view gallery SW10.6 km | 1917 - Mt. Horeb Baptist Church - Blanco, TX in Dated Buildings and Cornerstones Erected in 1917, Mt. Horeb Baptist Church is located on a small rural road about 7 miles NE of Blanco, TX (Blanco County). The congregation itself was established by freed slaves back in 1874, not long after the Civil War. posted by: Raven location: Texas date approved: 05/12/2021 last visited: 10/10/2020 |
view gallery SW10.6 km | Mt. Horeb Baptist Church - Blanco, TX in This Old Church Established in 1874, Mt. Horeb Baptist Church is located on a small rural road about 7 miles NE of Blanco, TX (Blanco County) and has served the surrounding rural community for close to 150 years. The church building itself was built in 1917. posted by: Raven location: Texas date approved: 05/11/2021 last visited: 10/10/2020 |
view gallery SW10.6 km | Mt. Horeb Baptist Church - Blanco County, TX in Country Churches Established in 1874, Mt. Horeb Baptist Church is located on a small rural road about 7 miles NE of Blanco, TX (Blanco County) and has served the surrounding rural community for close to 150 years. The church building itself was built in 1917. posted by: Raven location: Texas date approved: 05/12/2021 last visited: 10/10/2020 |
view gallery SW10.6 km | Mt. Horeb Baptist Church - Blanco, TX in Baptist Churches Established in 1874, Mt. Horeb Baptist Church is located on a small rural road about 7 miles NE of Blanco, TX (Blanco County) and has served the surrounding rural community for close to 150 years. The church building itself was built in 1917. posted by: Raven location: Texas date approved: 05/11/2021 last visited: 10/10/2020 |
view gallery SW10.6 km | Mt. Horeb Baptist Church in Texas Historical Markers A marker near the front entrance of the 1917 Mt. Horeb Baptist Church building, located on Peyton Colony Road, about 7 miles NE of Blanco (Blanco County). The original structure/church was established in 1874. posted by: Raven location: Texas date approved: 05/12/2021 last visited: 10/10/2020 |
view gallery SW10.6 km | Peyton Colony (Board House) in Texas Historical Markers A marker near a rural church about 7 miles NE of Blanco (Blanco County), denoting the harsh beginnings and early lives of the recently-freed slaves who came here after the Civil War to settle this part of the state. posted by: Raven location: Texas date approved: 05/12/2021 last visited: 10/10/2020 |
view gallery W11.4 km | Thomas C. and Eliza V. Felps in Texas Historical Markers A marker about Thomas Felps and family. posted by: ggmorton location: Texas date approved: 03/17/2009 last visited: 10/10/2020 |
view gallery W11.4 km | Miller Creek Cemetery - Blanco County, TX, USA in Worldwide Cemeteries Five acre cemetery with 685 graves. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 06/09/2015 last visited: 10/10/2020 |
view gallery SW11.4 km | MISSING Peyton Colony Lime Kiln in Texas Historical Markers The state historical marker for the Peyton Colony Lime Kiln, missing since 2006 posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Texas date approved: 04/13/2023 last visited: 04/13/2023 |
view gallery E11.6 km | Dripping Springs Community Library in Libraries A nice community library with Internet access and free WiFi! posted by: Deafdillos location: Texas date approved: 11/28/2006 last visited: 03/15/2009 |
view gallery E12.1 km | The Marshall-Chapman Home in Texas Historical Markers Texas Historical Marker on the Marshall-Chapman Home, giving some background on its previous ownership and brief service as a post office. Today, it is the Homestead at the Dripping Springs bed and breakfast, 500 Mercer St, Dripping Springs, TX. posted by: Deafdillos location: Texas date approved: 11/27/2006 last visited: 10/18/2013 |
view gallery E12.2 km | Spaw Barbershop/Post Office - Dripping Springs Downtown Historic District - Dripping Springs, TX in NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings This stone building, with its distinctive jagged roofline, was built in 1937 by Johnny Spaw. The front-gabled building is clad in multicolored random ashlar stones, some of which are laid in a jagged tooth-like pattern along the top of the parapet. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/08/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | F.W. Miller’s Texaco Station - Dripping Springs, TX in Vintage Gas Stations This small 1940 gas station building on Mercer Street has random ashlar limestone walls. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/29/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | F.W. Miller’s Texaco Station - Dripping Springs Downtown Historic District - Dripping Springs, TX in NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings This small 1940 gas station building on Mercer Street has random ashlar limestone walls. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/08/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | F. W. Miller’s Rock Café - Dripping Springs Downtown Historic District - Dripping Springs, TX in NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings This one-story limestone café building at 304 Mercer Street was built as a companion to the Texaco station next door. Because of this, its style and composition is almost identical. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/08/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | 1940 - F. W. Miller’s Rock Café - Dripping Springs, TX in Dated Buildings and Cornerstones This one-story limestone café building at 304 Mercer Street was built as a companion to the Texaco station next door. Because of this, its style and composition is almost identical. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/08/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | A. L. Davis Store - Dripping Springs Downtown Historic District - Dripping Springs, TX in NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings Built in 1891 by A.L. Davis, one of the wealthiest men in Dripping Springs, this store marked the maturation of Dripping Springs from a settlement consisting of a few frame storefronts to a town with a more substantial mercantile district. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/08/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | J. L. Patterson Building - Dripping Springs Downtown Historic District - Dripping Springs, TX in NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings Originally a one-and-a-half story building, the Patterson Building was rebuilt as a one-story building with parapet after a 1938 fire. The building is similar in appearance to its 1906 configuration. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/08/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | Stephenson High School - Dripping Springs Downtown Historic District - Dripping Springs, TX in NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings Stephenson High School is a one-story limestone building with a rectangular footprint. It is located behind Dripping Springs Academy off of Old Fitzhugh Road, and is accessed by a wide curving driveway. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/10/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | Stephenson High School - Dripping Springs, TX in Former Schools The building operated as a high school only eleven years when a new school building was completed in 1949. It is currently home to American Legion Post 290 and VFW Post 2933. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/10/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.2 km | Stephenson High School - Dripping Springs, TX in WPA Projects By the 1930s, Dripping Springs Academy was too small to accommodate students in the town and surrounding area. Under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), local laborers built a new building to be opened for the September 1939 school term. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/10/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.4 km | Haydon Central Garage - Dripping Springs Downtown Historic District - Dripping Springs, TX in NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings This garage building is located at the southeast corner of Mercer and College Streets. It is a front-gabled stone building with a pyramidal-roofed front porte cochere. The building is clad in a variety of rock types including limestone, crystallized rock, and petrified wood. The result is colorful and highly textured. The porte cochere is supported by three battered stone piers and topped with a jagged decorative stone parapet. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/08/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.4 km | Haydon Central Garage - Dripping Springs, TX in Vintage Gas Stations Called the Central Garage, the building built in 1937 was a Magnolia (Mobil) Gas station and garage. Leroy Roberts ran the service station and his wife ran a café in the east end of the station. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/29/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.4 km | Dripping Springs Academy - Dripping Springs, TX in Former Schools Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/09/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery E12.4 km | 1881 - Dripping Springs Academy - Dripping Springs, TX in Dated Buildings and Cornerstones Dripping Springs Academy is a large two-story limestone building near Old Fitzhugh Road north of Mercer Street. Although accessed by a driveway off Old Fitzhugh, the building’s front elevation faces south, towards Mercer. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 04/08/2018 last visited: never |
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