Thomas Pratt

The brigade Pratt served in belonged to Thomas Jefferson Green, a North Carolinian who had attended West Point and sat in the Florida legislature. Green organized the Texas Land Company and came to Texas in 1836, then dropped the colonizing scheme to serve in the army. Commissioned a brigadier general, he went back to the United States to raise volunteers, money and ammunition. He was later second in command on the Mier expedition, escaped from Perote Prison, served in California's first senate and sponsored the bill creating the University of California.

What the plaque says

Thomas Pratt (1807-1878). Veteran of Army of Republic of Texas, he was Captain of 1st Regt., T. J. Green's Brigade, in 1836. In Civil War (1861-65), served in Texas Militia, Confederate Army. In private life, was farmer and rancher. Owned land in Coleman and Lampasas counties. His wife Susan (1795?-1878) was a member of first Anglo colony in Texas. A kindly man, Pratt left funds in his will to provide meat for "poor and reputable widows". (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 1.6 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Colorado Bend State Park — 17 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.
• Inks Lake State Park — 25 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 27 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.

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• James Jackson Beeman — steps away
• Garrison Greenwood — steps away