Matagorda County Historical Markers
Matagorda County has 134 Texas historical markers across 15 towns and communities. 31 of them mark Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. The earliest went up in 1936.
- Markers
- 134
- Mapped
- 120
- Landmarks
- 31
Common subjects here: Churches and Congregations, Historic Homes, Military History, Cemeteries, African American History, Texas Revolution and the Republic
Bay City 34
- Old Bay City Bank 1965
- Bay City Library 1989
- Bay City Methodist Church 1986
- Bay City Post Office 1991
- Bay City U.S.O. Building 1999
- Bethel Baptist Church 1993
- Cedarvale Cemetery 1991
- City Hall and Fire Station, 1928
- D.P. and Louise Moore House 1994
- Daily Tribune and Matagorda County Tribune 1981
- Dr. Henry Hofmann Loos 2012
- Site of Early Bay City School 1986
- Elliott's Ferry 1986
- First Baptist Church of Bay City 1994
- First Berean Missionary Baptist Church 2002
- First Christian Church of Bay City 2001
- First Presbyterian Church of Bay City 1994
- Gaines-Rugeley-LeTulle House 1994
- Harmon Jerome McAllister 2021
- Site of Hilliard High School 2002
- Holman House 1994
- Holy Cross Catholic Church 2006
- Kilbride-Barkley House 1994
- Linnie Roberts Elementary School 2020
- Lukefahr School Community 2008
- M.S. and Cora Alice Perry House 1997
- Matagorda County 1936
- Mother Zion Missionary Baptist Church 1994
- Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church 2004
- Philip H. Parker Post No. 2438, V.F.W. 2011
- Rugeley Building (Old City Bank) 1965
- Sargent-Rugeley House 2015
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church 1986
- Vine Grove Christian Church 1997
Matagorda 19
- Albert Clinton Horton 1986
- The Culver Home 1967
- Dale-Rugeley-Sisk Home ca. 1830 1964
- Dr. Albert Moses Levy 1986
- Early Texas Freighting 1967
- First Burials in Matagorda Cemetery, Benjamin Wightman and Esther Randall Wightman 1972
- Fisher-Sargent-Gottschalk House 1991
- James Henry Selkirk 2021
- James Wilmer Dallam 2020
- Major George Morse Collinsworth 1936
- Matagorda Cemetery 1970
- Matagorda Cemetery 2002
- The Matagorda Incident 2015
- Old Matagorda Post Office 1992
- Richard Royster Royall 1936
- S. Rhoads Fisher 1968
- Sinclair David Gervais 1989
- St. Peter's Baptist Church 1998
- The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1862 2015
Palacios 18
- Site of Camp Hulen 1997
- Casa de Dios 2022
- Cates-Price House 1998
- First Baptist Church of Palacios 2004
- First Presbyterian Church of Palacios 1999
- First United Methodist Church of Palacios 2003
- General John Augustus Hulen 2002
- Home of Horace Yeamans 1965
- Luther Hotel 1965
- Palacios Cemetery 1986
- Palacios Colored School 2019
- Palacios Pavilions 1991
- Price-Farwell House 2004
- Pybus-Koerber House 2004
- R. J. Hill Building 2000
- St. John's Episcopal Church 2004
- W.C. Williams Building 2015
- West Side Elementary School 2021
Blessing 10
- Abel Head "Shanghai" Pierce_Jonathan Edwards Pierce 2022
- Ashby-Wilson Creek Community 2002
- Blessing Library Association 2004
- Blessing State Bank 1997
- Deming's Bridge Community 1986
- Grimes Cemetery 2008
- Hawley Cemetery 2012
- Partain Cemetery 2020
- St. Peter's Catholic Church 2008
- William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger 2014
Markham 5
- Buckeye 2011
- Japanese Farmers in Matagorda County 2022
- Markham 2023
- Markham United Methodist Church 2023
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church 1999
Collegeport 4
Midfield 3
- The F. Cornelius House 1971
- Midfield Cemetery 2004
- Midfield Methodist Church 2003
Van Vleck 3
Cedar Lane 2
Pledger 2
- John Duncan 1936
- Jones-Jackson Cemetery 2023
Cedar Lake 1
Markham vicinity 1
- Clemville 2001
Sargent 1
- Sargent Cemetery 1986
Sargent vicinity 1
Wadsworth 1
Elsewhere in Matagorda County 29
- The A. B. Pierce Home 1968
- Bandstand 1967
- Battle Island 1936
- Site of Caney Post Office 1936
- Christ Church 1936
- Christ Episcopal Church 1962
- City of Matagorda 1936
- Site of Dream Colony of Jane McManus 1967
- Eastview Cemetery 1996
- Grove Hill Missionary Baptist Church 1996
- Hawkins Lake Home 1962
- Old Hawley Cemetery 1967
- Hensley - Gusman House 1994
- Hotel Blessing 1965
- Ira Ingram 1936
- Ira Ingram, First Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives 1965
- Masonic Lodge #411 1965
- Matagorda County 1936
- Matagorda Lodge No. 7, A.F. & A.M. 1990
- Matagorda Methodist Church 1968
- Old Matagorda Post Office 1965
- Matagorda, C.S.A. 1964
- Palacios Preparatory School
- Selkirk Island 1974
- Seth Ingram 1936
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church
- St. Francis Catholic Church 1965
- Texas Baptist Encampment Grounds 1968
- World War I and II Memorial 1964
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