Haynie-Embrey House

The house now stands near Nelsonville, a farm town named for D. D. Nelson, who opened a store there just after the Civil War. Edward Daughtry had settled at the site around 1855, and Isaac Lewis soon ran a store and a saw and grist mill and later a cotton gin. Many residents were German-speaking immigrants from Bohemia, who came in large numbers in the late 1860s and early 1870s and bought much of the surrounding farmland. A post office opened in 1872 with R. W. Thompson, the first physician, as postmaster; it closed in 1909.

What the plaque says

Haynie-Embrey House In 1887 Nellie Brophy Haynie (1860-1937) a widow with one son Robert (1880-1955), married Confederate Army veteran John T. Embrey (d. 1918). They built this frame Victorian house in Brenham in 1899-1900. Here they raised a family of five children. Robert Haynie and his half brother Wilford J. Embrey (1889-1975) attended law school at the University of Texas. Haynie became a prominent attorney in Abilene and a leader in the West Texas Chamber of Commerce. Embrey was Brenham city attorney for 50 years and a school board member for over 30 years. The Embrey home was moved to this site in 1975. (1978)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 22 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.
• Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 24 mi
  Two park units on an 11,000-acre lake between Austin and College Station, joined by a thirteen-mile trailway for hikers, cyclists and riders with primitive camps along the way.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 28 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 28 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.

More markers nearby

• Welcome Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi
• Industry — 3.3 mi
• Friedrich Ernst — 3.3 mi
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