Monuments
- Sherman, Texas, is the home of Austin College.
- Nacogdoches, Texas, is the home of Stephen F. Austin State University.
- Both Austin, Texas, and Austin County, Texas, are named after Stephen F. Austin. However, Austin (the city) is not located in Austin (the county). (Austin, Texas is located in Travis County).
- Angleton, Texas, features a statue of Austin, sponsored by The Stephen F. Austin 500 sculpted by David Addicks, similar in height to the statue of Sam Houston found in Huntsville, Texas.
- The National Statuary Hall Collection permits each state to select just two statues for display at the Capital in Washington, DC. Texas selected Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin; these statues were sculpted by German immigrant Elisabet Ney.
- Gulf Prairie Cemetery, his original place of burial.
- In 1959, Austin was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- In Austinville, Virginia, Austin's birthplace, a monument was erected along the New River near a junction with the New River Trail State Park.
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