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TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKERS

Matagorda County Historical Markers 

NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY- 131
Have- 118  Need- 13
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,,     The county seat  is Bay City. This county is named for the coastal cane breaks, matagorda meaning thick brush in Spanish. 
    Our experience in this county was brief, lasting only long enough to capture a few markers in Blessing. Now here is the sad part of the story. We had planned to stay overnight and checked into the Luther Hotel but couldn't stay because the room had not been cleaned the toilet had urine under the seat and feces clinging to the bowl. As soon as we realized we left, neither of us feeling comfortable with sleeping there knowing that housekeeping had overlooked the bathroom. The manager who was outside drinking asked why we were leaving, we told her, she offered to go up and clear the bathroom but the worry about COVID was too great. She did say she would credit our card and apologised but this never happened. It a shame because it a neat old hotel overlooking the bay. We didn't even get a chance to capture the hotel marker because it was dark when we left and we were expecting to be ther in the morning. 
      So we need to go back, we will of course stay somewhere else. 

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August 1st, 2022 - So we did go back and stayed on the beach at Matagorda. Unfortunately during this time my dad was hit by a car in Australia and was in the ICU and I think the worry of that will forever be mixed with the memories of this trip. I couldn't go back to Australia due to COVID,  so this trip was a welcome distraction. We ate at the Fat Grass in Bay City which I wanted to love, if only because I like the font on the restautant sign but unfortunately it was just okay. 
    It was a successful trip with a few difficulties as usual. I like sthe gumbo from Poco Player and the Shore restuarant was pretty much what you except from a small coastal town seafood restaurant. I enjoyed being so close to the beach it was relaxing and the fact that the cabin didn't have internet actually helped a lot to unwine. I like the little town of Palacios, It felt like a very laid back Texas town by the beach. LaVacs Barbecue was not open which was a shame because it is supposed to be excellent. One thing that happened on this trip that was unique was that we were loking for a historical marker for a church and I walked into the middle of the service that was being conducted via loud speaker to the congregation in their cars I really wasn't aware until I had captured the marker and saw all the cars facing my direction. It was cool that despite of COVID this community still wanted to worship together all be it safetly. 
There were a few on private property that we could not access, Hawkins Lake Home, John Duncan and First High School in Bay City , we are working on these. The Blue Star Memorial By-Way was damaged and the Matagorda Historical Commission elected not to reinstate it. Buckeye is new and there are a few not yet up The Confederate Defenses ay the Mouth of Caney Creek will be reinstated. 

Abel "Shanghai" Pierce
Albert Clinton Horton
Ashby-Wilson Creek Community 
Bandstand 
Battle Island
Bay City Library 
Bay City Methodist Church 
Bay City Post Office 
Bay City USO Building 
Bethel Baptist Church 
Bethlehem Christian Church 
Blessing Library Association 
Blessing State Bank 
Blue Star Memorial By-Way 
Buckeye 
Cates-Price House 
Cedarvale Cemetery 
Christ Church 
Christ Episcopal Church 
City Hall and Fire Station, 1928 
City of Matagorda 
Clemville 
Collegeport 
Collegeport Cemetery 
Confederate Defenses at the Mouth of Caney Creek 
Confederate Memorial (Matagorda) 
D. P. and Louise Moore House 
Daily Tribune and Matagorda County Tribune 
Dale-Rugeley-Sisk Home ca. 1830 
Deming's Bridge Community 
Dr. Albert Moses Levy 
Dr. Henry Hofmann Loos 
Early Education in Matagorda 
Early Texas Freighting 
Eastview Cemetery 
Elliott's Ferry 
First Baptist Church of Bay City 
First Baptist Church of Palacios 
First Berean Missionary Baptist Church 
First Burials in Matagorda Cemetery, Benjamin Wightman and Esther Randall Wightman 
First Christian Church of Bay City 
First High School in Bay City 
First Presbyterian Church of Bay City 
First Presbyterian Church of Collegeport
First Presbyterian Church of Palacios 
First United Methodist Church of Palacios 
Fisher-Sargent-Gottschalk House 
Gaines-Rugeley-LeTulle House 
General John Augustus Hulen 
Grimes Cemetery 
Grove Hill Missionary Baptist Church 
Harmon Jerome MCAllister
Hawkins Lake Home 
Hawley Cemetery 
Hensley-Gusman House 
Holman House 
Holy Cross Catholic Church 
Home of Horace Yeamans 
Hotel Blessing 
Ira Ingram 
Ira Ingram, First Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives 
James Henry Selkirk
James Wilmer Dallam
John Duncan 
Kilbride - Barkley House 

