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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D6W_colorado-county_Columbus-TX.html
A part of Stephen F. Austin'sFirst ColonyCreated March 17, 1836Organized in 1837
The river traversing the region was called ""Colorado" (red) by Spanish explorers who mistook it for the reddish Brazos. From the river, the county took its name
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15NJ_old-osage_Weimar-TX.html
Site of 1820 trading post of Jesse Burnam. His ferry on the Colorado River helped Gen. Sam Houston reach San Jacinto, 1836. To cut off Santa Anna, Houston then burned post and ferry.
Town started in 1850s was named for Osage Orange trees.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOO3_alleyton-c-s-a_Alleyton-TX.html
Born as War clouds gathered. Alleyton was a key point on the supply line of the Confederate States of American during the Civil War. It was both beginning and end of the cotton road leading to the Confederacy's back door on the Rio Grande River.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK4X_town-of-eagle-lake_Eagle-Lake-TX.html
Named for lake where in 1821 exploring party of Stephen F. Austin killed an eagle. In 1851 resident Gamaliel Good started a Houston-to-San Antonio Stage line with lakeside headquarters. In 1856, with D. W. C. Harris, Good platted Eagle Lake townsi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK4U_rice-culture-in-colorado-county_Eagle-Lake-TX.html
The rice industry did not spread into the coastal plains region west of Houston until the very end of the 19th century. In 1898, Captain William Dunovant (1845-1902), a local plantation owner and entrepreneur, planted 40 acres of rice at the south…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK4T_lakeside-sugar-refinery_Eagle-Lake-TX.html
The Sugar Industry, which began in Texas before the Civil War (1861-65), was revived in the late 1800s by cheaper refining methods. One of the leading sugar producers in Colorado County was William Dunovant. In 1898 he and several men from Eagle L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZW_tumlinson-family_Columbus-TX.html
John (1776-1823) and Elizabeth Plemmons (1778-1829) Tumlinson were born in Lincoln County, North Carolina and lived in Tennessee, Illinois, and Arkansas before coming to Texas with their seven children as members of Austin's Old Three Hundred Colo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJYI_navigation-of-the-colorado-river_Eagle-Lake-TX.html
Because overland travel in early Texas was an enterprise often fraught with hardship, frustration, and danger, many individuals looked to rivers for a solution to the problem. From 1829 to the Civil War, optimistic Texans attempted to ply the area…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJYG_stage-lines-through-columbus_Columbus-TX.html
Nineteenth-century stagecoach operations in Texas were closely tied to mail delivery, and contracts with the U.S. Postal Service more often than not made the transportation of passengers and freight by stage economically feasible. As an early comm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJUO_the-rangers-of-austins-colony_Columbus-TX.html
By March 1822, Stephen F. Austin had attracted about 150 colonists to Texas. The pioneers faced many hardships, including concern for their protection form Indians along the Colorado and Brazos rivers. In December of that year, Trespalacios, the M…