First State Bank Building · 1964
First State Bank Building and office of C.R. Tips, founder of the City of Three Rivers, Texas, in 1914.
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Historical Markers in Three Rivers, Texas
Three Rivers is home to 10 official Texas Historical Commission markers — each one telling a piece of the city’s story. Browse the markers below, then find them on the map and discover more nearby with RoadHistorical.
Three Rivers · 1967
Founded March 1913 by Charles R. Tips. An investor chartered June 12, 1913, as Hamiltonburg--named for local family. Town lot sale began July 4, 1913. Townsite renamed by U.S. Postal Department May 1, 1914, to mark fork…
View on map ↗Site Planned for a Regional Trade Center: Simmons, Texas · 1969
Originally ranch land, bought in 1900 by Dr. C.F. Simmons (Wealthy St. Louis manufacturer of "Liver Regulator"), who also built this all-faiths church, 1908. After Simmons' son and heir died of snake bite, he sold…
View on map ↗Site of Three Rivers Glass Factory · 1973
Opened 1922 by company headed by Charles R. Tips (b. 1892), the founder of town of Three Rivers. Powered by local natural gas, plant used quartzose sand mined in area to make glass bottles for milk and other beverages…
View on map ↗Early Schools in Live Oak County · 1975
Until the 1870s, Live Oak County had private schools taught by clergymen and ranch employees in cabins, brush arbors, dugouts. County Judge G.W. Jones initiated (1876) community schools with tuition set at 7 1/2 cents a…
View on map ↗Felix Longoria · 2009
The funeral rites of Three Rivers native Felix Longoria advanced public debate on the status and rights of Mexican-Americans and military veterans. Private first class Longoria enlisted in the U.S. Army in Nov. 1944 and…
View on map ↗Loma Sandia Prehistoric Cemetery · 2012
Native American bands that inhabited the southern Texas and northern Mexican gulf coast before European colonization were hunter-gatherers. In this vicinity starting in 1973, Texas Highway Department (later Texas…
View on map ↗Cunningham Home · 2013
JAMES AND SARA CUNNINGHAM HOUSE LATE IN 1899 JAMES (JIM) MONROE CUNNINGHAM MOVED TO OAKVILLE FROM DEVINE AND BOUGHT THE LIVE OAK COUNTY LEADER. CUNNINGHAM SOON MARRIED SARA EMMA (O’NEAL) AND THEY BEGAN A FAMILY. WHEN…
View on map ↗Rialto Theater · 2016
This theater traces its roots to the developmental years of Three Rivers. From 1913 to the mid-1920s, movies were shown in tents. By the 1930s, Beeville Theater owners W.S. and J.S. Hall Jr. built a one-story movie…
View on map ↗Jessy Franklin Gray · 2018
(1895-1968) Educator, soldier, politician, and businessman, Jessy Franklin Gray was born in Wilson County on December 5, 1895. Passing the state teachers exam at 17, he taught in Oakville and became school…
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