Historical Markers of Texas

6339 Angelita (Littlest Angel) From Odem, US 77 about 4 mi. SW. Marker reported missing Jan. 2011. Map dot approximate. Angelita was one of several rural communities which grew up in San Patricio County after the Civil War. A schoolhouse was erected in the 1880s and ... 15982 Aransas Pass First Baptist Church 627 S. Houston Street

330 Battle of San Patricio Main St. (FM 666), W. side between Commerce and McGloin streets. The battle of San Patricio was fought in the streets of Old San Patricio at 3:00 A.M. on February 27, 1836. The general council of the provisional ... 15060 Bethel Baptist Church of Christ Odem 6341 Bethel Baptist Church of Christ and Cemetery County Road 64, 2 miles south of Odem. Take Front Street (along railroad tracks) south to CR 64 turn east and continue to cemetery Organized on May 6, 1873, the Bethel Baptist Church of Christ was the first Baptist congregation in San Patricio County. The ten charter members ...

826 Chat Work Club 2400 Memorial Drive, Portland Formed by a group of thirty three women of Valentine's Day, 1921, the Chat Work Club derived its name from the members practice of working on sewing ... 943 Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company Blackland Museum, Green Avenue at Gregory, Taft The Coleman, Mathis, Fulton cattle company was formed in 1871 by partners George Ware Fulton, youngs Coleman, Tom Coleman, Thomas Henry Mathis, and ... 1094 Courthouses of San Patricio County Main St. (FM 666), W. side between Commerce and McGloin streets. Eight structures have served as the seat of local government for the people of San Patricio County since its earliest settlement. A building known ...

1345 Early Ingleside Schools Ingleside on the Bay, SW corner Parkview Pl. and Ingleside Dr. Early education in Ingleside began in the 1850s when settlers John P. and Susan Hatch Borden established Bay Seminary in 1854. The Bordens' school ...

13981 First Baptist Church of Mathis 404 S Bee St Organized in 1905, the First Baptist Church of Mathis has served this community for more than 100 years. Thomas H. Mathis, for whom the community ... 13188 First Presbyterian Church of Taft Marker reported missing Jan. 2025. In the early 20th century, area Presbyterians met with other denominations in a tent, with various pastors holding morning and evening services. ... 13261 First United Methodist Church of Aransas Pass 523 S 8th St Efforts to create a regional shipping center and port in this vicinity began in the middle 19th century. By 1890, plans were well underway to dig ... 12180 First United Methodist Church of Odem 1301 Haisley Ave. The Rev. F. H. Barnhouse held the first recorded church services in the city of Odem in the home of J. W. Wright in 1909. Soon after, Sunday School ... 13980 First United Methodist Church of Sinton 405 W Sinton Serving the community of Sinton since the early 20th century, the roots of the First United Methodist Church date back to earlier interdenominational ... 11690 First United Methodist Church of Taft 302 McIntyre E. A. Hunter was appointed pastor to the Taft, Gregory, Portland and Ingleside circuit in 1910. Methodists in Taft and Gregory worked together to ...

2262 Great Land Lottery of Aransas Pass Aransas Pass Public Library at Lamont and Wheeler streets In 1909, real estate developers E.O. Burton and A.H. Danforth embarked upon a land promotion scheme to take advantage of available land in Aransas ... 2281 Gregory Main Street at Avenue C, across US 181 alt from City hall The town of Gregory traces its beginnings to 1886, the year the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad built a line through San Patricio county. The ... 14741 Gregory School 308 N. Gregory St. The town of Gregory was founded in 1887 when the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway agreed to build a town ...

5271 In Memory of Captain Thomas K. Pearson Old San Patricio Cemetery, CR 1441, 0.5 mi. E of Main St. (FM 666). Also known as Sons of San Patricio monument. In Memory of Captain Thomas K. Pearson, Lieutenant Henry Cooney, Dr. William W. Hoit, Dr. Gustav Bunsen, Joseph Carpenter, Benjamin Dale, William ... 14461 Ingleside Ingleside on the Bay, SW corner Parkview Pl. and Ingleside Dr. The Ingleside community began in the 1850s when George C. Hatch purchased land on both sides of the bayou. He later acquired 3,800 acres of land ...

