Historical Marker
Austin Street Mercantile
Historical marker location:
107 W. Austin Street, Jefferson, Texas
( Austin St., across from Courthouse)
Marker installed: 1970
Building. Typical of city's heyday as greatest inland port in southwest. Erected before 1866. Housed offices, grocery, saloon, drugstore.
A famous owner was Sallie Harrison, given this building (1882) on her marriage to C. A. Culberson, later to become governor and U. S. Senator.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1970.