Home of Gen. Sidney Sherman

The house the stone marks was one of several Sherman homes, and the Handbook traces them. Back from Kentucky after the revolution with his wife, Catherine Isabel Cox, Sherman set up Mount Vernon, a one-room log house on a bluff below the San Jacinto battleground, and in 1839 moved the family to a house on San Jacinto Bay. After annexation he settled at Harrisburg. When the Civil War came he was keeping Galveston's Island City Hotel; the Secession Convention made him the city's commandant until illness sent him home to the bay. Catherine died in 1865.

What the plaque says

Home of Gen. Sidney Sherman Site of the Home of General Sidney Sherman 1805-1873 Commander of the left wing of the Army at the Battle of San Jacinto - Member of the Texas Congress, 1842-1843 - Builder of the first Texas railroad - This house was burned in 1853 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emancipation Park — 5.5 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.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 6.3 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 6.4 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.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — 6.9 mi
  The oldest art museum in Texas, grown from a 1900 schoolroom art league into a campus of Watkin, Mies van der Rohe and later buildings, with Ima Hogg's Bayou Bend up the bayou.

More markers nearby

• Glendale Cemetery — steps away
• Site of General Offices, Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad — 0.3 mi
• Holy Cross Mission (Episcopal) — 0.3 mi
• Old Harrisburg — 0.3 mi