On State Highway 36 at Gulf Prairie Road, on the right when traveling east on State Highway 36.
Fought by Texan army of 23 men under Capt. Randal Jones (1786-1873), sent out 1824 by Stephen F. Austin to the Lower Brazos to fight cannibal Karankawa Indians. Scouts found the camp here. Attack at dawn found Indians ready with spears. Jones’ . . . — — Map (db m90241) HM
On Weldon Road at State Highway 36, on the right when traveling east on Weldon Road.
John Greenville McNeel came to Texas in 1822 with his parents and brothers. Each of the men received land grants from the Mexican government as members of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" colony. Located near this site was the Ellerslie . . . — — Map (db m9453) HM
Near Gulf Prairie Road, 0.2 miles south of Texas Highway 36, on the left when traveling south.
Born near Austinville, Virginia, as was her brother Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836), Emily moved with her father Moses Austin (1761-1821) and mother Maria Brown Austin (1768-1824) to Missouri in 1798. The family operated lead mines there and . . . — — Map (db m90628) HM
Near Gulf Prairie Road, 0.2 miles south of Texas Highway 36, on the left when traveling south.
Pioneer Cemetery. Originally part of Peach Point Plantation. Used by descendants of James Franklin Perry and wife, Emily Austin Bryan Perry, Stephen F. Austin’s sister, and by the community since 1829. In 1836, Austin, the “Father of . . . — — Map (db m90591) HM
Near Gulf Prairie Road, 0.2 miles south of Texas Highway 36, on the left when traveling south.
Heroic early Texas soldier. Fought in Battle of the Medina, near San Antonio, 1813. Returned east afterward, but moved to Texas as a colonist in 1824. Fought on behalf of Mexico to quell Fredonian Rebellion, 1827; but against Santa Anna’s agents . . . — — Map (db m90589) HM
Near Gulf Prairie Road, 0.2 miles south of Texas Highway 36, on the left when traveling south.
A native of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, James Franklin Perry moved to Potosi, Missouri, in 1808. He joined the mercantile business of his relatives Samuel and John Perry, and became a partner in 1818.
While living in Potosi, Perry met and . . . — — Map (db m90627) HM
On State Highway 36 at Gulf Prairie Road and Peach Point Road, on the right when traveling east on State Highway 36.
Born in Missouri. Rode a mule to Texas in 1831 to join his uncle, Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas. A private in Texas War for Independence. Legislator, congressman, member of Texas Secession Convention. Enlisted as a private in the Civil War, but . . . — — Map (db m53084) HM
Near Gulf Prairie Road, 0.2 miles south of Texas Highway 36, on the left when traveling south.
Adjutant of the Texas army in Battle of Velasco, June 26, 1832. Wounded there, he was guarding civilians at time Texas won independence in Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836.
A bosom friend of Stephen F. Austin, Caldwell received land . . . — — Map (db m90590) HM
Near Gulf Prairie Road, 0.2 miles south of Texas Highway 36, on the left when traveling south.
In Texas War for Independence, joined Matamoros expedition of January 1836. In detachment that captured horses of Gen. Urrea of Mexican army, Brown was made captive in a counterattack, and spent 11 months in prison in Mexico, but finally escaped. . . . — — Map (db m90602) HM
On State Highway 36 at Weldon Road, on the left when traveling east on State Highway 36.
Founded 1828 by Henry Wm. Munson, who bought site from Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas. This land joined Peach Point Plantation, Austin's home. Munson, one of Texans in uprising over injustices at Anahuac and Velasco in 1832, died in yellow fever . . . — — Map (db m244748) HM
On Brazos River Road east of Highway 2004, on the left when traveling east.
Thomas Phillip Crosby (1799-1860) came to Texas from New York in 1830. After surveying sections of land along the Colorado River in 1830, he settled on this tract along the Brazos River with an eye toward building a landing for lower Brazos River . . . — — Map (db m172701) HM
Near State Highway 36, 0.1 miles west of Old Brazos River Road (County Road 400), on the right when traveling west.
Born at Old Brazoria, Robert Edward Lee Stringfellow (1866-1941) began his career on a cattle ranch at the age of 14. Soon he acquired his own herd. He opened a Velasco meat market in 1890 and provided beef for workers building jetties at the . . . — — Map (db m90644) HM
Near Gulf Prairie Road, 0.2 miles south of Texas Highway 36, on the left when traveling south.
Grandson of Moses Austin, whose dream of Anglo-American colony changed course of Texas history.
Came to Texas with his mother and stepfather in 1831; served in Texas army from 1835 to 1838. A highly successful planter, he was instrumental in . . . — — Map (db m111119) HM
