Thomas Henry Borden
Galveston, Galveston County, Texas
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Site of the home of Thomas Henry Borden one of the "Old Three Hundred" of Austin's colonies. Surveyed the town of Galveston. Editor and one of the founders in 1835 of the "Telegraph and Texas Register. Born in Norwich, New York, January 28, 1804;died in Galveston, Texas March 17, 1877.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Thomas Henry Borden was one of Austin's 'Old Three Hundred,' the first legal Anglo-American colonists of Texas. A surveyor, he laid out the town of Galveston, and in 1835 he helped found the Telegraph and Texas Register, the newspaper that chronicled the Texas Revolution. A New York native, he lived in Galveston until his death in 1877.
Why it matters
As colonist, surveyor, and newspaper founder, Borden helped map and give voice to early Texas, and his press became a primary record of the Revolution.
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