Warren D. C. Hall

Warren Hall left the Gutierrez-Magee army in 1813, resigning his captaincy to protest the killing of royalist prisoners after Alazan Heights. In Texas he raised sugar at China Grove Plantation south of Houston, where the 1840 tax rolls show him holding more than 17,000 acres and ninety enslaved people. Debts forced him to sell it to Albert Sidney Johnston in 1843. By 1853 he lived on west Galveston Island in a house called Three Trees, where he ran a ferry to Velasco. The Handbook gives his birth as 1794 in South Carolina, not 1788 in North Carolina.

What the plaque says

Warren D. C. Hall (1788 - April 8, 1867) North Carolina native Warren DeWitt Clinton Hall was an early immigrant to Texas who took part in several military expeditions against Spain and Mexico. He served as acting secretary of war for the Republic of Texas at the time of the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836. A successful attorney and active supporter of Masonic activities, Hall lived in Galveston from 1842 until his death in 1867. Hall County in the Texas Panhandle is named in his honor. (1993)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Moody Mansion — 1.0 mi
  A four-story, 28,000-square-foot house on Broadway, finished in 1895, that W. L. Moody Jr. bought just after the 1900 storm and his family kept until Hurricane Alicia in 1983.
• 1859 Ashton Villa — 1.2 mi
  A brick Italianate house on Broadway, built with enslaved labor in 1859, whose lawn has held Galveston's Juneteenth commemoration of General Orders, No. 3 every year since 1979.
• The Strand — 1.4 mi
  Five blocks of iron-front brick buildings near the harbor that were once called the Wall Street of the Southwest, emptied after 1900 and brought back by preservationists from the 1960s.
• Galveston Seawall and the 1900 Storm — 1.5 mi
  The concrete wall along the Gulf that Galveston built after the hurricane of September 8, 1900, which killed between 6,000 and 8,000 people in a city of 38,000.

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• Lent Munson Hitchcock — steps away
• Captain William S. Fisher — steps away
• Major John M. Allen — steps away