Site of the Trading Post of Holland Coffee

The marker gives the Snively Expedition a single line. The Handbook of Texas says the Republic's War Department authorized it in February 1843 as a private expedition against Mexican traders along the Santa Fe Trail, with spoils split between the government and the men. About 150 volunteers called themselves the Battalion of Invincibles. In June they killed seventeen Mexican soldiers and took eighty-two prisoners, then quarreled and dissolved. On June 30 United States dragoons under Captain Philip St. George Cooke disarmed Snively's remaining men at the Arkansas River.

What the plaque says

Site of the Trading Post of Holland Coffee Established about 1837 for trade with the Indians of the Red River region and the western plains. Here many white captives of the Red Men were redeemed. From its vicinity the Snively Expedition set out for New Mexico on April 25, 1843. Abandoned after Coffee's death in 1846.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eisenhower State Park — 5.4 mi
  A bluff-top park on Lake Texoma opened in 1958 on land leased from the Corps of Engineers, in the Red River country of Fort Johnson, Colbert's Ferry and the Butterfield stages.
• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 11 mi
  The small frame house beside the Katy tracks in Denison where Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1890, bought by townspeople in 1946 and given to Texas in 1958.
• Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge — 12 mi
  A 1946 refuge on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, laid over land bought for Denison Dam and the site of the vanished railroad town of Hagerman, now a winter stop for geese.
• Choctaw Cultural Center — 14 mi
  The Choctaw Nation's history told from the Chahta side at Calera, with galleries from Nanih Waiya to the Trail of Tears and the reservation today, a living village and daily stickball.

More markers nearby

• Sophia Porter — steps away
• Fink — 6.2 mi
• Site of Fort Johnson — 6.5 mi
• Colbert's Ferry — 7.2 mi