Jackson County, C.S.A. 

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Marker Text: ​In 1861, voted for secession 147 to 77. With its beef and cotton, helped supply South. Furnished salt from beds near Cox's Creek; hides and tallow from a plant between Port Lavaca and Texana; lead from Navidad mine (now a "lost mine"). Homefolk molded bullets and sent to fighting men, along with clothes woven, sewed or knitted by the family.
​     Couriers operated along a line that skirted blockade coast from mouth of Caney Creek to Brownsville. Home guard kept enemy ships off the shores. A Confederate gunboat, chased from Lavaca Bay, sank in the Navidad. (1965) 

Marker No: 2703

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 28.978109, -96.646973

Location: Courthouse grounds, 115 West Main Street, Edna