​Fort Houston
​(Site One- Fourth Mile South) 

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Marker Text: A stockade and blockhouse of the Republic of Texas. Built in 1835-1836 to protect settlers who founded Houston, a pioneer town, now in Anderson County.
​     Friendly Indians would come to trade at the site, but wary settlers often slept inside the 25-foot-square blockhouse, built of heavy logs. Trappers bought supplies there and men from Houston formed one of the first Ranger units in Texas. The fort defended a large area of the frontier, 1836-1839, but it was abandoned about 1841. The site later became part of home of John H. Reagan, Texas Statesman. (1969) 

Marker No: 8753

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.739544,-95.656639

Location: Intersection of US 79 and FM 1990, 2 mi. south of Palestine, .25 mile north of Fort Houston on FM 1990 just past tracks