Calhoun County (Master)

Calhoun County Historical Markers

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 71

Have- 62 Need - 9

Named for John Caldwell Calhoun, the seventh vice president of the United States. County seat is Post 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 I miss being close to the sea but largely because Calhoun County Historical Commission was so incredibly helpful that I felt 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 with 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 I 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
Beach Hotel
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Calhoun County Hurricanes
Calhoun County Jail
Calhoun County Participation in World War II
Civil War Bombarbment of Port Lavaca
Civil War Torpedo Works
Clark Cemetery
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.
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
Sunlight Girls Club
Sylvanus Hatch
The Battle of Norris Bridge
The Chihuahua Road
The Great Camel Experiment
Wiley George
Zimmerman Cemetery
Zimmerman Cemetery