Marker Inscription
Archeology - Historic Non-Aboriginal, Politics/Government
Historic Place
Jones, George Washington, House
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About this site
Jones, George Washington, House is a historic place in Bastrop, Bastrop County, dedicated in 1978. It is one of 81 historic places documented in Bastrop County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 296 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.1021, -97.3114 near Bastrop. The nearest cataloged historic site is House at 311 Pecan St. (historic place), about 0.4 miles away. Others within a short drive include Farm House, Primera Baptist Church, and Alta Vista Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2078003335. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
This Bastrop house, near the corner of Fayette and Mill streets, was the home of George Washington Jones (1828–1903), a Bastrop lawyer who became the tenth lieutenant governor of Texas and later served in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Greenback congressman from 1879 to 1883. Jones settled in Bastrop in 1850, read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1851; he died in Bastrop and is buried in the city's Fairview Cemetery. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the 1978 Bastrop resources nomination.
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