Andrew Robinson Sr.

In the census of 1826 Andrew Robinson's household held his wife Nancy, a son, a daughter and two enslaved people. His house at the La Bahia crossing served as a polling place in the state election of July 1830. The next spring he deeded land to his daughter Patsy and her husband, John W. Hall, on condition that they care for him in his old age. Hall bought out the rest of the grant and in December 1833 laid out a town on it, the start of Washington.

What the plaque says

Andrew Robinson Sr. First settler of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300" colonists to arrive in Texas. Came November 1821 with his wife Nancy and 2 children. In 1824 he received title to over 9,000 acres of land and was made a captain in the colonial militia. The town of Washington was surveyed on his grant and he became a co-founder of it. By 1830 he was operating a ferry at La Bahia Crossing as well as a hotel and saloon. In 1835 he fought in the Battle of Gonzales, where his unit first carried into battle the original Lone Star flag made by Sarah Dodson. He died 1852. (1969)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Star of the Republic Museum — steps away
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 0.2 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.
• Navasota — 5.9 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 12 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.

More markers nearby

• George Campbell Childress Statue — steps away
• Washington County — steps away
• Washington-on-the-Brazos — steps away
• Asa Brigham — 1.0 mi