This Marker Faces the Site_Home of John Joseph Linn

John Joseph Linn's story starts with a rebellion. His father, a college professor, was branded a traitor for taking part in the Irish rising of 1798 and fled to New York, where the family settled at Poughkeepsie about 1800. Linn was apprenticed to a New York merchant in 1816 and started his own New Orleans business in 1822. He settled in Victoria in 1829 as a colonist of De Leon's grant and was known as Juan Linn. The 1860 census listed seven enslaved people as his. He died in 1885 in the house he had built fifty-six years earlier.

What the plaque says

This Marker Faces the Site_Home of John Joseph Linn This marker faces the site (across the street) of the home of John Joseph Linn. Merchant, soldier, statesman, historian. Born in Ireland, October 25, 1798. Last alcalde and first mayor of Victoria. Member of the General Council, Provisional Government of Texas, 1835. Member of the first Congress of Texas. Died here 1885. There members of the "New Orleans Greys" and the Alabama "Red Rovers" were entertained while on their way to Goliad to join Colonel Fannin's ill-fated command. There the women of Victoria moulded bullets for the Army. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• De León Plaza — steps away
  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.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 1.9 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.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 25 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Site of Round Top House — steps away
• Home of Empresario Martin De Leon — steps away
• In Memory of Edward Conrad — steps away
• Site of Victoria's First Church — steps away