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Brazos County Historic Markers

Use the page numbers at the bottom of the page to navigate the historical markers listed below. Click on the thumbnail images to see a larger size image, and click the title of each historic marker to see more information about it.

Also available online is an interactive Google map of historic markers in Brazos County.

Main Drill Field, Texas A&M University

Date Added: 2003

Marker Text:

Texas A&M University opened in October 1876 and established the Corps of Cadets to fulfill its Congressional mandate to teach military tactics. The students at what was then an all-male institution were required to serve in the corps and...

Narrative/Supportive Research:

Main Drill Field, Texas A&M University, Corps, Simpson

Special Directions/Instructions:

Marker is located on the southeast side of the Simpson Drill Field, across West Lamar Street from the entrance to the Memorial Student Center, central TAMU campus.

GPS Coordinates: 30.613280, -96.343420

Site of Villa Maria Ursuline Academy

Date Added: 2005

Marker Text:

The Ursuline Sisters, founded by St. Angela in Italy in 1535, opened their first girls' school in North America in Quebec in 1639. In 1727, they opened the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans, followed in 1846 with the Ursuline Academy in Galveston....

Narrative/Supportive Research:

Villa Maria Ursuline Academy of Bryan, Texas

Villa Maria Ursuline Academy Marker Dedication

Special Directions/Instructions:

2400 Osborn Ln. near its intersection with Ursuline Ave. and E. Villa Maria Rd., Bryan

GPS Coordinates: 30.676389, -96.352722

Waldrop House

Date Added: 1983

Marker Text:

Designed by Houston architects Jones & Tabor, this home was built for Allister (1877-1936) and Nanne Waldrop in the early 1900s. Waldrop, a prominent area retail merchant, also served as President of the Bryan School Board. The Waldrop house...

Narrative/Supportive Research:

History of the Waldrop House

Waldrop Marker Dedication Program

Special Directions/Instructions:

615 E. 29th St., Bryan.

GPS Coordinates: 30.669333, -96.368111

Wesa Weddington

Date Added: 1983

Marker Text:

Granddaughter of Harvey Mitchell, a pioneer settler of Brazos County, Wesa Weddington began teaching Latin and Spanish in 1903 in Bryan public schools. She received a Masters Degree in 1918 from Columbia University and then taught while serving...

Narrative/Supportive Research:

Miss Wesa Weddington

Special Directions/Instructions:

From the intersection of SH 6 and Boonville Rd. (FM 158) take Boonville Rd. E approx. .5 miles to Boonville Cemetery.

GPS Coordinates: 30.672778, -96.330750

Wellborn Cemetery

Date Added: 2001

Marker Text:

The town of Wellborn was founded in 1867 along the Houston and Texas Central railroad line. By 1874, with the first documented burial -- that of two-year-old Newton Farquhar -- a cemetery was in existence to serve the community.

Narrative/Supportive Research:

Wellborn Cemetery History

Wellborn Cemetery Dedication

Special Directions/Instructions:

4119 Greens Prairie Road West, near its intersection with Royder Rd., 2 blocks east of FM 2154 on Greens Prairie Rd., Wellborn.

GPS Coordinates: 30.533528, -96.299444

Wilkerson House

Date Added: 1983

Marker Text:

Built in 1912 by noted Bryan architect and contractor Charlie Jenkins, this home is located in a neighborhood where many of the town's business leaders lived during the 1910s and 1920s. Owned by banker A.W. Wilkerson until 1919, it then was...

Narrative/Supportive Research:

History of the Wilkerson House

Wilkerson Marker Dedication Program

Special Directions/Instructions:

614 E. 29th St., Bryan.

GPS Coordinates: 30.669639, -96.367806

James Wilson

Date Added: 1997

Marker Text:

(1821-1904) Ireland native James Wilson immigrated to the United States in 1842. He graduated in 1847 from Lafayette College in Boston, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1850, the year he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. Wilson...

Narrative/Supportive Research:

Reverend James Wilson, Presbyterian minister

James Wilson Dedication

Special Directions/Instructions:

From the intersection of SH 6 and SH 21 (NE Bryan) go NE on SH 21 approx. 14.5 miles to FM 974; then NW on FM 974 approx. 6 miles to Macey Rd.; then N on Macey Rd. approx. .8 miles toNew Church Cemetery road, then NW on Church approx. .4 miles to cemetery.

GPS Coordinates: 30.908333, -96.283333

Wixon Cemetery

Date Added: 1995

Marker Text:

The rural farming community of Wixon was settled in the late 1860s by former residents of several war-torn southern states. The Wixon School and Wixon Cumberland Presbyterian Church were established in the 1870s on land adjacent to this cemetery...

Narrative/Supportive Research:

History of the Wixon Cemetery

List of Marked Graves in the Wixon Cemetery

Wixon Cemetery Marker Dedication

Special Directions/Instructions:

From the intersection of SH 6 and U.S. Hwy. 190 go NE on U.S. Hwy. 190 approx. 5 miles to FM 2776; then NW on FM 2776 approximately .6 miles to cemetery gate.

GPS Coordinates: 30.755583, -96.313056