Site of the Town of Zavala

Zavala's best-documented deal came in 1847, when Thomas B. Huling, on whose land the town was probably laid out, sold most of his interest and almost 5,000 acres of Jasper County to Jerich Durkee of London, the Handbook of Texas reports. The price was $1,000 in cash and 5,000 tin boxes of vegetable ointment. The entry says the town had thirty to forty families and was incorporated on December 24, 1838, and that a fire in the 1840s destroyed the courthouse, homes and nearly all records. It dates the closing of the post office to 1856.

What the plaque says

Site of the Town of Zavala Established upon land included in the empresario grant in 1829 to Lorenzo de Zavala in whose honor it was named * Early boat landing * Mail and stage station * Incorporated in 1838 * A post office until the Civil War * Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Martin Dies, Jr. State Park — 12 mi
  A 705-acre state park on Steinhagen Reservoir at the meeting of the Neches and Angelina rivers, with about 14 miles of paddling trails through sloughs and more than 200 campsites.

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