Four Miles Southeast to the Original Town of Velasco

The treaties signed here on May 14, 1836, were two documents, and only one was meant to be public. The ten public articles stopped hostilities, sent Mexican troops beyond the Rio Grande and exchanged prisoners. The six secret articles promised Santa Anna his freedom if he persuaded Mexico to recognize Texas and agree to a boundary no farther south than the Rio Grande. General Filisola began withdrawing on May 26, but the Texas army would not release Santa Anna, and Mexico City had already voided his acts as a prisoner.

What the plaque says

Four Miles Southeast to the Original Town of Velasco Landing place of the "Lively" first vessel bringing immigrants to Austin's colony in 1821. There the Battle of Velasco, between Texas colonists and Mexican troops, was fought June 26, 1832. A treaty of peace between Texas and Mexico was signed there May 14, 1836, by Presidents David G. Burnet and Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna but was never ratified by Mexico.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 7.5 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.
• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 17 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 21 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.
• Galveston Island State Park — 29 mi
  A cattle ranch willed to the state that now runs the full width of Galveston Island, from two miles of Gulf beach across dunes and prairie to the marshes of West Galveston Bay.

More markers nearby

• Colonel Robert M. Coleman — 0.3 mi
• Site of Town of Old Velasco — 0.6 mi
• Velasco Methodist Church — 0.6 mi
• Velasco Lodge No. 757, A. F. & A. M. — 0.9 mi