Texas County Courthouses:
112 Hopkins County, Sulphur Springs, Texas
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STATE HIGHWAY NO. 112
Adm. Auth., dated 09/14/1992; DesLtr 03-1992, dated 09/14/1992
From US 183 northwest of Eastland, southeastward via Eastland to IH 20, a distance of approximately 10.8 miles. (Eastland County)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0112.htm

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White House Bastrop, Texas

John W. and Martha L. White had this late 19th-century Victorian home constructed in 1890 and lived here until 1894. Several families owned the house until 1901 when Nash Turner purchased it for his mother, Kate. Turner, an internationally recognized race horse trainer, lived here with his mother in 1920-21. The home, which features fine Eastlake gingerbread trim, remained in the Turner family until 1937.

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Galveston, Texas
Samuel May Williams House

Samuel May Williams House.The two-story white frame Williams House is believed to be the second oldest home standing on Galveston Island. Construction on it began in the fall of 1839. The house was designed to face east in the center of two ten-acre garden plots about two miles from the center of town, at 3601 Avenue P. Samuel May Williams's partner, Thomas F. McKinney, supervised the construction while Williams served in the Fourth Congress in Austin, and at the same time built an identical house for himself nearby.

Samuel May Williams served as Stephen F. Austin's secretary, became the first banker in Texas, and founded the Texas Navy. The home he built on Galveston in 1838 is the oldest standing residence on the island. Known as "the most hated man in Texas," Williams had a habit of pinching pennies and ruthlessly foreclosing on mortgages. Few are surprised he apparently hung around to terrorize the living. Fires have been lit in fireplaces when no one was in or near the home, there's a "cold spot" outside the children's rooms on the second floor, and a misty figure appears in the windows of the cupola atop the roof.

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STATE HIGHWAY NO. 111
Adm. Auth., dated 10/04/1968; Adm. Cir. 093-1968, dated 11/01/1968
From Gonzales follow US 183 to Hochheim, thence via Yoakum and Edna to Midfield. (Gonzales, DeWitt, Lavaca, Jackson, and Matagorda Counties)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0111.htm

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Texas County Courthouses:
111 Hood County, Granbury, Texas
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Texas County Courthouses:
110 Hockley County, Levelland, Texas

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Bayside,Texas

John Howland Wood (1816-1904) was born in Dutchess County, New York. Trained in the mercantile trade and apprenticed to a painter, Wood enlisted in the New York Battalion to aid the Texas revolution. He arrived in Texas in 1836 in time to participate in the Battle of San Jacinto and several other major events at the close of the war. Wood settled at Victoria as quartermaster of the Texas Army, marrying Nancy Anna Clark in 1842. They became civic and political leaders and the parents of twelve children.

The Woods moved to St. Mary's, later called Bayside, where they opened a mercantile business and began to acquire vast land holdings throughout the state while John established himself as a cattleman. In 1849 they purchased this property, establishing a ranch which Nancy Wood dubbed "Bonnie View." Lightning damage to the original house led to the construction of this magnificent edifice on its foundations in 1875.

Erected by contractors Viggo Kohler and Hugo Heldenfels, the structure combines a typical Greek revival plan with exuberant high Victorian Italianate detailing. The two-tiered, full-height projecting portico supported by Italianate columns establishes the house's imposing character. The house also features pedimented window surrounds, bracketed eaves and a "widow's walk" or "captain's walk," reflecting the architecture of John Wood's native New York.

The house's presence on the rural Texas Coast, where few mansions were built, surely impressed visitors and area residents alike during the post-Civil War era. An outstanding example of the Italianate style, it remains one of the area's most substantial and least-altered country mansions of the period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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STATE HIGHWAY NO. 110
Minute Order 019252, dated 03/26/1942
From Rusk, via Summerfield, Troup, Tyler, and Van to Grand Saline.
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0110.htm

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Texas County Courthouses:
109 Hill County, Hillsboro, Texas
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SH 109 was canceled in 1948 and included with SH 158.

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STATE HIGHWAY LOOP NO. 109
Minute Order 090905, dated 10/25/1990; Adm. Ltr. 001-1991, dated 01/14/1991
In Elgin from SH 95 southeastward and southwestward to US 290, a distance of approximately 2.3 miles. (Bastrop County)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SL/SL0109.htm

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Winters-Wimberley House
Wimberley, Texas

The village's oldest documented stone house, the Winters-Wimberley House provided a home for both Winters and future millers. Winters chose a home site on a limestone promontory that rose high above the creek within view of the mill below. It is a simple, though substantial, rectangular limestone dwelling with a near-symmetrical, 3-bay primary facade. Winters probably built several small auxiliary structures near the house soon after its construction. As business increased, a wagon path soon developed between the trading post and the mill. Passing between the house and the creek below, the path eventually became part of the county road system. Ranch Road 12.

The original two-room section of the house is built of random, 18 thick ashlar limestone blocks cemented with lime-based mortar. Stone footings provide a base for the masonry walls while the interior floor and walls are supported by pier and beam foundation.

Descendants of Pleasant Wimberley lived here until 1997 when the stone house, its later additions and surrounding five acres were purchased for community use.

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Huntsville, Texas
Woodland House

Built by Sam Houston
The Woodlands, is located in Huntsville, on the campus of Sam Houston State University. When Houston built the house it was outside of town, but growth during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has surrounded the site. The site comprises the original house, the original law office, and a reconstructed kitchen building. The present semirural setting is maintained by the university.

Landscaping consists of a white picket fence around the house, kitchen, and office, a pond dating from Houston's occupation, a driveway, a museum, maintenance buildings, and a historic building moved onto the site. Oak, pecan, and pine trees are present.

