Andrew Lee Brock

A cabin in the park carries his name, and it is believed to be the oldest standing building in Caldwell County. Built about 1850 in what is called the Louisiana style, it has four rooms and a loft, and its roof keeps one pitch over the porch and the rear room. Known as the Andrew Lee and Rebecca Montgomery Brock cabin, it was moved in 1979 to Lockhart's city park, just south of the square, and has since been renovated.

What the plaque says

Andrew Lee Brock Tennessee native Andrew Lee Brock (1830-1904) moved to Caldwell County in 1848, and he married Rebecca Montgomery Wayland. Two years later, Rebecca's father gave the couple a parcel of land on Boggy Creek as a wedding gift, and Brock built a log cabin on the site. Brock cultivated cotton, grains and vegetables and also operated a cotton gin on his property. The growing family later relocated to a house on 201 acres, and Brock enlarged the house to accommodate nine children. Brock raised and sold mules and horses, and was also a prolific developer in Lockhart's business district. Many of the twelve commercial buildings financed by Andrew Lee Brock remain in use today. 175 Years of Texas Independence * 1836 - 2011

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lockhart Courthouse Square — 0.2 mi
  A cotton-era courthouse town named the Barbecue Capital of Texas, built near the 1840 Plum Creek fight that followed the killing of Comanche leaders at peace talks.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 16 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.
• Palmetto State Park — 20 mi
  Dwarf palmettos, bogs and a spring-fed oxbow on the San Marcos River, with CCC stonework from the 1930s, a swamp an hour from Austin and San Antonio.
• McKinney Falls State Park — 21 mi
  Limestone falls on Onion Creek inside Austin, where people camped under a rock overhang for thousands of years and a financier of the Texas Revolution built his stone ranch house.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Plum Creek — steps away
• Caldwell County — 0.2 mi
• Dr. D. Port Smythe — 0.2 mi
• Susanna Dickinson Hannig - Messenger of the Alamo — 0.4 mi