Home of Dr. Asa Hoxey

Dr. Asa Hoxey graduated in medicine in New York in 1822 but did not practice in Texas. What he practiced was planting. He is said to have arrived in 1833 with $40,000 and thirty enslaved people, built two plantations at Coles Settlement and two more in the Brazos bottoms, and abandoned those when the river kept flooding. By 1860 he held 105 enslaved people on 1,075 improved acres and had grown 500 bales of cotton, among the largest planters in Texas. In 1835 he helped form the Washington Town Company and named the town for his Georgia home.

What the plaque says

Home of Dr. Asa Hoxey Home of Dr. Asa Hoxey 1800-1863. Built in 1833 * Headquarters of many famous people during the early days of Texas Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 0.7 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 — 12 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 — 13 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 — 17 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

• Moses Austin Bryan — 0.7 mi
• Old Independence Cemetery — 0.7 mi
• Gen. James Willie — 0.7 mi
• Columns of a Building of Old Baylor University — 0.7 mi