0opppppArcheological investigations were performed on the law-office area in 1979 by James E. Corbin of Stephen F. Austin State University; more extensive excavations were conducted in the areas of the house, kitchen, and post-Houston additions by John W. Clark, Jr., of Prewitt and Associates. Additional work was done at the law office and house in 1980 by Jody C. Pevey of Prewitt and Associates. The excavations were conducted to provide information on the architecture of the site for restoration efforts sponsored by Sam Houston State.

Houston had his house, kitchen, and law office constructed in 1847 and occupied them until 1853. He sold them in 1858 to J. Carroll Smith, and in 1878 they were sold to S. Smedes, who built additions and converted the house into a boarding house for female students.

The law office was removed in 1901, the house and kitchen in 1905. There was some fire damage in 1911, when the house was returned to the site. From 1914 through 1978 a variety of modifications took place, including the building of chimneys, replacement of some woodwork, rebuilding the porch, and adding air-conditioning.

Beginning in 1911 the property came under the control of Sam Houston State University. Many artifacts were recovered, a large number attributable to the Smedes. Artifacts associated with Houston's occupation came principally from the kitchen and rear porch area and included ceramics, glass, nails, wire, stove parts, pen nibs, clothing fasteners, and cartridges. Many architectural features were noted in the excavations-for instance, postholes associated with the piers of the Smedes' additions and a chimney base and brick piers for the original house foundation.

Within the kitchen a series of floors was found, each consisting of an ashy layer overlain by a layer of sand. Artifacts and documents relating to the excavations of the site are housed at the museum on the property operated by the university. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated a national landmark

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STATE HIGHWAY NO. 108
Minute Order 016701, dated 09/26/1939
From Stephenville via Thurber and Mingus to Strawn. (Erath and Palo Pinto Counties)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0108.htm

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Texas County Courthouses:
108 Hidalgo County, Edinburg, Texas

Texas County Courthouses:
107 Henderson County, Athens, Texas

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STATE HIGHWAY NO. 107
From US 83 in Mission, northward via Palmhurst, Alton, then eastward at Cantu at the FM 2993 intersection, via McAllen, Edinburg, Elsa, Edcouch, La Villa, Santa Rosa, to US 77 in Combes, a distance of approximately 45.8 miles. (Cameron and Hidalgo Counties)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0107.htm

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Anton Wulff House
San Antonio,

Wulff, Anton Friedrich (18221894).Anton Friedrich Wulff, businessman and civic leader, was born in 1822 in Hamburg, Germany. Wulff left Hamburg and took a sailing ship to the United States on June 17, 1848, arriving in New York on August 22. Unable to find a job there or in Cincinnati, he traveled down the Ohio River to the Mississippi and on to New Orleans. His money gone, he managed to reach San Antonio, where he worked as a clerk for five dollars a month; a fellow clerk was James R. Sweet, who soon started a retail business. Wulff bettered his fortunes by working at a salary of thirty dollars a month for Joseph Landa on Main Plaza. In January 1852 he went to Fredericksburg and opened a dry-goods business with Sweet, who remained in San Antonio. In November 1852 Wulff traveled to San Antonio and married Mara Guadalupe Olivarri, a descendant of the Leal family, who came to San Antonio in 1731 from the Canary Islands. Wulff received his United States citizenship in 1854, and that year he began expanding his business activity. He moved back to San Antonio and, while retaining his Fredericksburg business, opened additional stores in Coke County, Laredo, and at Presidio del Norte. In 1857, possibly because of rising anti-German and pro-secession sentiment in San Antonio, Wulff moved his family and business to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande at Presidio del Norte, where he started a mercantile business. He supplied both United States and Confederate garrisons at Fort Davis with hay and corn. In October 1861 Lt. Col. John R. Baylor at El Paso declared Wulff a spy and ordered that he be enticed into Texas and arrested. An unsuccessful six-man attempt to kidnap Wulff on October 16 resulted in the deaths of two Confederates and one Mexican. Wulff moved to Monterrey and in 1863 took his family to Hamburg, where they remained until near the end of the Civil War.
Upon his return to San Antonio Wulff acted as agent for the San Antonio-Chihuahua City stage line and operated a profitable wagontrain between the two cities. In 1870 he constructed the "castle" on King William Street (see ANTON WULFF HOUSE); a dedicated gardener, he landscaped the grounds elaborately with flowers, decorative shrubs, and large cacti. During two terms (187579) as alderman from the predominantly German Ward 4, Wulff planted trees, shrubs, and flowers on various public plazas at his own expense. Mayor James H. French recognized Wulff's civic-minded generosity by appointing him the first city park commissioner in 1885. In 1888 San Antonio started paving Main and Alamo plazas. The following year Wulff was elected alderman-at-large, and in November 1889 he introduced resolutions that started the beautification of Alamo Plaza, known as the "Frog Pond." He designed and supervised the landscaping of the plaza, and on March 21, 1890, the businessmen of Alamo Plaza presented Wulff with an engraved gold-headed walking stick for his work in transforming the plaza "from an unsightly mudhole into a circle laid off in an artistic manner, and planted with trees, rare shrubs, roses, and other flower-bearing plants." Wulff also served as a director of the San Antonio Electric Company. He died in 1894.

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Texas County Courthouses:
106 Hemphill County, Canadian, Texas

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SH 106 was transferred to US 287 in 1939.

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STATE HIGHWAY LOOP NO. 106
Adm. Auth., dated 03/27/1981; Adm. Ltr. 006-1981, dated 06/15/1981
Sayers Loop - From US 87, approximately 1.2 miles west of Sayers, eastward to US 87, a distance of approximately 1.7 miles. (Bexar County)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SL/SL0106.htm

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