Historical Marker

Lorenzo de Zavala

Marker installed: 1936

Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Vice president of the Republic of Texas. His plank-covered log house, the first in the municipality of Harrisburg. built in 1829, served as a hospital for the wounded after the Battle of San Jacinto. Here de Zavala died, November 15, 1836.

Erected by the State of Texas 1936.