Site of the Battle of Fredonia

Ayish Bayou was divided in 1826. The Handbook of Texas says Martin Parmer, John S. Roberts and Burrell J. Thompson led 36 men from the bayou to Nacogdoches on November 22. Stephen Prather, who had run a trading post at the forks of the Angelina and Neches rivers since about 1820, went the other way. With Edward Teel, Alexander Horton and others, and sixty Native people, the Handbook says he took the Fredonians' fort without a shot. Mexican and colonist forces reached Nacogdoches on January 31, 1827.

What the plaque says

Site of the Battle of Fredonia Climax of first Anglo-American rebellion in East Texas. In 1826, colonizer Hayden Edwards defied the expulsion order of Mexico and founded the Republic of Fredonia - raising flag of "Independence, Liberty and Justice." When Ayish Bayou settlers refused to join, he ordered their banishment. Fredonians, from the log fort at this site, were ordered to take Ayish Bayou on January 21, 1827. That day, however, without a shot, Stephen Prather's nine Anglos and sixty Native Americans took the fort and 200 soldiers. At news of this, Edwards fled to the U.S., ending the Fredonia Rebellion. (1966)

Where it stands

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