Charles Haynes

The Buckeye Rangers who brought Haynes to Texas were raised around Cincinnati in the spring of 1836 by James C. Allen and a group called the Friends of Texas. Mass meetings and benefit theater nights paid for supplies, and the arms were apparently lent by the city's militia. Between seventy-five and 100 men left Cincinnati on the steamboat Farmer on June 6, sailed from New Orleans and landed at Velasco. There they served as President David G. Burnet's bodyguard after a plot to seize him came to light. Most of the volunteers stayed and became Texans.

What the plaque says

Charles Haynes (September 12, 1814 - December 29, 1868) Born in Vermont, Charles Haynes came to Texas in 1836 with the "Buckeye Rangers" of Ohio to fight for independence. He settled at Lockhart, operated a blacksmith shop, was a member of the first county commissioners' court, a justice of the peace, and a leader in Masonic work. About 1859 he moved with his family to Llano County. At Comanche schoolhouse in 1860, he organized Llano Lodge No. 242, A. F. & A. M. Twice married, he was father of eight children. (1974)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Longhorn Cavern State Park — 12 mi
  A cave carved by an underground river in the Hill Country, cleared of mud by hand in the 1930s and reached down 52 stone steps on a guided tour.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 14 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.
• Inks Lake State Park — 15 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park — 17 mi
  The Johnson City district of the national park: the Victorian house where Lyndon Johnson grew up, and the stone barns his grandfather built in the Johnson Settlement.

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• Fuchs Cemetery — 5.7 mi
• Robert Price — 6.6 mi
• Joseph Bird — 7.3 mi
• Granite Mountain — 8.3 mi