Vicinity of
Oyster Creek and
Chocolate Bayou
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Marker Text: Most early Texas homes and towns were built along streams that provided water for people and livestock, and travel for boats said to be capable of "floating on a heavy dew".
Oyster Creek served, 1822-1861, as such a homesite-highway. Its boat landings were piled high with sugar, cotton, cane and other products of some of America's richest plantations. Chocolate Bayou was an area of early-day cattle raising. These were 2 of 50 streams and 10 bays that made this coast a network of useful waterways. (1968) Marker No: 9545
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: N 29° 19.994 W 095° 17.146
Location: SH 35 about 6 mi. south of Alvin in roadside park, Alvin
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