Lorenzo de Zavala

After the convention Zavala rejoined his family at Zavala Point on Buffalo Bayou, and they fled to Galveston Island ahead of Santa Anna's army. The peace commission to Mexico City came to nothing when Texas military units blocked it, and Zavala came home in poor health. He resigned the vice presidency on October 17, 1836. Less than a month later his rowboat overturned in Buffalo Bayou during a norther; soaked and half frozen, he developed pneumonia and died. The small plot where he was buried, marked by the state in 1931, has since sunk into the bayou.

What the plaque says

Lorenzo de Zavala Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Vice president of the Republic of Texas. His plank-covered log house, the first in the municipality of Harrisburg. built in 1829, served as a hospital for the wounded after the Battle of San Jacinto. Here de Zavala died, November 15, 1836. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 1.1 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 — 15 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.
• Emancipation Park — 16 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.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 17 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.

More markers nearby

• de Zavala Plaza — 0.6 mi
• Lynch's Ferry — 2.8 mi
• Home of Mrs. Margaret McCormick — 2.9 mi
• Hannah Este Burnet — 3.1 mi