Near Here at the Old Jonesboro Crossing Sam Houston

Pat B. Clark's 1937 history of Red River County fills in the crossing. On the south bank stood an old cottonwood, and Clark writes that James Clark and others tied their boats to it from 1824 for several years, while the spot served as a landing. Clark photographed the stump. He also says Lieutenant James Clark received Sam Houston into Texas at old Jonesboro in 1832, and that by the time of San Jacinto the two men knew each other well from that meeting.

What the plaque says

Near Here at the Old Jonesboro Crossing Sam Houston Near here at the Old Jonesboro Crossing, Sam Houston, an envoy of President Andrew Jackson first set foot on Texas soil, December 2, 1832.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wheelock Academy Historic Site — 9.8 mi
  The Choctaw Nation's academy for girls, rebuilt in 1884 near Millerton and a boarding school until 1955, with its museum in the old teachers' dormitory.
• Fort Towson Historic Site — 10 mi
  The 1824 Red River post where arriving Choctaw and Chickasaw families were dispersed after removal, beside the site of Doaksville, the Choctaw capital where Stand Watie surrendered in 1865.
• Lennox Woods Preserve — 12 mi
  A Nature Conservancy preserve of mature East Texas forest north of Clarksville, kept by the Lennox family for four generations, with a 1.5-mile loop under post oaks more than 300 years old.
• Eiffel Tower — 30 mi
  A 65-foot Eiffel Tower with a red cowboy hat, built by the local welders' union in 1993 beside Paris's Love Civic Center.

More markers nearby

• Jonesboro — steps away
• Jane Chandler Gill — steps away
• Jesse B. Bowman — steps away
• Arnold E. A. Roitsch Archeological Site — 1.9 mi