Site of Jane Long's Tavern

Jane Long's Brazoria boarding house had an earlier chapter. In 1819 she set out for Nacogdoches with her two children and Kian, an enslaved person. On Bolivar Peninsula, after the other families left, only Kian and her daughter Ann remained with her. She bought W. T. Austin's boarding house here in 1832 and ran it for five years. At Richmond she held twelve enslaved people in 1840 and nineteen by 1861, valued at $13,300. The Handbook of Texas does not say what became of Kian.

What the plaque says

Site of Jane Long's Tavern Jane Herbert Wilkinson (1798-1880) was born in Maryland and moved to Natchez, Mississippi, in 1812. There in 1815 she married physician and soldier James Long (c. 1793-1822). Jane was granted land in Austin's colony in 1827, and opened a boarding house on this site in 1832. The busy port and tavern became a popular center of Anglo political activity. Here Jane hosted a benefit for stephen F. Austin in 1835, upon his release from Mexican prison, and a ball in October, 1836, attended by President Sam Houston and the adjourned Congress. She moved to Richmond in 1837 to operate a popular hotel there. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 6.6 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.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 8.8 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.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 15 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.
• Brazos Bend State Park — 22 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.

More markers nearby

• Dr. Sofie Deligath Herzog — 0.2 mi
• Don Carlos Barrett — 0.2 mi
• Brazoria Townsite — 0.2 mi
• Site of the Home of John Austin — 0.3 mi