14899 James McGloin Home private property off FM 666 (no text - RTHL medallion only) 17321 John Wiebel VFW Post 2932 Southeast corner of West Cleveland Blvd. and West Wheeler Ave. In 1899, the United States government passed a law establishing the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) as a fraternal organization to help veterans and ... 17353 Joseph French Green and La Quinta Mansion Gregory City Hall next to their existing marker for that city. The actual location of the remains of the La Quinta Mansion are accessible only by contacting the property owner. Ohio native Joseph French Green arrived in South Texas after the building of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad. During a lawsuit in 1886, ... 14201 Josepha Rodriguez Main St. (FM 666), W. side between Commerce and McGloin streets. Josepha Rodríguez, known as "Chipita," was hanged in 1863 for the murder of John Savage. She remained the last woman legally executed in the state ...

13849 Late Pleistocene Ingleside Fauna Swan Lake, 2800 block Avenue A, near First Street Known today as Swan Lake, this is the site of an archeological excavation that yielded one of the largest assortments of fossils found in a single ...

12182 Meansville and Kaleta Park Avenue (US 77) in Welder Park, Odem Col. William Marshall Means, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, came to San Patricio County with his family in the 1850s and settled southeast ...

23830 N.R. Smith Building 500 Voss Ave. Opened in 1922, the N.R. Smith building was an early mercantile structure built by Norman Reed Smith (1870-1952). Smith’s parents, Aaron and Rebecca, ...

14759 Odem Area Schools, Early Odem 3665 Odem Building Vineyard at Sinton Streets, Sinton The Sinton townsite company was organized in 1894 to promote the development of the new railroad town of Sinton. Local merchant David Odem, one of ... 17322 Odem First Baptist Church East corner of W. Turner and Haisley Ave. ON SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1912, BAPTISTS OF ODEM ORGANIZED THEIR OWN CONGREGATION. REV. R. A. COHRAN, GENERAL MISSIONARY OF THE BLANCO ASSOCIATION, WAS ... 3703 Old Cemetery on the Hill Main St. (FM 666), W. side between Commerce and McGloin streets. See also duplicate marker at Old San Patricio Cemetery, 0.6 mi. NE on CR 1441 This cemetery is believed to have been used for generations by Indian tribes and Mexican settlers who lived in this area previous to Anglo colonization. ... 23439 Old Cemetery on the Hill Old San Patricio Cemetery, CR 1441, 0.5 mi. E of Main St. (FM 666). See also duplicate marker 0.6 mi. SW on Main St. (FM 666), W. side between Commerce and McGloin streets. This cemetery is believed to have been used for generations by Indian tribes and Mexican settlers who lived in this area previous to Anglo colonization. ... 6342 Old Dougherty House FM 666 (West Main) and Nopal Streets, San Patricio Location of noted St. Paul's Academy for Boys. Home of school owner Robert Dougherty (1827-1881), a refugee from 1840s Irish famine. Educated at ...

4059 Plymouth Oil Company and Plymouth Oilers 301 North Rachal, Stinton Pennsylvania-based Plymouth Oil Company was founded in 1923 by M.L. "Mike" Benedum (d. 1959). With operations headquarters in Sinton, the company ... 6343 President William Howard Taft Visits Taft Corner Victoria and Kirkpatrick Streets, Taft In 1908, Charles P. Taft, director of the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company (also known as Taft Ranch) extended an invitation to his half-brother, newly-elected ...

