Site of the Camp of Stephen F. Austin

The weeks around Austin's camp were spent arguing over whether to attack at all. On October 25, 1835, the volunteers debated strategy: Sam Houston, who had come from the Consultation, urged delay for training and for cannon to batter the fortifications, but Austin and others won support for pressing on. Even so, his officers twice balked at an assault. On November 8 William Barret Travis led the capture of 300 Mexican mules and horses grazing beyond the Medina River, and when another planned attack was called off in late November, Austin left for diplomatic duty in the United States.

What the plaque says

Site of the camp of Stephen F. Austin (October 20-26, 1835) while assembling troops preparatory to the attack on the Mexican garrison at San Antonio * * After his appointment on November 12 as Commissioner to the United States, the Texans, under Colonels Ben Milam and Frank W. Johnson stormed and captured San Antonio, December 10, 1835. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission Concepción — 4.1 mi
  A stone church dedicated in 1755 that has never fallen into ruin, its convento ceilings still painted, and the ground where the Texas Revolution's fight for San Antonio began.
• La Villita Historic Arts Village — 4.1 mi
  The little village across the river from the presidio, where Cos surrendered San Antonio in 1835, rebuilt by Depression-era youth crews as a working crafts village.
• The Alamo — 4.1 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.
• San Antonio River Walk — 4.2 mi
  A Depression-era park one level below downtown, built because San Antonio refused to pave its river after the 1921 flood, and designed by an architect the project later fired.

More markers nearby

• Saint Philip's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi
• Young Perry Alsbury — 1.3 mi
• Goliad Road — 1.4 mi
• Salado Valley — 1.6 mi