Sam Houston Spoke Here

Historical marker location:

Courthouse lawn, Gilmer, Texas

( Henderson at Marshall St. Reported missing Jan. 2006.)

Marker installed: 1964

On this Cherokee Trace site he had visited 25 years earlier, when he lived with the Indians, Sam Houston twice spoke as the leading Texas statesman-- on June 10, 1857, as U. S. Senator, and early in 1861 as governor.

At both times he spoke against secession and in favor of the Union.