Old Osage

The families who made Osage a town came together. Tom Hubbard's family arrived from Mississippi in 1851 to settle along Harvey Creek, and in 1855 a thirty-six-wagon caravan brought many more families of Scottish, English and Irish descent from the Laurel, Mississippi, area. A Confederate post office opened in 1862. E. B. Carruth's school of 1874 drew students from a hundred miles around, who boarded with local families. When the railroad founded Weimar in 1873, business moved there, and by 1900 none was left at Osage.

What the plaque says

Old Osage Site of 1820 trading post of Jesse Burnam. His ferry on the Colorado River helped Gen. Sam Houston reach San Jacinto, 1836. To cut off Santa Anna, Houston then burned post and ferry. Town started in 1850s was named for Osage orange trees. In 1861, Civil War recruiting center. Furnished most of Co. A, 5th Texas Cav., Green's Brigade. This park, on land deeded by Edward Austin for school and churches, includes cemetery and graves of many Civil War veterans. Was also burial site, Wm. B. Scates, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. (1965)

Where it stands

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