Civil Rights advocate, legislator and attorney José Tomás Canales was born on a ranch in Nueces County to Andreas and Tomasa (Cavazos) Canales. As a young man, he moved to Kansas City, where he completed high school. In 1896, Canales began attending . . . — — Map (db m223565) HM
Born in London, England, to John and Ann Holbein, Reuben Holbein became one of Corpus Christi's early civic leaders with close ties to the King Ranch. In the 1840s, Reuben's father became an agent for Henry Kinney (1814-1862), recruiting families . . . — — Map (db m286722) HM
Friendship Monument
Linking the Cultures of
Spain • México • United States
In 1746, King Felipe V of Spain, concerned the French would try to claim and settle the Gulf Plains from the Nueces River to Tampico, . . . — — Map (db m118401) HM
Born in Philadelphia in 1817, Thomas S. Parker came to Texas at the age of twenty. In 1839 he and his parents William W. and Hannah Parker were awarded large land grants in the vicinity of present-day Corpus Christi; they used the land to raise . . . — — Map (db m31944) HM
After the death of their parents, Mary Nolan arrived in Corpus Christi in 1845 at the age of sixteen along with her two brothers, Matt, eleven, and Tom, nine. Mary became a nurse in the United States Army, allowing Matt to serve as a bugler and Tom . . . — — Map (db m182944) HM
Born in Littleton, Massachusetts, in 1796, John Dix played a significant role in American and state history. As a teenager, he served aboard a privateer during the War of 1812. He was engaged in capturing the English brig Don Dossack, which . . . — — Map (db m182938) HM
The hanging of two Confederate Army deserters at Corpus Christi in May of 1862 was the only military execution to take place in Nueces County during the Civil War. At that time, the Texas coast from Matagorda to Corpus Christi was blockaded by the . . . — — Map (db m182928) HM
The Bohemian Land Colony, a vision of Stanley L. Kostoryz, changed the landscape of the Coastal Bend and drew residents from all over the U.S. and Czechoslovakia to south Texas. Stanislav L. Kostohryz was born in 1866 in Strakonice, Bohemia. In . . . — — Map (db m288588) HM
Appointed in 1764 by the governor of the Spanish colony of Nuevo Santander, Captain Blas Maria de la Garza Falcon (1712-1767) established an outpost and way station (8 miles east), the first in present-day Nueces County. He was commissioned to . . . — — Map (db m166445) HM
Mississippi native J. W. McGill and his wife Lydia (Abell) reared two sons, James Claude (1873-1935) and H. Frank (1883-1952). The McGill brothers attended school in Flatonia, Fayette County, Texas.
In 1904 Claude McGill established small . . . — — Map (db m180626) HM
On December 23, 1863, Capt. James Speed of General Napoleon J.T. Dana's Brownsville-based Federal Army force raided unguarded King Ranch. Objectives: to capture or kill Captain Richard King and destroy the Confederate cotton trade. King, . . . — — Map (db m165582) HM
This burial ground has served Alice-area residents for more than 100 years, and the story of its genesis and ongoing use involves many individuals in the community’s history.
By the late 1880s, Frederic B. Nayer lived in this area, then part of . . . — — Map (db m193560) HM
The Ranchero was a newspaper published in Corpus Christi and elsewhere in south Texas during and after the Civil War. The publication’s editors were ardent supporters of the Confederacy and they later used the newspaper to express their . . . — — Map (db m211721) HM
In the 1880s, when the lines of the Corpus Christi, San Diego, & Rio Grande and the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railroads intersected, a new townsite was platted at the junction in what was then Nueces County. First called Bandana and then Kleberg, . . . — — Map (db m193564) HM
Since 1848, smuggling, rustling and armed incursions by people on both sides of the Rio Grande were common. When the Mexican Revolution began, fear of violent attacks escalated. After Pancho Villa's raid in New Mexico on March 9, 1916, . . . — — Map (db m205729) HM
Martha Reagan moved with her parents from Tennessee to Fayette County, Texas where she met and married John Rabb (1825-1872). In 1857, John and Martha moved their family to Nueces County and settled near Banquete, where John pursued cattle ranching . . . — — Map (db m270058) HM
A major cotton producing district of Texas during the early twentieth century, Nueces County saw many migrant workers come through towns like Robstown for work in cotton and vegetable farms. Robstown Labor Camp was completed in 1940 as one of . . . — — Map (db m210840) HM
German native Anton Felix Hans Hellmuth von Blucher (1819-1879) came to the United States in 1844, arriving in New Orleans. The following year he moved to Texas and joined the German settlers at New Braunfels. Trained in engineering, languages, . . . — — Map (db m206894) HM
Travis Baptist Church in 1911, residents of the rural southwest Nueces County farming community of London formed the London Baptist Church. The congregation included forty charter members and services were first held in the community’s school, . . . — — Map (db m211958) HM
