Strode-Pritchett Log Cabin

The cabin stands at Davy Crockett Spring Park, where a fountain marks the spring from which Crockett is said to have drunk on his way to San Antonio. The county's TXGenWeb page says a mural by local artist Lucas Short shows Crockett meeting Andrew Gossett in late 1835. The Gossetts named the county seat for Elijah Gossett's boyhood friend David Crockett of Rutherford County, Tennessee. Renovations added a fence of logs like those pioneers used and a display of six flags around the spring.

What the plaque says

Strode-Pritchett Log Cabin This log cabin was constructed on the Jeremiah Strode League (12 mi. E). It is believed to have been built in the 1850s by B.R. Wallace (1800-73), Strode's son-in-law and a Texas legislator, or by Wallace's cousin W.W. Wallace (b. 1821). Later additions covered the cabin and by 1950, when the land was sold to W.S. and Fannie Pritchett, no traces were visible. Used for hay storage until 1973 when it was exposed, the cabin was given to the Houston County Historical Commission, who had it moved here and restored as part of the American Bicentennial and annual county birthday activities. (1982)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 27 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.

More markers nearby

• Miller-Spinks-Mayes Property — steps away
• Five Courthouses of Houston County — steps away
• Crockett — 0.2 mi
• First National Bank of Crockett — 0.2 mi