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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Matagorda County, Texas
Adjacent to Matagorda County, Texas
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| On 5th Street at Avenue H, on the right when traveling east on 5th Street. |
| | Organized in 1912, the Bay City Public Library was first housed in the J. P. Keller Insurance Company office. The non-profit Bay City Library Association, also formed in 1912, spearheaded community fund raising efforts to operate the library. Land . . . — — Map (db m120755) HM |
| On 7th Street (State Highway 35) at Avenue F (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling east on 7th Street. |
| | An election in the fall of 1894 resulted in the relocation of the Matagorda county seat from the city of Matagorda to Bay Prairie (now Bay City). D.P. Moore, the postmaster at the nearby small town of Elliott, owned property in the new town and . . . — — Map (db m96314) HM |
| On State Highway 35 at Nile Valley Road, on the right when traveling west on State Highway 35. |
| | During the early days of Anglo-American colonization in Texas, the Matagorda Bay Prairie area was an important route for people traveling between settlements. A convenient river crossing was a necessity, and a ferry was established on the Thomas . . . — — Map (db m89332) HM |
| On Avenue F (State Highway 60) south of 7th Street (State Highway 35), on the right when traveling north. |
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Born in Vermont. Came to Texas in 1824. Worked to establish the Republic. Represented Matagorda in the First Congress of the Republic where he served as speaker, Oct. 1836 to April 1837. At his death in Sept. 1837 left . . . — — Map (db m117462) HM |
| On 7th Street (State Highway 35) west of Avenue G, on the right when traveling east. |
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| On 7th Street (State Highway 35) east of Avenue F (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling east. |
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Early home of the Karankawa Indians. Landing place of LaSalle in 1685. Settled 1822-1836 by colonists of Stephen F. Austin. The municipality of Matagorda organized under the Mexican Government on March 6, 1834. Became on March 17, 1836, Matagorda . . . — — Map (db m120752) HM |
| On 6th Street east of Avenue F (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling west. |
| | 1861-1865
To the memory of
our
Confederate
Soldiers.
"Lest We Forget." — — Map (db m120757) WM |
| On 6th Street at Avenue F (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling west on 6th Street. |
| | Near the mouth of the Colorado River, 20 miles to the south, is the town of Matagorda, the second most important port of entry in early Texas. In the Civil War, center for rich farmlands and one of 8 Texas ports that blockade runners used for . . . — — Map (db m120750) HM |
| On 7th Street (State Highway 35) at Avenue F (State Highway 60), on the right when traveling west on 7th Street. |
| | Established 1898, four years after founding of Bay City. Private bank. Owners: Henry Rugeley, Frank Hawkins. This building erected 1903, site of many investment transactions important to Texas Gulf Coast development.
Recorded Texas . . . — — Map (db m120754) HM |
| On Avenue F (State Highway 60) south of 7th Street (State Highway 35), on the right when traveling south. |
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Sugar cane mills were used to make syrup from the sweet sorghum cane that grew extensively along Caney Creek in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Once the cane was stripped, topped, and cut, it was hand-fed into one side of the mill. A . . . — — Map (db m118408) HM |
| On Avenue B (Farm to Market Road 616) west of Avenue A, on the right when traveling west. |
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In the first years of the 20th century, Jonathan Pierce filed a deed with the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad (Southern Pacific) to lay out a town along the rail line at the junction of two major roads. He named the community . . . — — Map (db m118424) HM |
| On State Highway 35 at Hawley Cemetery Road (County Highway 437), on the right when traveling south on State Highway 35. |
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Known 1838-1899 as Deming's Bridge Cemetery. Second post office in Matagorda County was located nearby in 1858.
