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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MFQ_robert-mcalpin-williamson_Anahuac-TX.html
Crippled by disease at 15, with a leg permanently bent at the knee, wore a pegleg which like his two natural legs was covered with his trousers. Hence he was nicknamed "Three-Legged Willie."
Settled in Texas in 1827 to practice law. Here at Fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MFP_fort-anahuac_Anahuac-TX.html
On this site first known as Perry's Point, a fort, established in 1830 by General Manuel Mier y Teran for the purpose of halting Anglo-American colonization was named Anahuac, the Aztec name of Mexico City, then the capital of Texas. The imprisonm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MFI_william-barret-travis_Anahuac-TX.html
Co-commander with James Bowie, siege of the Alamo. Born in South Carolina; moved with family in 1818 to Alabama, where at 19 he was admitted to the bar; came to Texas 1831. In anahuac he joined william H. Jack and others resisting tyranny of custo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MFG_juan-davis-bradburn_Anahuac-TX.html
Adventurer from Kentucky who first came to Texas in 1817 with an expedition seeking to expel Spain from North America. Bradburn served in the Army of the Republic of Mexico in the 1820s, and in 1830 was sent to establish a military post at the mou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FZQ_winnie-stowell_Winnie-TX.html
Winnie and Stowell are two communities in northeastern Chambers County that were founded in the mid-1890s on the Gulf & Interstate Railway. The towns share a common economic history and cultural heritage and often are referred to simply as Winnie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14ZR_mission-nuestra-senora-de-la-luz_Wallisville-TX.html
Site ofMission Nuestra Senora de la Luz
Established in 1757 by Franciscan missionaries with the purpose of civilizing and Christianizing the Orcoquiza and Bidai Indians. Abandoned in 1772.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14ZQ_old-wallisville_Wallisville-TX.html
Site ofOld Wallisville
Settled in 1825 by Elisha H. R. Wallis, a pioneer from Georgia, on land in grant of Joseph Vehlein, a contractor working to place colonists in Texas.
Chambers County was organized 1858; Wallisville was made county seat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14ZK_turtle-bayou-resolutions_Wallisville-TX.html
Near site of the signing ofTurtle Bayou Resolutions
Drafted and signed at Turtle Bayou on June 13, 1832; this first formal protest of Texas colonists against Mexican tyranny formed an early step in events that led eventually to the Texas Revolu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14ZE_mission-nuestra-senora-de-la-luz-del-orcoquisac-and-presidio-san-agustin-de-ahumada_Wallisville-TX.html
Two of the most misfortune-ridden outposts of Spain in texas, "Our Lady of the Light" mission and its auxiliary fort, were founded near here in 1756 to guard against French encroachment from the east.
The two friars who were to minister to memb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14ZD_joseph-blancpains-french-trading-post_Wallisville-TX.html
French trader Joseph Blancpain established a trading post in this vicinity in August 1754. He had been living in Natchitoches, Louisiana, where he was the owner of a mercantile store.
With a small group of men, Blancpain arrived in August and s…