Site of the Home of Elizabeth Powell

The 1936 stone remembers an army's camp, but the name on it belonged to an innkeeper. Elizabeth Powell, a widow, had kept a boarding house in New Orleans as Madam Powell before entering Texas in 1828, and her league here was grant number one in Austin's second colony. Her dog-run house stood on the road from Brazoria and Columbia to San Felipe, and William B. Travis and Anson Jones lodged there. No record shows that her 1836 claim for $4,454.12 in war losses was ever paid. The site is on private land and is not open to visitors.

What the plaque says

Site of the Home of Elizabeth Powell Built before March 21, 1831, when the land was granted to her. This point marks the most eastern advance of Urrea's army and the most southern advance of Santa Anna, who turned east from here to the Brazos and San Jacinto. Here the Mexican Army encamped after the Battle of San Jacinto

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge — 24 mi
  Ten thousand acres of native coastal prairie northeast of Eagle Lake, kept for a critically endangered grouse, many of whose birds are hatched in captivity and released here.
• San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site — 26 mi
  Stephen F. Austin's colonial capital on a Brazos bluff, the town of the Consultation and the first Texas newspapers, burned by its own garrison in the Runaway Scrape of 1836.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 28 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.

More markers nearby

• Kendleton — 2.6 mi
• Terry v. Adams — 2.8 mi
• Beasley — 3.9 mi
• Hope Lutheran Church — 4.0 mi