Two acres donated by Emelius Savage and his son Norman for the cemetery and Tres Palacios Baptist Church, founded 1852. More . . . — — Map (db m118415) HM |
| On Farm to Market Road 1468 at County Road 418, on the left when traveling east on Road 1468. |
| | Originally part of land granted to early colonist Henry Parker, this was a rural farming and ranching area until 1908 when F.J. Hardy discovered oil and formed the Hardy Oil Company. By 1911, F.J. Clemenger had settled in the community, then known . . . — — Map (db m120739) HM |
| On Broadway (Farm to Market Road 1468) south of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
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In 1920, near Clemville, Texas, J.S. Abercrombie Mineral Company put this pumping rig into operation on a new oil well at a location west of present El Dorado Road. In 1927 the well went dry, and the pumping rig was not used again.
In 1980 . . . — — Map (db m119460) HM |
| On South Gulf Road at Matagorda Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling east on South Gulf Road. |
| | Georgia native Albert Clinton Horton came to Texas in 1834 from Alabama, where he had served in the state legislature. He established a plantation along Caney Creek in present Wharton County. In 1835, he returned to Alabama to recruit volunteers . . . — — Map (db m158655) HM |
| On South Gulf Road 2.5 miles east of Matagorda Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Here in 1826, a Company of volunteers commanded by Captain Aylett C. Buckner almost exterminated a band of Karankawa Indians who had murdered several families on Lower Caney Erected by the State of Texas — — Map (db m158690) HM |
| On Cypress Street at Lewis Street, on the left when traveling south on Cypress Street. |
| | First Episcopal Church in Texas Organized January 27, 1839 The Rev. Caleb S. Ives, Rector Building consecrated February 25, 1844 by the Rt. Rev. Leonides Polk, D. D., Bishop of Louisiana Diocese of Texas established January 1, 1849 . . . — — Map (db m158768) HM |
| On Cypress Street at Lewis Street, on the left when traveling south on Cypress Street. |
| | This parish, the oldest Episcopal Church in Texas, traces its history to 1838. The year the Rev. Caleb S. Ives was appointed Missionary to the Republic of Texas. The first service was held on Christmas Day, and the Congregation was formally . . . — — Map (db m158772) HM |
| On Cypress Street at Lewis Street, on the left when traveling south on Cypress Street. |
| | Projected site of a town in 1826 Founded in 1829 with Stephen F. Austin, Elias R. Wightman, Hosea H. League and Ira Ingram as proprietors Third largest town in Texas in 1834 Incorporated January 28, 1839 County Seat of Matagorda County, . . . — — Map (db m158766) HM |
| On Fisher Street at Laurel Street, on the left when traveling west on Fisher Street. |
| | Built by Texas Gulf Sulphur Company Gulf, Texas, Located 5 miles East of this park. Soon after the school began, a much larger brick building was built. Students from Wadsworth and Matagorda came by bus to join the Gulf residents. The school . . . — — Map (db m158733) HM |
| On Catalpa Street at Fisher Street (State Highway 60), on the left when traveling south on Catalpa Street. |
| | Has withstood many hurricanes. A cultural, social, political center. Home of: A.C. Horton, 1st Lieutenant - Governor of Texas and Governor 7 months; Rev. Caleb Ives, 1st Rector of 1st Episcopal Church in Texas; W. L. Sartwell, partner in Ives - . . . — — Map (db m158794) HM |
| Near South Gulf Road 0.1 miles east of Matagorda Cemetery Road. |
| | Dutch immigrant Albert Moses Levy came to the United States in 1818. After graduation from Medical School in 1882, he practiced medicine in Richmond, Virginia, until about 1835, when he left for New Orleans. In the service of the New Orleans . . . — — Map (db m158681) HM |
| On Fisher Street at Laurel Street, on the left when traveling west on Fisher Street. |
| | Industry that moved goods to build, sustain distant settlements in 18th-19th century Texas. Teamsters defied Indians, Bandits, and Texas weather to supply outlying forts and inland towns, which suffered if imports from the Gulf Coast, U. S. or . . . — — Map (db m158738) HM |
| Near Matagorda Cemetery Road 0.1 miles north of South Gulf Road. Reported damaged. |