The Corpus Christi Gold Star Court of Honor pays tribute to the mothers of the servicemen of Nueces County killed during World War I (1914-1918). Incorporated into the existing Spohn Park, part of the Broadway Bluff improvements completed in . . . — — Map (db m118391) HM WM
The Centennial Memorial Museum was built as part of a statewide commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Texas Independence. In 1935, the Centennial Advisory Board of Nueces County discussed plans for the centennial. Original plans centered on . . . — — Map (db m205827) HM
Born in Devonshire, England, on December 4, 1842, to William and Hannah Downing, James Downing immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, in about 1850 with his family. On March 6, 1862, James enlisted for three years in the First Massachusetts Heavy . . . — — Map (db m201979) HM
Born in 1821, in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, John Bernard Murphy immigrated to the United States in 1845. Upon arriving in New Orleans, Murphy joined the United States Army as a staff reporter under General Zachary Taylor at the onset of war . . . — — Map (db m207910) HM
An organization vital to the preservation of the area's rich heritage, the Moravian Club of Nueces County first formed to build and maintain a meeting hall for the many settlers of Czech descent, primarily Moravian, who migrated to southwestern . . . — — Map (db m208084) HM
Chemist, geologist, and photographer William DeRyee was born as William Düry in Würzburg, Bavaria. He was educated at the gymnasium and lateinschule in Würzburg, then went on to study at the University of Munich. He participated in the 1848 uprising . . . — — Map (db m182940) HM
The rural Nueces County settlement of Calallen was established by the Calvin Townsite Company on August 18, 1910. The president of the firm was the prominent local cattlemen Calvin J. Allen (1859-1922), for whom the town was named. The area's . . . — — Map (db m269726) HM
Duty – Honor – Country The United Vietnam Veterans of Texas Do immortalize in granite, the hearts and souls of the American people, so that no one will ever forget them Corpus Christi Alaniz, Paul G. Jr. - USMC • Alvarez, Ignacio Jr. – . . . — — Map (db m295373) HM WM
Robert Ainsworth Mercer (1799-1875) arrived on Mustang Island ca. 1855. After starting a small settlement, Mercer was appointed Nueces County's Wreck Master, with oversight of the disposition of vessels lost crossing Aransas Pass. His sons, John . . . — — Map (db m182891) HM
Formed from Nueces County
Created February 10, 1848
Organized August 7, 1848
Named for Dr. James Harper Starr
1809 – 1890
Pioneer Texas surgeon and Indian fighter
Located at Nacogdoches in 1837
Secretary of the Treasury
of the . . . — — Map (db m117573) HM
Charlotte Scott (Mrs. Edward D.) Sidbury (1830-1904), the builder of this house, was born in North Carolina and came with her parents to Sterling Robertson's colony before the Texas Revolution (1836). She married John Wesley Scott in 1848; they . . . — — Map (db m33573) HM
The Corpus Christi Independent School District hired Miss Rose Dunne to teach English and academics to the city's Mexican American students in a year-long experimental program in 1896. Miss Dunne and her pupils were so successful that in 1901 the . . . — — Map (db m118075) HM
The Robstown Record began serving the Robstown community and surrounding areas in 1919, when M.L. Dale and his wife, Myrtle, began to print the paper. At the time, Robstown did not have a newspaper; the community's first new periodical, . . . — — Map (db m118053) HM
Formed from Nueces County,
Created March 11, 1911,
Organized May 6, 1911,
Named for Judge James B. Wells,
an able lawyer,
Born near Aransas Pass, Texas,
July 12, 1854,
Died at Brownsville
December 21, 1923
Alice, the . . . — — Map (db m193562) HM
A soldier, colonist, Indian fighter, and explorer, Captain Enrique Villarreal at one time held title to most of the land that now constitutes Nueces County. The Rincón del Oso land grant, encompassing approximately 44,000 acres, was awarded to . . . — — Map (db m118088) HM
Known as the founder of Corpus Christi, Pennsylvania native Henry Lawrence Kinney (1814-1861) was trained to become a merchant by his father, Simon Kinney. He helped lay out the town of Peru, Illinois, and eventually made his way to this part of . . . — — Map (db m118498) HM
In 1853 lawlessness in Nueces County, which covered most of the area from Corpus Christi to the Mexican border, prompted the construction of the first county courthouse on this block. Three lots were purchased for $300 from Corpus Christi founder, . . . — — Map (db m290754) HM
The 155 mm cannons had a maximum range of about 11 miles which is probably about the greatest distance a surfaced U-boat could be seen from spotting towers located in the dunes. Azimuths from two spotting towers could be used to graphically located . . . — — Map (db m250715) HM
Formed from Nueces County
Created January 28, 1848
Organized March 16, 1848
Named in honor of
James Webb, 1792-1856
Attorney General and Secretary
of State of The Republic of Texas
1838-1841
Laredo, the County Seat
Founded in . . . — — Map (db m241026) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
