Marker
Title:
Site
of
the
Home
of
Josiah
Hughes
Bell
County:
Brazoria
City:
West
Columbia
Marker
Location:
off
SH
36,
.5
mi.
south
of
West
Columbia,
next
to
Loggins
Vet
Clinic
Marker
Text:
(1791-1838)
One
of
the
"Old
Three
Hundred"
who
came
to
Texas
with
Stephen
F.
Austin
in
1821.
First
alcalde
of
Austin's
colony.
On
this
tract
of
6,642
acres,
granted
him
in
1824,
was
later
built
the
town
of
Columbia,
first
capital
of
the
Republic.
  
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September 19, 2006
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