Texas Historical Marker

Site of the Home of General Sam Houston and Family

Independence · Washington County · placed 1936

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Washington County, Texas

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Site of the home of General Sam Houston and family; Original house built in 1837 by Thomas Barron; first occupied by the Houstons in 1854; torn down and rebuilt in 1897 by James Dallas.

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