Home of Peter Ellis Bean

Historical marker location:

CR 302 (Upper Melrose Road), Nacogdoches, Texas

( CR 302 at CR 305)

Marker installed: 1936

(1783-1846)

A member of Nolan's Expedition in 1800

Captured and imprisoned in Mexico

Soldier in the Mexican struggle for Independence

Commandant at Fort Teran, 1831; Nacogdoches, 1832- 1835

Erected in 1829 in the vicinity of a sawmill owned by Bean

Erected by the State of Texas

1936.