Site of the Home in 1836 of Dr. George Moffit Patrick

Patrick, born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1801, took a medical degree at Transylvania University and came to the Harrisburg district in January 1828. He was with Travis when the Anahuac fort fell in July 1835 and signed the articles of the provisional government that November. During the Runaway Scrape his farm, Deepwater, was for a time the seat of government. After San Jacinto Houston moved the army onto the farm because, as Robert Hancock Hunter wrote, the dead Mexicans began to smell. Patrick later served twice as grand master of the Grand Lodge of Texas.

What the plaque says

Site of the home in 1836 of Dr. George Moffit Patrick, 1801-1889. Pioneer surveyor. Here the Texas army encamped after the Battle of San Jacinto and cabinet meetings were held. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 4.4 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 10 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 15 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 15 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.

More markers nearby

• Deer Park — steps away
• Battle of San Jacinto — 2.3 mi
• Texas Army Attacked in Four Divisions — 2.3 mi
• Home of Mrs. Margaret McCormick — 3.6 mi