Historical Marker
Site of the Home of Josiah Hughes Bell
Historical marker location:
West Columbia, Texas
( off SH 36, .5 mi. south of West Columbia, next to Loggins Vet Clinic)
Marker installed: 1936
(1791-1838)
One of the "Old Three Hundred" who came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin in 1821. First alcalde of Austin's colony. On this tract of 6,642 acres, granted him in 1824, was later built the town of Columbia, first capital of the Republic.