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This marker is
located on a point of land just NE of the Lavaca Bay bridge before
getting to Point Comfort.
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, June 2007 |
1936 Texas Centennial
Marker:
Site of Cox's
Point
An early landing
place of
supplies for the interior
Captain Jack Shackleford's
" Red Rovers" of Alabama
disembarked at this point.
A town established here in 1836
was burned
by Indians in 1840 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Named for early
settler Thomas Cox, the "point" was originally at the end of a peninsula
that jutted into what is now Cox's Bay - bounded by the larger Lavaca
Bay. This was an early point of entry for Americans entering Mexican
Texas in the 1820s and 30s and was also the site of a trading post
in 1832.
Cox's Point has a shared
history with the neighoring ghost town of Linnville.
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