Historic Matagorda County, Texas
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Author | : John Columbus Marr |
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Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Matagorda County (Tex.) |
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Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 1894 |
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Author | : Matagorda County Museum Association |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008-10-13 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439636001 |
Matagorda County is centered in the Texas Coastal Bend at the crossroads of the Colorado River and the Gulf of Mexico. The name Matagorda, Spanish for thick brush, was derived from the canebrakes that formerly lined the extensive shoreline. This vast coastal prairie is rich in history and tradition, with its roots dating back to 1685 when the explorer LaSalle sailed into Matagorda Bay. Later Stephen F. Austin used the seaports of Matagorda and Brazoria to build his new colony. The Gulf of Mexico, the rivers, the rich agricultural soil, the natural habitat full of wild game and birds, and the determined spirit of the people make the cities of Bay City, Palacios, Blessing, Sargent, and Matagorda an exquisite mix of history and tradition.
Author | : Shirley Ledwig Brown |
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Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Matagorda County (TX) |
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Author | : McAllister Junior Historians. Chapter 241, Bay City, Tex |
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Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : United North & South Development Company |
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Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1932 |
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Author | : Margaret Lewis Furse |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 162349110X |
In 1846, James Boyd Hawkins, his wife Ariella, and their young children left North Carolina to establish a sugar plantation in Matagorda County, in the Texas coastal bend. In The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present, Margaret Lewis Furse, a great-granddaughter of James B. and Ariella Hawkins and an active partner in today’s Hawkins Ranch, has mined public records, family archives, and her own childhood memories to compose this sweeping portrait of more than 160 years of plantation, ranch, and small-town life. Letters sent by the Hawkinses from the Texas plantation to their North Carolina family in the mid-nineteenth century describe sugar making, the perils of cholera and fevers, the activities of children, and the “management” of slaves. Public records and personal papers reveal the experience of the Hawkins family during the Civil War, when J. B. Hawkins sold goods to the Confederacy and helped with Confederate coastal defenses near his plantation. In the 1930s, the death of their parents left the ranch in the hands of four sisters, at a time when few women owned and ran cattle operations. The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present offers a panoramic view of agrarian lifeways and how they must adapt to changing times.
Author | : Gifford E. White |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Land tenure |
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