{"id":195,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:32:48","latitude":30.8634780000000006339178071357309818267822265625,"longitude":-95.3472960000000284708221442997455596923828125,"title":"Thomas Plantation and Steamboat Landing","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://easttexashistory.org/files/fullsize/a3307d3db6b0b99d5960803a421168f7.jpg","address":"","all_locations":[],"zoom":8,"creator":["Texas Historical Marker"],"description":"John Richard Thomas (1820-63) of Alabama came to Texas in 1854.  Developing a 1060-acre plantation, he built wharves here on the Trinity for shipping his cotton, corn, molasses, and other goods.  Thomas' Landing was a regular port of call, giving riverboats considerable business.  The Civil War (1861-65) and Thomas' death brought adversity to his people.  After 1872, when a railroad was built into Walker County, river shipping ceased.  The landing, the plantation "big house" and other buildings once stood near the site now retaining the cemetery.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://easttexashistory.org/files/fullsize/a3307d3db6b0b99d5960803a421168f7.jpg":{"id":1738,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"thomas-plantation.jpg","description":"","thumbnail":"https://easttexashistory.org/files/square_thumbnails/a3307d3db6b0b99d5960803a421168f7.jpg"}}}