General Land Office

Historical marker location:

Austin, Texas

( E. 11th St.)

Marker installed: 1936

General Land Office of the State of Texas, 1856-1918. Now dedicated by the state to the uses and purposes of the Daughters of the Republic and the Texas Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Here O. Henry worked from January, 1887 to January, 1891.

The state of Texas was once an independent country known as the Republic of Texas. It gained independence from Mexico in 1836 and was a separate nation until it was annexed by the United States in 1845.