Site of Council Hill

Council Hill stands on private land, and no public route leads to it. Texas Escapes calls it the home of Vernal B. Lea, brother of Mrs. Sam Houston; the plaque spells his name Vernon. The Handbook of Texas says Margaret Lea's relatives began moving to Texas soon after her 1840 wedding and moved in and out of the Houstons' lives for a quarter century, while the couple shifted between Cedar Point in summer and Huntsville or Independence in autumn. A Wikipedia account adds that Alabama-Coushatta friends visited Houston's home in his last years.

What the plaque says

Site of Council Hill Site of Council Hill, home of Vernon B. Lea, brother of Mrs. Sam Houston. Here General Houston frequently met with delegations of Alabama Indians.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Huntsville State Park — 26 mi
  A Walker County pine-forest park on Lake Raven, built from 1937 by a Civilian Conservation Corps company of African American veterans, with 21 miles of trails and 160 campsites.
• Sam Houston Memorial Museum — 28 mi
  A 15-acre Huntsville campus with Sam Houston's Woodland Home and the Steamboat House where he died in 1863, a museum, an education center gallery and free grounds open dawn to dusk.

More markers nearby

• Laurel Hill Cemetery — 2.2 mi
• General James Davis — 2.2 mi
• San Jacinto County Jail — 2.4 mi
• First Baptist Church of Coldspring — 2.5 mi