For your convenience, there are corresponding numbers and a map on the back of the Prison Driving Tour brochure. The cemetery is the final resting place for many people of historical prominence, including General Sam Houston, Henderson Yoakum and eight Union Soldiers. This main building of the museum houses the largest collection of General Sam Houston's artifacts and is located on fifteen acres of Houston's original one hundred and seventy-four acre homestead that he purchased in 1847. Two of his homes are situated here near the spring which feeds a small pond. The museum ws begun in 1936 during the centennial celebration of Texas Independence.
Admission is free to the public.
Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except Monday. His family lived here until 1858 when Sam Houston was elected Governor of Texas. The log building adjacent to the home served as Houston's law office. After a short term as the Governor of Texas, Sam Houston was deposed in 1861 after refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. He returned to Huntsville from Austin and leased this home in 1862.