Calhoun County Historical Markers

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 76
Have- 62 Need - 14
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       Calhoun County is named for John Caldwell Calhoun, the seventh vice president of the United States. The county seat is Port Lavaca. We have been to Calhoun County a couple of times, both times, there were intermittent heavy downpours (look at  the puddles in Olivia Cemetery). Usually when we plan a trip, it goes something like this, Steve says I think we need to go a road trip, me - okay, when are we going?  sometime usually a few weeks after this conversation I may or may not get told the destination, it usually happens when he wants me to review the counties he plans to visit, this is fine with me I like the surprise. With Calhoun County however, I choose the destination partially because it's coastal and being from Sydney, Australia I miss being close to the sea but largely because Calhoun County Historical Commission was so incredibly helpful that I felt that even though there were markers that would prove challenging, they would provide the information to make it possible to complete the county. That has yet to happen because weather intervened and cut our time a little short. Calhoun County iHistorical Commission is  also very active and place several new markers each year so we have some new ones to capture also. 
     On this visit we stayed in the Holiday Inn Express which had a bay view and was a quick walk across the car park to the Shellfish Sports Bar & Grille I'm not going to say it's the best food in the world but after driving all day it was nice not to have to get back in the car and they do have a nice craft beer selection. They also had an alligator in their pond which I was sure was not real, I mean if it had been a crocodile a lot people may have ended in the pond as a snack so I was certainly not expecting to see a live alligator after dinner. 
 6th December, 2017 - There are some markers on private property, but thus far property owners are open to visitors. I'm not sure the Calhoun County jail marker still exists, the jail was razed. The pink centennial county marker  was replaced with a 20 x 20 metal subject marker sometime in the sixties. There is a large piece of granite at Indianola that may or may not  have been this original marker. 
1st February, 2019 - Calhoun County Historical Commission is as I have said before very active so I was pretty sure, on reviewing this county after a year, there would be new markers. I was not disappointed  there were three new markers listed though I'm not sure all three are actually up yet. 
6th September, 2019 - We slipped into Calhoun for only a minute after visiting Victoria. We managed to add a couple more markers to the set and Calhoun has not added any new markers so we are a couple markers closer to a full set. 
Alice O. Wilkins School
Alsatian Immigration through Lavaca Bay
Andrew A. Rasmussen 
Angelina Bell Peyton Eberly 
​Battle of Norris Bridge
Beach Hotel 
Calhoun County
Calhoun County
Calhoun County Hurricanes 
Calhoun County Jail 
Calhoun County Participation in World War II 
Chocolate Community
Civil War Bombarbment of Port Lavaca
Civil War Torpedo Works 
Clark Cemetery 
​Clark Station
Cotton Gins of Calhoun County
Cox's Point
Don Martin De Leon
Ed Bell
Edward Fred Knipling
First Baptist Church of Port Lavaca 
First Presbyterian Church of Port Lavaca
First United Methodist Church of Port Lavaca
German Immigration through Carlishafen
Grace Episcopal Church 
Grace Episcopal Church 
Green Lake 
Half Moon Reef Lighthouse
Hatch Cemetery
Howard Gallemore Hartzhog, Sr. 
Indianola 
Indianola Cemetery 
Indianola Cemetery 
Jefferson Beaumont 
Judge Henry Joseph Huck
Kamey Community
Lavaca Lodge No. 36 A.F. & A.M. 
Louis Antoine Andry
Matagorda Island Lighthouse
Moses Johnson, M.D. 
Moses Johnson, M.D.
Mt. Sinai Baptist Church 
Old Town Cemetery
Old Town Cemetery
Olivia 
Olivia Cemetery 
Original Mission Refugio
Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church 
Port Lavaca
Port Lavaca Cemetery 
Port Lavaca Chapter No. 373, Order of the Eastern Star
Port O'Connor
Port O'Connor Cemetery
Ranger Cemetery
Ranger Cemetery
Rene Robert Cavelier,  de la Salle 
Saint Joseph Baptist Church
Salem Lutheran Church 
San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad
Seadrift 
Seadrift Cemetery 
Sgt. William Henry Barnes
Site of the Town of Indianola 
Six Mile Presbyterian Church
Six Mile-Royal Community
Six Mile Cemetery 
Site of the Town of Linnville 
Springs of Calhoun County
Sunlight Girls Club
Sylvanus Hatch 
The Chihuahua Road
The Great Camel Experiment 
Wiley George 
Zimmerman Cemetery 
Zimmerman Cemetery