Site of William Millican's Gin House

Millican's gin held the room, and the roll of the room is the story. Andrew Kent traveled thirty-five miles to attend and later died in the Alamo; George Sutherland's son William died there too. Sutherland and John Alley led companies to Bexar. Patrick Usher died a prisoner in Perote, and Paul Scarborough and Felix Earnest died as Santa Fe prisoners. The district was twenty miles wide with no town in it. No source says who worked the gin or whose cotton it ginned. The site is on private land.

What the plaque says

Site of William Millican's Gin House First cotton gin in Jackson County. Here was held the memorable "Lavaca-Navidad Meeting" on July 17, 1835. At this meeting resolutions were adopted protesting against the treatment of the Texas colonists by the Mexican government. James Kerr was chairman of the meeting and S.C.A. Rogers, secretary. The first formal public protest was a forerunner of the Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 27 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• De León Plaza — 29 mi
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.

More markers nearby

• George Washington Carver School — 3.2 mi
• Famous Lavaca-Navidad Meeting of 1835 — 3.9 mi
• Brackenridge Cemetery — 3.9 mi
• Early Jackson County — 4.0 mi