Campbell Cabin

The cabin follows a dog-run plan, an open passage between two rooms under one roof. John Campbell, an immigrant from County Donegal, built a one-room log cabin about five miles southwest of Seguin, and his family later added a second room with a fireplace, the dog run and front and back porches. Peter Campbell, a farmer and rancher, lived in it and enlarged it as his family grew. The Hoermann family later donated the cabin to the Seguin Conservation Society, which moved it to its present place in 1979.

What the plaque says

Campbell Cabin John Campbell of Ireland, who migrated to Seguin before 1847, possibly built the first room of this log cabin about 1850. In 1851 he returned to his native country and persuaded several family members, including his brother Peter Campbell, to settle here also. A farmer and rancher, Peter lived in the cabin and later enlarged it to accommodate his growing family. The cabin was originally located southwest of Seguin and was the home of Campbell descendants until 1957. Moved to this site in 1979, it now serves as a reminder of the area's pioneer settlers. 1982

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 13 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Gruene Historic District — 15 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 23 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 — 23 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.

More markers nearby

• Colonel John Ireland — steps away
• Guadalupe County, C.S.A. — steps away
• Juan Seguin — 0.3 mi
• Juan Nepomuceno Seguin — 0.3 mi