Site of the Home of Randal Jones

Born in Georgia in 1786, Jones fought in the "Canoe Fight" on the Alabama River in 1813 and then traded with Indian nations from a store at Nacogdoches, dealing at times with Jean Laffite. He escorted Jane Long from Louisiana to join her husband, and in 1822 he and his brother James built her a house on San Jacinto Bay. In 1824 he urged Austin to require registered brands, prevent prairie fires and forbid the killing of deer and mustangs. That year he married Polly Andrews; they had nine children.

What the plaque says

Site of the Home of Randal Jones 1786-1873 Member of Long's expedition in 1819 -- Captain of militia under Austin in 1824 - Member of the General Consultation, 1835 - On this land granted him in 1824 he built the house in which "Deaf" Smith died, November 30, 1837 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brazos Bend State Park — 17 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.
• The Menil Collection — 24 mi
  John and Dominique de Menil's free museum in Montrose: a grey-sided Renzo Piano building among bungalows, holding antiquities, Surrealism and art of Oceania under natural light.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — 24 mi
  The oldest art museum in Texas, grown from a 1900 schoolroom art league into a campus of Watkin, Mies van der Rohe and later buildings, with Ima Hogg's Bayou Bend up the bayou.
• Rothko Chapel — 24 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.

More markers nearby

• Walter Moses Burton — steps away
• Thomas Jefferson Smith — steps away
• Early Courthouse Square — steps away
• Jane Long Boarding House — steps away