Hannah Este Burnet

Hannah Este married David G. Burnet in Morristown, New Jersey, on December 8, 1830. He had used money from the sale of his colonization rights to buy a fifteen-horsepower steam sawmill, and in March 1831 the couple sailed from New York on the schooner Cull, reaching Galveston Bay on April 4. Burnet set the mill on the San Jacinto River and built a simple four-room house called Oakland on 279 acres facing Burnet Bay. Hannah bore four children, but only William survived; he was killed at Spanish Fort, Alabama, in 1865, seven years after her death.

What the plaque says

Hannah Este Burnet Born in Morriston, N. J., December 8, 1800; died in 1858. Wife of David G. Burnet, president ad interim of Texas, March 16 to Oct. 22, 1836.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 2.8 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 16 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 20 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 20 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.

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• Lynch's Ferry — 1.6 mi
• Homesite (Point Pleasant) of William Scott — 2.3 mi
• Humble Oil & Refining Company — 2.9 mi
• Lorenzo de Zavala — 3.1 mi