On Mount Mariah Road, 0.1 miles north of Mock Lane, on the right when traveling north.
Born in Georgia, Jacob Montgomery Shannon (1804-1878) came to Texas at the age of 17, while the region was under Mexican rule. He married Catherine "Kittie" Yoakum in 1823, and in 1831 Shannon received a league of land in this vicinity, where he . . . — — Map (db m207379) HM
Near Farm to Market Road 1463, 0.5 miles south of Jackson Road.
Members of Stephen F. Austin's second colony, Noah Griffith (1786-1853) and his wife Esther (Wightman) (1788-1863) came to Texas in 1829 from New York. They lived in the port community of Matagorda before moving here in 1831. This site is part of . . . — — Map (db m155617) HM
On Alternate Farm to Market Road 1486, 0.5 miles south of Jackson Road, on the right when traveling north.
Elias R. Wightman, a surveyor in Stephen F. Austin's first colony, returned to the United States in 1828 to recruit additional settlers. Two colonists who joined him in New York were his sister Esther (1788-1863) and her husband Noah Griffith . . . — — Map (db m155615) HM
