Mission San Francisco de los Tejas

The marker names Dr. Albert Woldert as the man who located the site. Aldrich's county history describes him as a Tyler physician, born there May 9, 1867, in practice since 1893, and says he located the sites of both missions in Houston County even though he never lived there. The Texas Centennial Commission gave him second prize for the oldest relic, a cannon of about 1690 found near the San Francisco mission. The Handbook of Texas says more recent research puts the mission on San Pedro Creek east of Augusta, a few miles west of the replica.

What the plaque says

Mission San Francisco de los Tejas Was founded near this marker May 24, 1690, at the Nabedache (Tejas) Indian Village ----------------- Erected, A. D. 1934, by DeZavala Chapter, Texas Historical and Landmarks Association. ----------------- Located by: Dr. Albert Woldert, Tyler, Texas. Miss Adina DeZavala, San Antonio, Texas Assisted by Mr. J. M. Lovell, Augusta, Texas

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission Tejas State Park — 0.5 mi
  A 661-acre pine-forest park on the old El Camino Real near Weches, with a 1930s replica of the 1690 mission, the Rice Family Log Home and trails past remnants of the Spanish road.
• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 6.4 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.
• Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area — 12 mi
  A Davy Crockett National Forest lake of about 45 acres, built by the CCC in 1936 from a sawmill log pond, with a swimming beach, camping and the start of the 20-mile Four-C Trail.
• Texas State Railroad Excursion Train — 24 mi
  A round trip of about 25 miles of track between the Palestine and Rusk depots through the Piney Woods, on a line built by prison labor and reopened as a tourist railroad in 1976.

More markers nearby

• The Joseph R. Rice Log Cabin — 0.5 mi
• Mission San Francisco de los Tejas — 0.5 mi
• Community of Weches — 0.6 mi
• Weches CCC Camp — 0.8 mi