Waller County, Texas

Historical Markers in Waller, Texas

Waller has 6 official Texas Historical Commission markers in Waller 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.

What you will find in Waller

  • Churches, cemeteries, and community institutions
  • Railroad, trail, and transportation history
  • Ranching, farming, and frontier settlement
  • Military, battle, and Texas Revolution sites
  • Downtown architecture, homes, and businesses

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Reid's Prairie Baptist Church · 1965

Organized Aug 24, 1890 with 17 members. Sanctuary built, 1895 on Navasota Stage Road.

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Macedonia Methodist Church · 1970

Organized in 1892 by the Rev. W. C. Bracewell, circuit rider. Early services were held in McPherson School. In 1893 first church was built, by men of community. Bill Page donated land. The present structure was erected…

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Heinrich Konrad Karl Leverkuhn · 1979

(July 22, 1842 -- November 11, 1915) German-born Heinrich Leverkuhn cane to Texas in 1857 and was a foragemaster for the Confederate army during the Civil War. He ran a store in Hockley after the war. In 1878 he became…

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Waller · 1994

Extension of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad here about 1857 provided the means for a growing number of settlers in this area to market their farm and ranch products. The town was platted by K.H. Faulkner in 1884…

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First United Methodist Church of Waller · 2000

The Waller Methodist Episcopal Church, South, traces its history to 1888, the year it was first mentioned in regional Methodist conference records. Early members included Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Brown, Lawton M. and Sallie…

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South Texas Baptist College

An ambitious institution chartered by Baptists who formed South Texas Educational Conference about 1895 and in 1898 secured campus site from a local landowner, C.C. Waller. Trustees serving when college opened in fall…

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