Marker Inscription
Architecture, Social History
Historic Place
Fowler-Jenkins House
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About this site
Fowler-Jenkins House is a historic place in Bastrop, Bastrop County, dedicated in 1978. It is one of 81 historic places documented in Bastrop County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 296 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.1136, -97.3178 near Bastrop. The nearest cataloged historic site is Jenkins, Hartford, Home (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Erhard, A. A., House, Elzner, Prince, House, and Klockman - Elzner Home.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2078003263. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Fowler-Jenkins House at 1302 Pecan Street in Bastrop is a Late Victorian home built in 1906 by J. P. Fowler Jr. and purchased in 1912 by Hartford and Beulah Jenkins. Hartford Jenkins served as Bastrop County's first superintendent of schools and later as county judge, commissioner, and district clerk. The house was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgatlas.thc.texas.gov
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