Darwin M. Stapp

The plaque gives Stapp one line, the siege of Bexar. The Handbook gives a long public life. Born in Kentucky in 1815, he arrived in Texas in 1828 and served at Bexar and in the Grass Fight in 1835. He was Victoria County's first constable in 1837, fought at Plum Creek in 1840, and sat in the Texas House from 1851 to 1854. He was customs collector at Saluria for eight years, helped charter the Indianola Railroad Company in 1858, and ran the Stapp Hotel from 1870 until he died in 1875.

What the plaque says

Darwin M. Stapp Soldier in the Texas War for Independence Participated in the Siege of Bexar, 1835. Erected by the State of Texas, 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• De León Plaza — 0.8 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 1.6 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 25 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Silvestre De Leon — steps away
• Don Martin De Leon — steps away
• Fernando De Leon — steps away
• Dona Patricia De La Garza De Leon — steps away