Site of the Delaware Indian Village

The Handbook places remnants of a Missouri band of Delawares in East Texas about 1820. In 1828 Gen. Manuel de Mier y Teran estimated 150 to 200 Delaware families near the Red and Sabine rivers; they asked for land and for teachers of reading and writing, but Mexico never granted title. After the Cherokee War of 1839 most were pushed north of the Red River. Delawares such as John Conner, Jim Shaw and Black Beaver later worked as scouts, guides and interpreters. They were moved to the Brazos Indian Reservation in 1854 and to the Washita River in 1859.

What the plaque says

Site of the Delaware Indian Village Noted as interpreters and messengers of peace, the Delawares were chiefly instrumental in bringing other tribes to the General Treaty at Bird's Fort (in the present county of Tarrant) in 1843. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 4.4 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.

More markers nearby

• Site of Lacy's Fort — 0.3 mi
• Camp Alto, World War II Prisoner of War Camp — 0.9 mi
• A. Frank Smith United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi
• Robert F. Mitchell — 1.4 mi