Historical Marker
The Faison House
Historical marker location:
822 S. Jefferson St., La Grange, Texas
( 822 S. Jefferson St., La Grange.)
Marker installed: 1962
Started 1841 as two rooms of local pine wood. Acquired 1855 and enlarged by S. S. Munger.
Owned 1866-1961 by estate of N. W. Faison (1817-70), who joined 1842 Dawson expedition resisting Mexican invaders. Captured near San Antonio when many Dawson men were massacred, Faison was later pardoned by Santa Anna. While serving 1843-56 as county clerk, he worked to return bones of his slain comrades for burial on Monument Hill in 1848.