Travis County

Travis grew up near the Red Bank Baptist Church in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and in 1818 moved with his family to Conecuh County, Alabama, where they helped found Sparta and Evergreen. He trained in law under James Dellet, Claiborne's leading attorney, and on October 26, 1828, married Rosanna Cato, a former pupil. In Claiborne he published a newspaper, joined the Masons and served as a militia adjutant. Within a year he left his wife, son and unborn daughter for Texas, arriving early in 1831 after the Law of April 6, 1830, made his immigration illegal.

What the plaque says

Travis County Created January 25, 1840 Organized April 8 1843 Named in honor of William Barrett Travis Born in Edgefield District, South Carolina, August 1, 1809. Came to Texas in 1831, Commander at the Alamo, where he was killed March 6, 1836. Austin, the County Seat, selected as the capital of the Republic of Texas in 1839 and by a vote of the people in 1850 made the permanent Capital of the State of Texas. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barton Springs Pool — 0.8 mi
  A three-acre pool in the bed of Barton Creek, fed by the fourth-largest spring in Texas at 68 to 70 degrees, and shared with an endangered salamander found almost nowhere else.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.8 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.
• Harry Ransom Center — 1.9 mi
  The University of Texas archive where a Gutenberg Bible and the earliest surviving camera photograph are always on view, free, beside the papers of Watergate and the movies.
• Bullock Texas State History Museum — 1.9 mi
  The state's history museum at the head of Congress Avenue, built around the hull of La Salle's ship La Belle, raised from Matagorda Bay with 1.8 million artifacts.

More markers nearby

• Swedes of Texas — 0.4 mi
• Clarksville — 0.7 mi
• Barton Springs — 0.7 mi
• Judge Calvin M. Cureton — 1.1 mi