4225 Reef Road between Indian Point Park and Sunset Lake Early settlers in the eastern and central areas of San Patricio county faced difficulty traveling across Corpus Christi Bay to Corpus Christi, the ... 4268 Rincon Ranch from Gregory take FM 136 9 miles north Youngs Coleman and his son, Thomas, established a south Texas ranching empire in the 1850's. The headquarters of their operation was here at Rincon ... 20182 Rosita Cemetery marker pending marker pending

4476 Saint Patrick's Catholic Church FM 666 (Main Street) San Patricio Empresarios John McMullen and James McGloin brought irish catholic immigrant families to Texas about 1829 to form a new colony, San Patricio de Hibernia. ... 4549 San Patricio County Main St. (FM 666), W. side between Commerce and McGloin streets. 1936 plate replaced in 1973. Spanish exploration and activity in the area dated from 1519, through 1821, when Mexico won its independence. In 1828, James McGloin and John McMullen ... 4550 San Patricio de Hibernia Main St. (FM 666), W. side between Commerce and McGloin streets. Founded in 1830 by John McMullen and James McGloin as the seat of their Irish colony under an empresario contract dated August 17, 1828 which was ... 4660 Sharpsburg and Borden's Ferry from Odem, US 77 about 4.5 miles SW to (now closed) rest stop. Marker reported missing Jul. 2011. Map dot approximate. Named for an early area sheep rancher, the town of Sharpsburg grew into a regional trade center in the 1870's when Sidney Gail Borden (d. 1908) operated ... 6340 Site of Bay View College Placed 1973 at T.M. Clark School, Austin Street at Daniel Moore. Moved 2007 to Violet Andrews Park. An important school of the coastal region, founded for scattered South Texas ranch children, by Thomas M. (1856-1943) and Alice Yantis Clark (1857-1913), ... 12181 Site of Indian Point Mass Grave of 1919 Hurricane Victims US 181 access road (Old Hwy. 35), at N end of bridge (E side of highway) In the early morning hours of Sunday, September 14, 1919, a hurricane made landfall in Corpus Christi after gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico ... 15254 Site of the Home of James McGloin private property off FM 666 Born in County Sligo, Ireland - With John McMullen he secured a contract to settle 200 families August 17, 1828 - Landed his colonists at El Copano, ... 12184 Site of West Portland FM 893, 0.1 mi. N of FM 1074, west of Portland. Marker reported missing Jun. 2018. The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad was built through this area in the late 1880s. In 1908 the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company decided to encourage ... 12186 Site of White Point Mass Graves of 1919 Hurricane Victims FM 893, 0.1 mi. N of FM 1074, west of Portland. On Saturday, September 13, 1919, the last swarms of vacationers who packed the Corpus Christi beaches were warned that a massive hurricane, which ... 12183 Sodville Community 4.9 mi. S of Sinton on FM 2046; 2 mi. E on FM 1944 to FM 1074 George H. Paul, a land developer from Iowa, joined forces with the giant Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company in 1907 and 1908 to sell 56,000 acres of ... 5068 St. Paul US 181, St. Paul (6 miles north of Sinton) The town of St. Paul began in 1910, the result of a land promotion operation by developer George H. Paul and the Shary Land Company. George Paul ...

5189 Taft Agricultural Industrial Complex US 181, N side, 100 feet NW of Packing House Ave. The Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company laid out the town of Taft on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad line in 1900. The intention of the company ... 5230 Terminal Railroad Goodnight Road (SH 361) near Railroad Street Built in 1892, the Aransas Harbor Terminal Railroad ("Old Terminal Railroad") provided a means for transporting rock from mainland quarries to jetties ... 15106 Thomas Henry Mathis Ranch Cenizo Hill Cemetery on CR 441 In 1879, following the dissolution of the Coleman, Mathis, Fulton Cattle Company, Thomas Henry Mathis (1834-1899) established a ranch he called the ...

12185 West Sinton Community 12 mi. W of Sinton on FM 630 at FM 796 In the early days of the 20th century, the land in this area was situated within the large J. J. Welder Cattle Ranch. George Paul developed much ... 14784 White Point/Rosita Voss Avenue (US 77) at West Humphries Street Native American tribes occupied land in this vicinity before Spanish explorers claimed the region in the 18th Century. Anglo American settlers began ...