Home Built in 1845 by General Jerome B. Robertson

Jerome Robertson's road to Independence began at eight, when his widowed mother apprenticed him to a hatter. He took a medical degree at Transylvania University in 1835, reached Texas in September 1836 as a volunteer, and settled at Washington in 1837 to practice. There he was county coroner, mayor from 1839 to 1840 and postmaster from 1841 to 1843, and he rode out on a campaign almost every year. He sat in the Texas House in 1847 and the Senate in 1849. In January 1861 he was a Secession Convention delegate, then raised a Confederate company.

What the plaque says

Home Built in 1845 by General Jerome B. Robertson Home built in 1845 by General Jerome B. Robertson (1815-1891). A captain in the army of the Republic of Texas 1836. A captain in the Somervell Expedition 1842. Representative and Senator in the Texas Legislature; Brigadier General of Hood's Brigade C.S.A. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 0.5 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.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 11 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 — 11 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.
• Navasota — 16 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.

More markers nearby

• Baylor University for Boys — steps away
• Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor (1793-1873) — steps away
• General Sam Houston — steps away
• Baylor University on Windmill Hill — steps away