On Central Street (Farm to Market Road 1095) at Mopac (County Highway 367), on the right when traveling west on Central Street.
Jonathan Edward Pierce and Abel Brown Pierce hired land developer Burton D. Hurd to sell off 9,000 acres of their ranch lands in 1908. The agreement with Hurd called for the development of a town that would include a college and a port on . . . — — Map (db m169089) HM
On Williams Drive at Central Street (Farm to Market Road 1095), on the right when traveling south on Williams Drive.
The town of Collegeport, on Tres Palacios Bay in Matagorda County, was planned by the Burton D. Hurd Land Company as a promotional scheme for selling the lands of J.E. and A.B. Pierce. The company provided land for a townsite and the creation of . . . — — Map (db m169066) HM
On Oyster Lake Road (County Highway 365) 1 mile south of Central Street (Farm to Market Road 1095), on the right when traveling south.
The Pilkington Slough Ranch, of the Collegeport Community, has been an area landmark for more than 100 years. The original owners of the bulk of this land were Daniel, Elias and Erastus Yeamans, three brothers who fought in the Texas War for . . . — — Map (db m169081) HM