Linnis Roberts Elementary School
James Wilmer Dallam
Lukefahr School Community 
M. S. and Cora Alice Perry House 
Major George Morse Collinsworth 
Masonic Lodge #411 
Matagorda, C.S.A. 
Matagorda Cemetery 
Matagorda Cemetery 
Matagorda County 
Matagorda County 
Matagorda Lodge No. 7, A.F. & A.M. 
Matagorda Methodist Church 
Memorial to all Veterans 
Midfield Cemetery 
Midfield Methodist Church
​Morton House
Mother Zion Missionary Baptist Church 
Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church 
Old Bay City Bank 
Old Hawley Cemetery 
Old Matagorda Post Office
Old Matagorda Post Office 
Old Palacios Hotel
Palacios Cemetery 
Palacios Colored School 
Palacios Pavilions 
Palacios Preparatory School 
Partain Cemetery
Philip H. Parker Post No. 2438, V.F.W. 
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church 
Pilkington Slough Ranch 
Price-Farwell House 
Pybus-Koerber House 
R. J. Hill Building 
Richard Royster Royall 
S. Rhoads Fisher 
Sacred Heart Catholic Church 
Sargent Cemetery 
Sargent-Rugeley House 
Selkirk Island 
Seth Ingram 
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church 
Sinclair David Gervais 
Site of Camp Hulen 
Site of Caney Post Office 
Site of Dream Colony of Jane McManus 
Site of Early Bay City School 
Site of Hilliard High School 
St. Francis Catholic Church
St. John's Episcopal Church 
St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church 
St. Mark's Episcopal Church 
St. Peter's Baptist Church
St. Peter's Catholic Church 
Texas Baptist Encampment Grounds 
The A. B. Pierce Home 
The Culver Home 
The F. Cornelius House
The Matagorda Incident 
The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1862 
Van Vleck Independent School District
Vine Grove Christian Church
W.C. Williams Building 
​West Side Elementary School
William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger 
World War I and II Memorial 
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  • Greenbrier Cemetery
  • Wilson Chapel Methodist Church
  • Marian Anderson High School
  • Alfred M. Hallmark
  • Frank Mulder Gossett
  • No 57: Old San Antonio Road
  • Zephyr Cemetery
  • Zephyr Gospel Tabernacle
  • First Baptist Church of Zephyr
  • Military Road
  • Zephyr Presbyterian Church
  • Burkett Pecan Tree
  • Hittson Ranch
  • Callahan City Cemetery
  • Admiral Baptist Church
  • Belle Plaine Cemetery
  • Ross Cemetery
  • Callahan County
  • The Prew House
  • Brooke Smith
  • Minnie Fisher Cunningham
  • Ebenezer Baptist Church
  • Dodge
  • Site of Andrew Female College
  • Glendale Cemetery
  • Community of Fodice
  • Holy Rosary Catholic Parish
  • Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba
  • B. T. Brown House
  • German Methodist Church/First Fire Station
  • Providence Church and Cemetery
  • Packsaddle Mountain
  • Homesite of W. F. Heller, Pioneer Farmer
  • The Bosque-Larios Expedition
  • No. 60 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 56 Old San Antonio Road
  • No. 59 Old San Antonio Road
  • Texas Central Railroad
  • Center City Community
  • Orla
  • Fairview Cemetery
  • Leon County Courthouse
  • Anderson County in the Civil War
  • Judge H.T. Brown
  • Washington County, C.S.A.
  • Leander
  • Oveta Culp Hobby and the Women's Army Corps
  • Jacob Haller House
  • James M. Holt
  • Washington-on-the Brazos
  • Donigan House
  • Fort Worth Stock Yards Entrance
  • Smithfield Baptist Church
  • Elite Cafe
  • Joseph Brooks Home
  • Phair Cemetery
  • Robert Justus Kleberg
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