Matagorda County Historical Markers
NUMBER OF MARKERS IN COUNTY- 131
Have- 118 Need- 13
,, 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.
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.
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
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