Old Oakland Plantation

Historical marker location:

Freeport vicinity, Texas

( 9 miles north of Freeport on SH 36, where private road intersects highway)

Marker installed: 1965

Founded 1828 by Henry Wm. Munson, who bought site from Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas. This land joined Peach Point Plantation, Austin's home.

Munson, one of Texans in uprising over injustices at Anahuac and Velasco in 1832, died in yellow fever epidemic in 1833. (1965).

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