Where's George? - Texas Governor Series LbNA #28515 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Boots Tex  |
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| Plant date: | Jan 29, 2007 |
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| City: | Point Blank |
| County: | San Jacinto |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Gryzzled Gryphon |
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| Last found: | Apr 30, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Jan 29, 2007 |
George T. Wood was the second governor of Texas. “Where’s George?”, you may ask, or even “Who’s George?”. George Tyler (or Thomas) Wood, the original George Dubya, was born March 12, 1795, in Georgia. There is some disagreement on his middle name. The monument at his grave gives it as Tyler, So we’ll go with that. Wood was a veteran of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend at nineteen and served in the Georgia state assembly. In 1839, he brought his family to Texas where he settled a plantation along the Trinity River at Point Blank. He served in the Sixth Congress (1841) and the Annexation Convention of 1845. He resigned his seat in the state senate to become a regimental colonel in the Mexican War. Considered by his men to be a hero at the Battle of Monterrey, he was slighted by his superior officer, General James Pinckney Henderson, who also happened to be the sitting governor of Texas. The incident may have been decisive in Wood’s election as governor in 1847. Wood County was named for him, as was Woodville, in Tyler County. Issues in his administration included increased defense of the frontier against Indians, payment of the large public debt and the New Mexico border dispute. He was a confidant of Sam Houston and it is said that he was defeated in his bid for reelection by the anti-Houston faction. He died in 1858. George is buried in the Robinson Cemetery at Point Blank, Texas.
Directions:
Take Highway 190 from either Livingston or Huntsville to Point Blank. Turn south at the Exxon station near the junction with highway 156. The post office will be on your right after you turn. At the stop sign, turn left and head for the flashing yellow light. There will be a sign that says “Governor Wood Monument”. Go through the light and you will see another sign that tells you to bear right. When you get to the Point Blank Community Church there will be two large gates and a memorial marker between the two. Read the inscription on the marker. If the gates are locked, you may park and go through the walk gate, then make your way up the parking lot to the cemetery. Go through the gate of the small cemetery to see the monument to Governor Wood.
To the box::
Walk out of the cemetery and you will notice two parking lots separated by median forming a wall of trees. Near the end of the median closest to the cemetery, and closest to you, is a light post. Look to it’s base. That’s where you’ll find George. The post is not obvious among the tree trunks. Look up about 10 feet for the greenish light fixture.
Directions:
Take Highway 190 from either Livingston or Huntsville to Point Blank. Turn south at the Exxon station near the junction with highway 156. The post office will be on your right after you turn. At the stop sign, turn left and head for the flashing yellow light. There will be a sign that says “Governor Wood Monument”. Go through the light and you will see another sign that tells you to bear right. When you get to the Point Blank Community Church there will be two large gates and a memorial marker between the two. Read the inscription on the marker. If the gates are locked, you may park and go through the walk gate, then make your way up the parking lot to the cemetery. Go through the gate of the small cemetery to see the monument to Governor Wood.
To the box::
Walk out of the cemetery and you will notice two parking lots separated by median forming a wall of trees. Near the end of the median closest to the cemetery, and closest to you, is a light post. Look to it’s base. That’s where you’ll find George. The post is not obvious among the tree trunks. Look up about 10 feet for the greenish light fixture.