Felipe Enrique Neri Baron de Bastrop

Bastrop settled in San Antonio in 1806, ran a freighting business and in 1810 became second alcalde. Loyal to Spain, he and Sebastian Rodriguez posed as friends of Hidalgo's insurgents while apparently keeping the royalist junta informed, and rode with the rebels to the Wells of Bajan, where their leaders were captured. As a legislator in Saltillo he helped pass the colonization act of 1825. He was paid from his constituents' contributions, which were small: when he died on February 23, 1827, his fellow legislators paid for his funeral, and he was buried in Saltillo.

What the plaque says

Felipe Enrique Neri Baron de Bastrop (1770-1829) Erected in recognition of the distinguished service to Texas Pioneer Red River empresario. Land commissioner of Austin's colony. Member of the Congress of Coahuila and Texas. In his honor this county and county seat have been named.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bastrop State Park — 0.2 mi
  The westernmost loblolly pines in the United States, cut off from the East Texas forest by a hundred miles of post oak, burned almost entirely in 2011 and growing back.
• Texas Wendish Heritage Museum — 18 mi
  A museum at Serbin of the Wends, a Slavic people from Lusatia whose congregation of nearly 600 crossed on the Ben Nevis in 1854, losing seventy-three to cholera on the way.
• McKinney Falls State Park — 27 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.
• Lockhart Courthouse Square — 28 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.

More markers nearby

• The CCC at Bastrop State Park — steps away
• Lost Pines of Texas — 0.6 mi
• The Gotier Trace — 0.6 mi
• Early History of the City of Bastrop — 0.6 mi