Anahuac in Chambers County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)

Chambersea

Photographed by Brian Anderson, August 5, 2018

1. Chambersea Marker

Inscription. Built in 1845. Home of Thomas Jefferson Chambers, early civic and business leader whose love for Texas was proclaimed by the "Star" window in the west gable.

The modest board-and-batten pioneer house has another unique feature in the graceful, spiral exterior stairway at the front.

Surrounded by plantings, white lattice summer house, barns and outbuildings, this was center of plantation until Chambers was assassinated here in 1863.
Recorded Texas Historical Landmark-1968

Erected 1968 by State Historical Survey Committee. (Marker Number 9117.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Notable Buildings. A significant historical year for this entry is 1845.

Location. 29° 46.253′ N, 94° 41.087′ W. Marker is in Anahuac, Texas, in Chambers County. It is on Cummings Street west of Washington Avenue (State Highway 61), on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 202 Cummings Street, Anahuac TX 77514, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Houston Metropolitan Area.

It is also in the American South

and on the

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Gulf Coast.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the Republic of Texas,

and one of the Confederate States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within one mile of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Home of Thomas Jefferson Chambers (within shouting distance of this marker); The Dr. N.T. Schilling Medical Office (within shouting distance of this marker); Chambers County Courthouse (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Lone Star Canal (approx. 0.2 miles away); Events at Anahuac Leading to the Texas Revolution (approx. ¼ mile away); Chambers County (approx. 0.6 miles away); Black Education in Chambers County (approx. 0.7 miles away); Fort Anahuac (approx. one mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Anahuac.

Also see . . . Chambers, Thomas Jefferson - The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) (Submitted on August 8, 2018, by Brian Anderson of New Albany, Ohio.)

Photographed by Brian Anderson, August 5, 2018

2. Chambersea

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