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William Cornelius Dalrymple TX11789
North Carolina native William Cornelius Dalrymple served in the Texas revolutionary forces and as a Texas Ranger during the 1830s. He married Elizabeth Wilbarger in Bastrop County, Texas, in 1840, and settled on the San Gabriel River in 1846. He served Williamson County as one of six commissioners to select the county seat, as tax assessor/collector, and as state representative in 1855 and 1857. In 1860 Texas Governor Sam Houston appointed him his Aide-De-Camp and Commander in Chief of the Texas Militia. In 1865 he served as state senator and delegate to Texas' constitutional convention.
The General's Hightway MD32
Across the road stood the three mile oak under which General George Washington passed on his way to Annapolis December 19, 1783 to resign his commission as Commander in Chief of the Continental Armies. According to tradition, General Smallwood, General Gates and distinguished Annapolis citizens met Washington at this spot, three miles from the state house, General Lafayette, on his return to America to visit with friends of Revolutionary days, passed here December 17, 1824. A stone bearing commemorative plaques was relocated in 1967 beside Route 450 about two tenths of a mile toward Annapolis from this point.
Callaway-Steptoe Cemetery K135
Callaway-Steptoe Cemetery Nearby are buried several prominent area settlers and their descendants. Col. William Callaway in 1755 one of the first two members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Bedford County donated the hundred acres of land on which the town of New London was built. His son Col. James Callaway served as county lieutenant commander in chief of the Bedford County militia during the Revolutionary War. James Callaway’s son-in-law James Steptoe was a close personal friend of Thomas Jefferson and served for 54 years as the first clerk of Bedford County. Steptoe’s home Federal Hill stands nearby.
Birthplace of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN TX10090
Typical early Fredericksburg home built 1866 by Carl Basse. Property of the Henke family since 1873. Heinrich Henke, early settler, Confederate freighter had butcher counter on front porch; meat processing was done in back yard; there the horses that pulled meat vending cart were stabled. Shop later built on foundation of stone walls surrounding lot. He and his wife Dorothea (nee Weirich) added the long dining room and kitchen with sloped roof to accommodate their twelve children. Many of their furnishings are preserved by Udo Henke, a descendant. In small room to rear of front bedroom, on Feb. 24, 1885, their daughter, Anna Henke Nimitz, gave birth to Chester William Nimitz, destined to command the greatest naval armada in history. A 1905 honor graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Nimitz was chief of staff to commander, Atlantic Submarine Fleet, W.W.I. Installed first Naval ROTC unit in U.S. Navy, 1926; selected Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet after attack on Pearl Harbor; appointed Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy, 1944. As representative of the U.S. he signed Japanese surrender documents of his flagship, USS Missouri, Sept. 2, 1945 in Tokoyo Bay. Admiral Nimitz died in San Francisco on Feb. 20, 1966.
Homesite of Thomas J. Rusk TX9349
(1803 - 1857) Soldier-statesman of the Republic of Texas. A hero of San Jacinto. Commander in chief of the army 1836. Chief justice of the Supreme Court 1839. President of the Constitutional Convention, 1845. United States Senator, 1846. He called Nacogdoches his home from 1835 to 1857.
Thomas J. Rusk TX9348
(1803 - 1857) Soldier-statesman of the Republic of Texas. A hero of San Jacinto. Commander in Chief of the army 1836. Chief justice of the Supreme Court 1839. President of the Constitutional Convention, 1845. United States Senator, 1846. He called Nacogdoches his home from 1835 to 1857.
Thomas Jefferson Rusk TX9209
(1803 - 1857) Born in South Carolina, Thomas Jefferson Rusk showed an early aptitude for the law, passing the bar at age twenty-one. He began to practice law in Georgia, where he married Mary F. Cleveland in 1827. Rusk was so taken with Nacogdoches that he sent for his family and became a citizen of Mexico in 1835. Quickly becoming involved in the independence movement, he organized a group of Nacogdoches volunteers and joined Stephen F. Austin's army. The provisional government named him inspector general of the army. He signed the Texas Declaration of Independence as a delegate from Nacogdoches and was appointed secretary of war. Rusk fought with Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto and was briefly commander in chief of the army of the Republic of Texas. After the war, Rusk was again appointed secretary of war and major general of the Texas Militia. Elected to the Republic of Texas Congress, he chaired the House Military Committee. In 1840, he retired from his position as chief justice of the State Supreme Court to return to a successful law practice in Nacogdoches, but he was called again to the militia in 1843 and was soon elected major general by the Congress. Returning home in June, Rusk focused his energies on the establishment of Nacogdoches University. Following his term as president of the convention of 1845 to annex Texas to the United States, Rusk was elected to a U.S. Senate seat in 1846. He and Senator Sam Houston established the southwestern boundary of Texas, and he promoted construction of a transcontinental railroad route through Texas. Mary Rusk died of tuberculosis in 1856, and an ill and despondent T.J. Rusk took his own life in 1857.
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Tree NV81
This tree was planted in soil from Civil War battle fields and dedicated to the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic by the National Commander in Chief June 10, 1913. It was marked and rededicated by Isaac Crist Camp Number 28, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Johana Shine Tent Number 82, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War--Reno, Nevada, October 18, 1969 |