Kleberg County Historical Markers
NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY - 34
Have - 31 Need- 3
This county is named for Robert J. Kleberg who was an early settler. The county seat is Kingsville.
We first visited this part of Texas in 2005 on our way home from South Padre Island which part of our first honeymoon. At this stage of the trip we were ready to get get home so we didn't do the King Ranch tour, that would have allowed us to capture the Santa Gertrudis ranch headquarters marker, though I'm not sure our camera at the time would have been up to the task as I believe you have to snap a shot from the tour bus. I found some evidense that the marker entitled King Ranch C.S.A. maybe on the ranch rather than at the entrance, which is the location given by the Texas Historical Commission. There are also several other shots that are less great, the Texas Historical Commission actually does have some of them listed as missing so they maybe as good as gets.
We visited again recently, and were sort of free-styling and therefore not as prepared as we normally are, it was also soooo hot and we lost patience pretty quickly. Thats when the margaritas started calling! 🍸and we did miss a couple of the newer markers.
We first visited this part of Texas in 2005 on our way home from South Padre Island which part of our first honeymoon. At this stage of the trip we were ready to get get home so we didn't do the King Ranch tour, that would have allowed us to capture the Santa Gertrudis ranch headquarters marker, though I'm not sure our camera at the time would have been up to the task as I believe you have to snap a shot from the tour bus. I found some evidense that the marker entitled King Ranch C.S.A. maybe on the ranch rather than at the entrance, which is the location given by the Texas Historical Commission. There are also several other shots that are less great, the Texas Historical Commission actually does have some of them listed as missing so they maybe as good as gets.
We visited again recently, and were sort of free-styling and therefore not as prepared as we normally are, it was also soooo hot and we lost patience pretty quickly. Thats when the margaritas started calling! 🍸and we did miss a couple of the newer markers.
24th May, 2021 - On the way home from a South Texas trip with picked a few more marker in Klegberg County. The King Ranch C.S.A. still eludes us and no one seems to know exactly what happened to it.
1766 Exploration of Diego Ortiz Parrilla
Approximate Route of U.S. Army March to the Rio Grande, 1846
Camp Kingsville, U.S.A.
Camp San Fernando
Chamberlain Cemetery
Civil War Raid from Camp Boveda
Dawson Richard Murchison
Englishmen in South Texas, 1568
First Baptist Church of Kingsville
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
First Presbyterian Church of Kingsville
First Producing Gas Well in Kleberg County
First United Methodist Church of Kingsville
Henrietta M. King High School
Historic Cattle Dipping Vat
Indian Burial Ground
King Ranch, C.S.A.
King Star Baptist Church
Kingsville Cotton Mill
The Kingsville Railroad Depot
Kleberg County
Mexican Activities at Santa Gertrudis in the 1830's
Near Site of Hide and Tallow Plant
Presbyterian Pan American School
Riviera Cemetery
Riviera United Methodist Church
Robert J. Kleberg Public Library
Santa Gertrudis, Headquarters of the King Ranch
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Taylor Camp Site
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
The King Ranch
U.S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station
Uriah Lott
Approximate Route of U.S. Army March to the Rio Grande, 1846
Camp Kingsville, U.S.A.
Camp San Fernando
Chamberlain Cemetery
Civil War Raid from Camp Boveda
Dawson Richard Murchison
Englishmen in South Texas, 1568
First Baptist Church of Kingsville
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
First Presbyterian Church of Kingsville
First Producing Gas Well in Kleberg County
First United Methodist Church of Kingsville
Henrietta M. King High School
Historic Cattle Dipping Vat
Indian Burial Ground
King Ranch, C.S.A.
King Star Baptist Church
Kingsville Cotton Mill
The Kingsville Railroad Depot
Kleberg County
Mexican Activities at Santa Gertrudis in the 1830's
Near Site of Hide and Tallow Plant
Presbyterian Pan American School
Riviera Cemetery
Riviera United Methodist Church
Robert J. Kleberg Public Library
Santa Gertrudis, Headquarters of the King Ranch
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Taylor Camp Site
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
The King Ranch
U.S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station
Uriah Lott