Major Isaac N. Moreland

Moreland settled at Anahuac in 1834 and was secretary of the Liberty ayuntamiento. On April 17, 1835, he signed the Liberty Resolutions urging Texans to obey Mexican law and pay customs duties, yet he wrote the Anahuac Resolutions of May 4 protesting what citizens called unjust taxation. Sam Houston made him a captain of regulars and sent him to Harrisburg to recruit. At San Jacinto he served with the Twin Sisters, and an army surgeon wrote that his first shot carried away the enemy's powder box. He later commanded Fort Travis and the garrison at Galveston.

What the plaque says

Major Isaac N. Moreland Born in Georgia. Came to Texas in 1834. Storming of Bexar, 1835. Commanded the artillery at San Jacinto. Made major, July 20, 1836. Law partner of David G. Burnet, 1837. died June 7, 1840 while Chief Justice of Harris County. buried under the auspices of the Masons and the Independent Military Companies of Houston.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 0.5 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.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 1.5 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.
• Emancipation Park — 1.7 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.
• Rothko Chapel — 1.7 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.

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• Gravesite of John Kirby Allen — steps away
• William Daniel Durham — steps away
• John W. Moore — steps away
• George Allen — steps away