| | Benjamin Wightman (Aug. 31, 1755 - Aug. 1, 1830) Esther Randall Wightman (Dec. 4, 1758 - June 20, 1880) Parents of Elias R. Wightman, Grantee of the Matagorda Town League, from Republic of Mexico. Benjamin and Esther Wightman, natives of . . . — — Map (db m158617) HM |
| On Saint Mary Street at Matagorda Street, on the left when traveling south on Saint Mary Street. |
| | Samuel Rhoads Fisher (1794 - 1839), early Texas colonist. Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and Secretary of the Republic of Texas Navy, had this house built for his family in 1832. His widow, Ann, continued to reside here until . . . — — Map (db m158729) HM |
| On Laurel Street at Fisher Street, on the right when traveling south on Laurel Street. |
| | The Market was built by Stewart Savage in the early 1900s. (It is known to have been built prior to 1915 because during that year a Mr. Ginetes was "laid out" in the building after going on a shooting spree and then taking his own life.) It was . . . — — Map (db m158755) HM |
| Near Matagorda Cemetery Road 0.1 miles south of State Highway 60. |
| | This mound, long thought to be a 19th century mass grave, was the subject of a study by the Center of Ecological Archaeology at Texas A&M University in the spring of 2001. Instead of a mass grave, it was found to contain six individual graves: a . . . — — Map (db m158606) HM |
| Near Matagorda Cemetery Road at State Highway 60. |
| | Hannah was a slave who lived in Matagorda in the 1800's. She was owned by the Hodges family. She was a devoted servant and excellent seamstress. She later worked for Lilly Bruce Culver. A memorial window in the present Methodist Church in Matagorda . . . — — Map (db m158685) HM |
| On South Gulf Road 0.1 miles east of Matagorda Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | First Alcalde of Matagorda Municipality, 1834 Member of the Congress of the Republic and First Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1836 Pioneer Patron of Public Schools Born in Vermont August 18, 1788 Died September 22, 1837 . . . — — Map (db m158670) HM |
| On South Gulf Road 0.1 miles east of Matagorda Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Commander of the Texans at the capture of Goliad, October 9,
1835 Born in Mississippi Died April 18, 1866 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 — — Map (db m158674) HM |
| On Matagorda Cemetery Road 0.1 miles north of South Gulf Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | One of earliest cemeteries in Texas. Founded soon after town was settled, about 1829, as part of Stephen F. Austin's colony. Marked graves numbered 650 in 1969, but interments exceed 1,000. Inscriptions on stones chronicle frontier hardships. . . . — — Map (db m158608) HM |
| On Matagorda Cemetery Road 0.1 miles south of State Highway 60, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Intersection of Texas Highway 60 at Matagorda County Roads 259 & 260
Built in 1830
Listed in the
National Register of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m158609) HM |
| On Market Street at Fisher Street (State Highway 60) on Market Street. |
| | One of the oldest Masonic Lodges in Texas. This lodge traces its history to the Republic of Texas. A group of Masons met together on June 24, 1838, and petitioned the newly created Grand Lodge of Texas for a charter to form a Lodge here. Matagorda . . . — — Map (db m158784) HM |
| On Fisher Street (State Highway 60) at Cypress Street, on the right when traveling west on Fisher Street. |
| | One of the earliest Methodist churches in Texas. Founded Jan. 6, 1839, by the Rev. Jesse Hord, a circuit rider who recorded that he came through "black mud, a pouring down rain and a howling norther" to hold services in Matagorda. When he preached . . . — — Map (db m158724) HM |
| On Laurel Street at Fisher Street, on the right when traveling south on Laurel Street. |
| | This structure was built prior to 1872 on a town lot purchased by Cyrus R. Sharp in 1837 located several blocks east of this site. Constructed of hand-cut lumber and held together with wooden pegs, the building housed only a general store before . . . — — Map (db m158745) HM |
| On Laurel Street near Fisher Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Built with square nails, hand-cut lumber, before 1850. Originally John Clauder's store. Has coast storm water marks half way to ceiling. U.S post office 1889 - 1964 with Amos Duffy, Postmaster 22 years, owning building. Recorded Texas . . . — — Map (db m158748) HM |
