Daily Blog: Huntsville--A Hero's Home

Sam Houston holds the distinction of being the only man to serve as governor of two states--Tennessee and Texas.

But there is one town he considered his home--and Huntsville, Texas built a 67-foot statue of Sam Houston on Interstate 45 to confirm that connection.

For anyone interested in the story of Sam Houston, a visit to Huntsville (population 35, 078) would include:

• The Sam Houston Memorial Museum -- "home to the largest collection of Houston artifacts anywhere."
• "Houston's beloved Woodland Home, where he lived with his wife, Margaret Lea Houston, and most of his eight children."
• "Oakwood Cemetery,where an impressive marble monument of the hero on horseback replaced a simple gravestone in 1911."

Read Karen Hastings' story on Huntsville in Texas Highways, August 2009, p. 32.