Site of the Town of Boonville

The plaque lists the founders; the Handbook of Texas describes the town they laid out. Congress appointed a committee to choose the site, and the county bought 150 acres in 1841. The town was built around a public square with room for a courthouse. While it was county seat, Boonville had a stage stop and a hotel, and it heard speeches by Sam Houston and sermons by circuit preachers. The county jail was remembered as the strongest in the Texas Republic, with solid oak walls 32 inches thick and a dungeon reached through a trap door.

What the plaque says

Site of the Town of Boonville Established in 1841 as the county seat of Navasota County by John Millican, John H. Jones, J. Ferguson, E. Seale, and Mordecai Boon whose name it bears. The name of the county was changed to Brazos in 1842. Boonville flourished until 1866 when Bryan was established on the railroad. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum — 5.4 mi
  The library of the forty-first president on the Texas A&M campus, opened in 1997, where George and Barbara Bush and their daughter Robin are buried in a family plot on the grounds.
• Navasota — 24 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 24 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.
• Independence and Old Baylor Park — 24 mi
  A crossroads north of Brenham that was the richest town in Texas when it won Baylor University in 1845, refused the railroad, and lost the college to Waco and Belton in 1886.

More markers nearby

• Wesa Weddington — steps away
• Allen Academy — 0.9 mi
• Site of Villa Maria Ursuline Academy — 1.3 mi
• First Presbyterian Church — 2.1 mi