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Lorenzo de Zavala

Houston · Harris County · placed 1936

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Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Vice president of the Republic of Texas. His plank-covered log house, the first in the municipality of Harrisburg. built in 1829, served as a hospital for the wounded after the Battle of San Jacinto.

Here de Zavala died, November 15, 1836. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

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