Liverpool Post Office

Warren D. C. Hall, the first postmaster, had a long record behind him. The Handbook of Texas puts his birth in South Carolina in 1794. In 1812 he joined the Gutierrez-Magee expedition, resigning in protest over the killing of royalist prisoners. He served in the defense of New Orleans, settled near Columbia in 1828 and was second in command at Anahuac and a fighter at Velasco in 1832. In 1836 he was adjutant general and at times acting secretary of war. The 1840 tax rolls list ninety enslaved people for him. He died in Galveston in 1867.

What the plaque says

Liverpool Post Office Liverpool, officially founded in 1837, received most of its mail by boat via Galveston or Velasco before the 1840s. Warren D. C. Hall (1788-1867), a leader in the Texas revolution and former secretary of war in the Republic of Texas, became Liverpool's first postmaster in 1846. Three more postmasters served before the office was closed in 1867. There was no post office in Liverpool during the reconstruction period following the Civil War; the closest was at Sandy Point, a community on the Columbia Tap Railroad. Allen Levie became postmaster in 1879, receiving mail three times a week. Thirteen years later, Margaret Wehrly moved the post office to a building away from the Liverpool center. As did many businesses, the office moved closer to the newly erected iron bridge which spanned Chocolate Bayou. From 1892 to 1900, the post office moved several times between the iron bridge and downtown Liverpool. Postal operations were usually housed in the postmaster's residence or business such as the depot, general store, or ferry office. Henry Clement built the first postal building near his home in 1900. In 1908, the new Liverpool town site was laid out on the railroad. Other postmasters, including Louisa Richardson Ackerman Faulkner, who served a term during each of her three marriages, continued to use homes or businesses near downtown until another post office was erected in 1942. With its twenty-third postmaster appointed in 1997, the Liverpool Post Office continues to serve the area. (1998)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 16 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.
• Galveston Island State Park — 20 mi
  A cattle ranch willed to the state that now runs the full width of Galveston Island, from two miles of Gulf beach across dunes and prairie to the marshes of West Galveston Bay.
• Brazos Bend State Park — 20 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.
• Space Center Houston — 21 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

• First Methodist Church of Alvin — 8.1 mi
• First Presbyterian Church of Alvin — 8.9 mi
• Confederate Cemetery — 9.8 mi
• Albert Sidney Johnston — 10 mi