| On South Gulf Road 0.1 miles east of Matagorda Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Temporary Chairman of the Consultation, 1835 Member of the General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas 1835 - 1836 Born in Virginia June 1, 1798 Died May 28, 1840 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 — — Map (db m158673) HM |
| On South Gulf Road at Matagorda Cemetery, on the left when traveling east on South Gulf Road. |
| | Statesman-businessman who contributed talent and time to establish and maintain Texas Independence. A quaker; born in Pennsylvania. Moved to Texas 1830. Set up mercantile house and shipping business in Matagorda. Struggled against anti-Texas . . . — — Map (db m158646) HM |
| On Laurel Street 0.1 miles south of Fisher Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | This is the original School House established for the negro children of Matagorda. 1904-1953 — — Map (db m158762) HM |
| On South Gulf Road 0.1 miles east of Matagorda Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Sergeant 11th Regiment, U.S. Infantry, War of 1812 One of Austin's surveyors Laid out the town of San Felipe Born in Vermont June 19, 1790 Died May 12, 1857 Erected by the State of Texas 1936 — — Map (db m158672) HM |
| Near South Gulf Road 0.1 miles east of Matagorda Cemetery Road. |
| | A native of South Carolina, Sinclair David Gervais was a soldier in the War of 1812. He and his wife Katharine were the parents of four children. Following her death, Gervais and two of his daughters came to Texas in 1835. He was appointed the . . . — — Map (db m158680) HM |
| On Fisher Street at Laurel Street, on the left when traveling west on Fisher Street. |
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Prospective Colonial leader who in 1832 hoped to settle thrifty Europeans on a Mexican Grant, which she never received. Mrs. McManus, daughter of a U.S. Congressman from New York, was a family friend of Stephen F. Austin "Father of Texas". . . . — — Map (db m158737) HM |
| On Wightman Street at Caney Road on Wightman Street. |
| | Built in the 1890's for owner George B. Culver. Roy Shoultz, Architect. Colonial styling, with two large galleries and cupola. House built of Louisiana Pine and Cypress. Tile for fireplace brought from England. Distinguished visitors have included . . . — — Map (db m158773) HM |
| On Matagorda Cemetery Road 0.1 miles south of State Highway 60, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Late in 1863, during the Civil War, Union forces stormed much of the Texas coast in an effort to block the flow of goods and supplies going through coastal ports. One of the most important port openings was in Matagorda Bay where the Gulf of . . . — — Map (db m158597) HM |
| On Matagorda Cemetery Road 0.1 miles north of South Gulf Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | One of the most important port cities of Texas early history, Matagorda served as an exit point for goods such as cotton shipped down the Colorado River. During the Civil War, it was also an important point for Confederate blockade runners to . . . — — Map (db m158607) HM |
| On Farm to Market #457 (Farm to Market Road 457) at Marina Drive when traveling east on Farm to Market #457. |
| | During the Civil War (1861-65), Federal forces tried several times to seize Texas ports. Galveston was taken on October 5, 1862, but recaptured by a Confederate army on January 1, 1863. Lt. Dick Dowling's troops stopped a Federal invasion at Sabine . . . — — Map (db m31150) HM |
| On Farm to Market Road 521 at Avenue E, on the right when traveling south on Highway 521. |
| | Early residents of Wadsworth (est. 1909) John H. and Anna Ottis received help from Galveston Bishop N. A. Gallagher, the Rev. George Montreuil, and other Catholics in the area to erect the 2-story Sacred Heart Catholic Church/School Building in . . . — — Map (db m158580) HM |
| On St. Francis Cemetery Road (County Highway 233) 0.1 miles north of Farm to Market Road 521, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 1895. First Euro-American Roman Catholic Church in county. Land a gift of Mrs. Frank Seerden and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Butter. In Polish village.
Rebuilt following 1896 hurricane destruction. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - . . . — — Map (db m158592) HM |
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