Program on surveying for ‘Old 300’ set Aug. 29 at Fayette Museum & Archives
Detail from an 1840 map of Fayette County drawn by W. H. Sandusky that includes the S. Castleman half league. The original map is in Austin at the Texas General Land Office.
HENRY MAYO
The very first land grant surveyed in Stephen F. Austin’s Colony was the Sylvanus Castleman half league (2,214 acres) just a few miles from La Grange. In August 1823, even before the town of San Felipe was surveyed, Seth Ingram was sent to survey land on which Castleman already lived, keep good field notes, and return to prove to Austin and the Baron de Bastrop that he knew how to survey land, par…
