Historical Marker
Camp of Stephen F. Austin
Historical marker location:
2336 Rigsby Avenue, San Antonio, Texas
( US 87/Rigsby Avenue, south side between Salado Creek Greenway and Schrader Road at entrance to Covington and Comanche parks)
Marker installed: 1936
Site of the camp of Stephen F. Austin (October 20-226, 1835) while assembling troops preparatory to the attack on the Mexican garrison at San Antonio. After his appointment on November 12 as Commissioner to the United States, the Texans, under Colonels Ben Milam and Frank W. Johnson stormed and captured San Antonio, December 10, 1835. (1936).