Digging Up San Jacinto

All that’s left now is an old cistern sitting in a pasture where cows graze-a tree growing out of it, standing as the only sentinel to this place that holds such a cherished spot in Texas history. We’re some 50 miles northwest of Houston, which wasn’t even there when this Bernardo Plantation became the birthplace of Texas liberty—the staging area for Gen. Sam Houston’s troops before the history-changing Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. Since the summer of 2009, archaeologist