One-Eighth Mile South to Peach Point

Peach Point ran on the labor of enslaved people, and the Handbook of Texas records some of the terms. They were allowed small garden plots, and some had an acre of cotton whose sale was credited to their accounts with merchants. Those made to work Sundays in peak periods, sugar-making above all, were paid a dollar a day. Cholera and other illnesses struck the family and servants between June and October 1833. A 1909 hurricane destroyed the house, but a room Austin used survived with his library, according to the account of his 1910 removal.

What the plaque says

One-Eighth Mile South to Peach Point Home of Mrs. Emily M. Perry 1795-1851, only sister of Stephen F. Austin, who regarded the place as his home after the burning of San Felipe on March 29, 1836.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 11 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 11 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 16 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.

More markers nearby

• Major Guy M. Bryan, C.S.A. — steps away
• Battle of Jones Creek — steps away
• Major Reuben R. Brown — steps away
• William Joel Bryan — steps away