Oldest Rock Building in City · 1967
Completed in 1903. 24-inch walls are made of sand and lime mix mortar. Originally used as grain and feed store. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1967
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Historical Markers in Rowena, Texas
Rowena has 5 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Runnels County. The marker list includes records dating to 1967. 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
- Downtown architecture, homes, and businesses
- Oil, industry, and railroad-era commerce
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Sons of Hermann Lodge No. 216 · 1971
Organized in 1904 as Rowena Chapter of the Sons of Hermann, worldwide benevolent fraternal organization. Named for German national hero and tribal leader Hermann the Defender (18 B.C. - 19 A.D.), who helped break Roman…
View on map ↗Sweet Home School · 1975
The need for education in this rural area was met in 1902, when a two-room school was started on Emil Helms' farm (1.5 miles northwest). The name "Sweet Home" was chosen by Henry Kriegel, one of the first trustees. In…
View on map ↗SPJST Lodge No. 49 · 2009
On May 2, 1904, eighteen charter members organized SPJST Lodge No. 49 in Runnels County. Founded just eight years after the SPJST's organization, Lodge No. 49 continued the Czech-Texan benevolent society's goals of…
View on map ↗Rowena · 2016
Rowena was originally laid out by Paul J. Baron in 1897. A Santa Fe Railroad Section House known as Rowena Station had been established in the area in 1888; however, the post office officially denied this name as it too…
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