Moseley's Ferry

Ferrymen needed licenses, and the county commissioners set the tolls. Michael Boren, one of Sterling Robertson's colonists, started this crossing, and it was Boren's Ferry until February 1849, when Daniel Moseley, an owner of plantations on both sides of the Brazos, took over. Moseley built a wharf for shipping cotton, and the steamer Washington loaded cotton and cordwood here in 1850, the Camden reaching the landing in 1852. After the Civil War, returning Burleson County soldiers were disbanded at the ferry.

What the plaque says

Moseley's Ferry Situated where the Old San Antonio Road crossed the Brazos River, this public ferry was begun by Michael Boren (1806-75) about 1846. The ferry and a settlement nearby were named for Daniel Moseley (1787-1856), who took over the service in 1849 and whose family ran it until 1868. Other ferrymen continued to transport travelers, livestock, and freight across the river until 1912, when the Houston & Texas Central (now the Southern Pacific) constructed a railroad bridge at this location. Today a highway bridge spans the Brazos where Moseley's Ferry once operated. (1975)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 12 mi
  The library of the forty-first president on the Texas A&M campus, opened in 1997, where George and Barbara Bush and their daughter Robin are buried in a family plot on the grounds.
• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 24 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.
• Calvert — 26 mi
  A railroad cotton town of 1868 on State Highway 6 that claimed the largest cotton gin in the world and elected Black men to county and state office during Reconstruction.
• Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway — 26 mi
  Two park units on an 11,000-acre lake between Austin and College Station, joined by a thirteen-mile trailway for hikers, cyclists and riders with primitive camps along the way.

More markers nearby

• Brazos River Levee — 1.4 mi
• Near Homesite of Judge Andrew S. Broaddus — 4.4 mi
• Cooks Point — 4.4 mi
• Bryan Air Force Base — 4.7 mi