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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28HB_commodore-leon-smith_Port-Arthur-TX.html
Maine native Leonidas Smith (b. 1829) became a sailor as a youth and, by age 21 commanded the U.S. Mail Packet Pacific along the west coast. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, he was sailing out of Galveston, Texas. He served as volunteer n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28GQ_spaights-11th-battalion_Port-Arthur-TX.html
Commanded by Col. Ashley W. Spaight, the 11th Battalion of Texas Volunteers, Confederate States Army, was nicknamed the "Swamp Angels." Tracing its origins to the "Sabine Pass Guards" militia formed in 1861, the battalion served during the Civil W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28GH_city-of-sabine-and-sabine-pass_Port-Arthur-TX.html
The first known settlers in this area were John McGaffey and Thomas Courts, who arrived in 1832. Sam Houston assisted Manuel de los Santos Coy in acquiring a land grant here in 1833. Two years later Houston and two partners purchased Coy's propert…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28GB_fort-sabine_Port-Arthur-TX.html
During the Civil War, the Sabine Pass Channel was a strategic gateway to the interior of eastern Texas and western Louisiana, control of which was vital. Fearing a possible Union invasion, the citizens of Sabine City (later Sabine Pass) formed a &…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28G7_1886-hurricane-at-sabine-pass_Port-Arthur-TX.html
In October 1886, Sabine Pass was the second largest town in Jefferson County, boasting a new rail line and an optimistic outlook on continued growth as a major coastal port. On the afternoon of October 12, just two months after a hurricane had des…