Texan Army Crossing of Buffalo Bayou (San Jacinto)

The plaque stops at the crossing. On the morning of April 19 Houston wrote to Henry Raguet, "It is the only chance for saving Texas." Private Ellis Benson remembered crossing to the side the enemy held, then marching into the night with nothing to eat in cool, misty weather. At dawn on April 20 the army moved down the bayou and at Lynch's Ferry took a boat loaded with supplies for Santa Anna. That afternoon Sidney Sherman's cavalry skirmished with Mexican infantry, and Olwyn J. Trask had his thigh broken; he died at Galveston about three weeks later.

What the plaque says

Texan Army Crossing of Buffalo Bayou (San Jacinto) 3000 ft. north at this site the Texas army under command of General Sam Houston crossed Buffalo Bayou on April 19, 1836 on a raft built from Isaac Batterson's house and began the march which terminated with the victory at San Jacinto April 21, 1836.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emancipation Park — 7.9 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 8.6 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 8.8 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — 9.2 mi
  The oldest art museum in Texas, grown from a 1900 schoolroom art league into a campus of Watkin, Mies van der Rohe and later buildings, with Ima Hogg's Bayou Bend up the bayou.

More markers nearby

• Allen Ranch — 1.1 mi
• Crown Hill Cemetery — 1.3 mi
• Near Site of Isaac Batterson Home — 1.6 mi
• City of Pasadena — 1.7 mi