Walker County Historical Markers
Walker County has 111 Texas historical markers across 7 towns and communities. 16 of them mark Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. The earliest went up in 1936.
- Markers
- 111
- Mapped
- 106
- Landmarks
- 16
2 listed by the THC as missing
Common subjects here: Churches and Congregations, Cemeteries, Historic Homes, Military History, Towns and Communities, Schools and Education
Huntsville 71
- "Old" Main Building 1980
- "The Drag": Huntsville's African American Business District 2018
- Site of Andrew Female College 1936
- Site of Andrew Female College 1999
- Angier Farm 2016
- Austin Hall 1936
- Baker, James Addison 2003
- Ball, The Rev. Thomas H. 1984
- Bath Cemetery 2002
- Bishop Ward Normal and Collegiate Institute 2018
- Boettcher House 1991
- Site of Boettcher's Mill 2006
- Burials of Enslaved People in McAdams Cemetery 2018
- Camp Huntsville, World War II Prisoner of War Camp 2006
- Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery 2013
- Site of Cumberland Presbyterian Church 2001
- Eastham-Thomason House 1989
- Ebenezer Cemetery 2007
- Emancipation Park
- Farris Chapel Methodist Church 1965 Listed as missing
- First Baptist Church of Huntsville 1977
- First Christian Church of Huntsville 1984
- First Missionary Baptist Church 2011
- First Presbyterian Church of Huntsville 1990
- First United Methodist Church of Huntsville
- The Five Courthouses of Walker County 1999
- Forrest Lodge No. 19, A.F. & A.M. 1978
- Founding of Huntsville and of Historic Indian Post Listed as missing
- George Washington Grant and Grant's Colony 2014
- Old Gibbs Store 1964
- Gibbs-Powell House 1989
- Harmony Cemetery 2000
- Harmony Grove Missionary Baptist Church 2010
- Henderson Yoakum 1976
- Henderson Yoakum Homesite 2016
- Henry Opera House 1972
- Hillary Mercer Crabb
- Site of the Home of Henderson Yoakum 1936
- Houston, Margaret Moffette Lea 2008
- Huntsville "Walls" Unit 2001
- Huntsville Branch Railway, "Tilley's Tap" 2014
- Huntsville Item 2000
- Huntsville Springs 1993
- The Huntsville Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1867 2016
- Jesse Parker
- John William Thomason Jr. 2017
- Josey Boy Scout Lodge 2010
- Joshua Houston 2000
- Oakwood Cemetery 1976
- Oakwood Cemetery 2003
- Original Site of The Steamboat House 2000
- Peabody Library Building 1990
- Pine Prairie Free Will Baptist Church and Cemetery 2019
- Pleasant Williams Kittrell 1997
- Powell Sanctuary 2015
- Pritchett House 2001
- Rogersville 2011
- Sallie E. Gibbs 2005
- Sam Houston 1967
- Sam Houston Industrial and Training School 2005
- Samuel Calhoun Cemetery 1969
- The Seven Hills of Huntsville 2017
- Southend Cemetery 2018
- St. James United Methodist Church of Huntsville 1981
- State Penitentiary C.S.A. 1963
- Union Hill Church 2003
- Walker County
- Walker County 1999
- Walker County 1936
- Woodland, Home of Sam Houston 1962
- Wynne House 2007
New Waverly 7
- Boswell Baptist Church 1981
- East Sandy Community 2005
- Elijah Collard 1976
- James and Rhoda Creel Beall Winters 1968
- St. Joseph's Catholic Church 1975
- Waverly Cemetery 1978
- Western Grove Baptist Church 2013
Riverside 4
Dodge 2
- Dodge 1972
- Palmer Family Cemetery 2023
Bedias 1
- Buck Foster Cemetery 2013
Crabbs Prairie 1
Hunstville 1
- William Luther Dean 2018
Elsewhere in Walker County 24
- Akin Hill
- Anthony Martin Branch
- Austin College Building 1964
- Besser, General John Slater 1990
- Bethea Creek
- Black Jack Methodist Church and Cemetery 1988
- Christopher C. Edinburg 1936
- Clapp Cemetery 1994
- Cook Springs Baptist Church 1986
- Cunningham, Minnie Fisher 1990
- Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Hezekiah Faris
- Jardine-Brown House 1968
- Jasper Missionary Baptist Church 2015
- John Frelan Winters 1936
- Martha's Chapel 1990
- McAdams Cemetery 1984
- McAdams Homeplace
- Newport 1936
- Steamboat House 1964
- Thomas Cemetery
- Site of Thomas Plantation and Steamboat Landing
- Town of Riverside
- Walker County
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