Albert Holley House

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Marker Text: In 1857 Albert Holley (b. 1828), his mother and two brothers, migrated to Houston County from Alabama. While the others journeyed to Texas by boat, he brought the family's supplies overland by wagon with 137 slaves. By 1860 he and his wife Julia (Russell) (1840-97) had begun homesteading this land. After serving in the Civil War, where he was a prisoner of war, Albert continued to farm here. In 1867 he constructed a new home for his family at this site. He died in 1907, but his land remained in the ownership of Holley family members until 1976. (1983) 

Additional Plate: The Albert Holley House was relocated to Trinity County, about 3.8 miles south of this site in FM 2781, in 1994. 

Marker No. 11213

Aluminium 18 x 28 Subject Plate

Geographic: 31.197205, -95.257126

Location: 15 miles southeast of Crockett on US Hwy 287