Mrs. Sam Houston House, Farm Road 390, Independence, Washington County, TX

There are oversize field notes for this survey at P&P. oell
2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place
Significance: The house faces the Spanish La Bahia Road on a corner lot in the town platted in 1835. With the success of cotton plantations, and the foundation of Baylor University in 1845, Independence became one of the wealthiest communities in Texas. ... Sam Houston, the first President of the Republic of Texas, has a farm at Cedar Point, near Galveston, and homes in Huntsville and Independence. After his death in 1863 his widow, Margaret Lea, reportedly moved to this house with seven of her eight children. A deed of purchase from James L. Farquhar is dated February 1866. Mrs. Houston died of yellow fever in December 1867. Her daughter, Maggie, lived in the house until 1898, when it was sold to the Williams family, who remained until 1983.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N970
Survey number: HABS TX-264
Building/structure dates: after 1830 Initial Construction