In the vicinity of Harris' place

Delaware (Lenape) people were living in the Winona area as early as 1818, the Handbook of Texas says, long before Smith County existed. By the early 1840s a school and church stood on Harris Creek, a mile south of Winona, and the school served as the voting place for Precinct Four later in that decade. A community cemetery was founded on the creek by 1858. The Texas Escapes account of the Cherokee War says the Delaware, Kickapoo, Caddo and Shawnee were among the peoples driven out of East Texas by July 25, 1839.

What the plaque says

In the vicinity of Harris' place In the vicinity of Harris' place scouts from the Army of the Republic of Texas were dispatched from the present county of Van Zandt after the battle with Cherokees and associate tribes July 16, 1839 in which Chief Bowles was killed. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tyler State Park — 4.0 mi
  A 985-acre park eight miles north of Tyler, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1935 to 1941 around a 64-acre spring-fed lake, with more than 13 miles of trails.
• Camp Ford Historic Park — 5.7 mi
  A free county park north of Tyler on the site of the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi, with a kiosk, an interpretive trail and a historical society museum downtown.
• Goodman-LeGrand House and Museum — 9.1 mi
  A Tyler house begun in 1859 as four rooms, enlarged by the Goodman family over 73 years, and left to the city in 1939 with its furnishings, in a garden that fills a city block.
• Tyler Rose Garden and Rose Museum — 10 mi
  More than 38,000 rose bushes of about 600 cultivars in a free city garden, beside a museum of the Texas Rose Festival, which began in 1933, and of the rose industry.

More markers nearby

• Nicholas Wren — steps away
• Elisha Everett Lott — 2.4 mi
• First Baptist Church of Winona — 3.3 mi
• Antioch Baptist Church — 4.1 mi