported institution of higher learning. As a land grant college, it occupied a 1434-acre…

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