Harrison County

The Handbook of Texas gives Jonas Harrison a life of moves: born October 11, 1777, in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, he lived in Michigan Territory and in New York before Georgia, where he married in 1820. He reached Texas that December. From 1828 through 1831 he served as alcalde of the Tenehaw Municipality, and he was its delegate to the Convention of 1832. He died on August 6, 1836. Harrison County was named in his honor.

What the plaque says

Harrison County Formed from Shelby County; created January 28, 1839; organized June 12, 1842. Named in honor of Jonas Harrison, a pioneer statesman of New Jersey, who came to Texas in 1820. A member of the First Convention of Texas held at San Felipe in 1832. Died in 1836. Marshall, the county seat. Named in honor of John Marshall, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Harrison County Historical Museum — 7.0 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 7.1 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 7.2 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 11 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• Town of Scottsville — 1.6 mi
• Marshall Pottery — 4.0 mi
• Marshall-Shreveport Stagecoach Road — 5.1 mi
• Marshall — 6.7 mi