Home of Thomas Jefferson Chambers

The plaque lists offices; the Anahuac years were mostly lawsuits and lost campaigns. Chambers ran for governor in 1851, 1853, 1861 and 1863 and never won. In 1854 he won a charter for a company to build 4,000 miles of road for an amphibious vehicle, which never ran. On the night of March 15, 1865, someone fired a shotgun through the window of his upstairs parlor, killing him. No one was arrested, though neighbors suspected Albert V. Willcox, and his widow soon sold the house and wharf to Charles Willcox, his opponent in the townsite suit.

What the plaque says

Home of Thomas Jefferson Chambers (1802 - 1865) Surveyor general of Texas, 1829; sole superior judge of Texas before 1836; active in the cause of independence; member of Secession Convention, 1861. Chambersea, later Anahuac, and a Texas county were named in his honor.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 24 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 29 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.

More markers nearby

• Lone Star Canal — steps away
• Events at Anahuac Leading to the Texas Revolution — 0.2 mi
• Chambers County — 0.6 mi
• Black Education in Chambers County — 0.7 mi