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By Cosmos Mariner, June 4, 2013
Sam Houston Whittling Site Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On 11th Street (U.S. 190) at North Sam Houston Avenue (State Highway 75), on the right when traveling west on 11th Street. |
| | This corner was a favorite site where General Sam Houston sat in a special hide-bottom chair to whittle small objects and talk with customers at the General Mercantile Store owned by his friends Thomas and Sandford Gibbs. Early records of the . . . — — Map (db m111866) HM |
| On 11th Street (U.S. 190) just east of Sam Houston Avenue (State Highway 75), on the left when traveling east. |
| | Old Gibbs Store, oldest business in Texas under original ownership and on first site. Established 1841 in Republic of Texas by Thomas Gibbs. Building erected in 1847 after Sanford Saint John Gibbs joined firm. General Sam Houston was steady . . . — — Map (db m201852) HM |
| On University Avenue at 12th Street, on the left when traveling south on University Avenue. |
| | General Sam Houston is credited with having sat on this corner to whittle and tell stories to groups of listeners who gathered around him while visiting a store operated at this location during the years the Houston family lived in Huntsville . . . — — Map (db m111868) HM |
May. 10, 2024
