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HISTORICAL MARKERS EAST OF THE SAN JACINTO FROM LYNCHBURG TO CEDAR BAYOU

This list will expand as more markers are approved by either the
Harris County Historical Commission or the Texas State Historical Commission.


Harris County Historical Commission, http://www.historicalcommission.hctx.net/.  Click on Marker Inventory.

Texas Historical Commission, http://www.thc.state.tx.us/  Click on Historical Atlas.

*Bayland Guards, Bayland Park, 2641 SH146 Business (read marker application and original Muster Roll)

*Bayland Orphans Home, Bayland Park, 2641 SH146 Business (read marker application)

  Baytown Mexican School, Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary, 305 Tri City Beach Road

  Baytown Post Office [the old Goose Creek Post Office], 220 West Defee

 *City of Baytown, located at Town Square on Texas Avenue (read marker application)

*The Baytown Sun, 1301 Memorial Drive (read marker application)

  Bell Prairie (homesite of Henry F. Gillette), 2000-1/2 Tri-Cities Beach Road (read marker application)

  Hannah Este Burnet gravesite, 414 South Burnet in Lakewood

  George Washington Carver High School, 800 Carver Street

  Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge No. 321 A.F., 2850 Ferry Road

  Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church, 2714 Ferry Road

  Cedarcrest Cemetery, 3010 Ferry Road

*Confederate Naval Works, Bayland Park, 2641 SH146 Business (read marker application)

  Joseph William Ellender, 2850 Ferry Road

  Site of Gen. Sam Houston’s Home, 5712 Cedar Point Road

  Humble Oil & Refining Company, Decker Drive and Rollingbook Drive

  K'nesseth Israel Synagogue, 100 West Sterling Avenue

  Lee College, 200 Lee Drive

*Robert E. Lee High School, 1809 Market Street (read marker application)

  Lynchburg Cemetery, 861 Crosby-Lynchburg Road

*The Lynchburg Volunteers, 5096 Bayway Drive (read marker application)

  William Scott Homesite, 5096 Bayway Drive

  John Peter Sjolander Homesite, 6330 Sjolander Road at Landmark Drive

  Ashbel Smith, M.D., relocated to 1530 Evergreen Road 

  Statue of Ashbel Smith, M.D., Republic of Texas Plaza, 5117 North Main Street

  Texas Sesquicentenial 1836-1986, Republic of Texas Plaza, 5117 North Main Street

*Wooster Common School No. 38, 5117 North Main Street (read marker application)

*Wooster Community Marker, Wooster Street and Bayway Drive (read marker application)

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*Sponsored or mentored by the Baytown Historical Preservaton Association.


For additional information, check out Sterling Municipal Library in Baytown at www.baytown.org/city-hall/departments/library.  Click on the Research tab, then on Baytown History and finally on Documents.

Mailing address:  P. O. Box 1244, Baytown, TX  77522-1244              
Republic of Texas Plaza            5117 North Main Baytown, TX            Ph: 281.421.2099            Email: info@baytownhistory.org
 
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