Significant Landmarks

Fredville's local landmark program recognizes homes, churches, cemeteries, businesses and neighborhoods that help tell the story of the city's past. The table below lists a selection of designated landmarks. An asterisk (*) marks sites that also carry an official Texas historical marker, and each landmark has a fact sheet (PDF) with more of its history.

Selected local landmarks

No.LandmarkLocationHistoric date
1Ashwell-Rook Home*500 Block NE 12th and Rook1848
2Pennock Cabin at Dunmore Park*1300 Block S. Wrenfield Parkway1851
3Willow Fork United Presbyterian Church810 Avelon Drive1873
4Larkhollow CemeteryFernwhistle Road at Slatestone Road1880
5Hadley Home*148 S.W. Dallas Street1905
6Consolidated Broom Factory Site1180 W. Main Street1913
7Primrose Hill School4100 S. Kestrel Line Road1916
8Skyhaven Village*820 Skyreach Road1942
9Corliss Drug Store118 W. Main St.1929
10The Corley Motel935 Kittredge Street1961
11Marquee Theater140 E. Main St.1952
12Westbury Recreation Center2030 Thistle Street1964

The full register also includes many early family homes in the older neighborhoods near downtown, the sites of the city's first churches, several pioneer cemeteries and family burial plots near Bluestem Lake, a Liberty Bell replica on the City Hall plaza and a marker for the old transcontinental highway along East Main.

State markers in or near Fredville

  • Bauer Homestead*, Bauer Park in the Bluestem Lake area (1856)
  • Halbrook Field*, a former military airfield just outside the city limits (1932)
  • Tolland Cemetery*, near Halbrook Field (1867)
  • Pellow Cemetery*, Kestwick and Halden Roads in a neighboring city (1861)

Know of a site that deserves recognition? See the historical marker application.

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