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COX'S
POINT , TEXASTexas
Ghost Town
Calhoun County, Texas Gulf Coast
On Cox's Bay
Marker on
Hwy 35
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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 | |
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History on
a Pinhead
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.
The marker text reads: "An early landing place
of supplies for the interior. Captain Jack Shackleford's Red Rovers of Alabama
also disembarked from this point. A town established here in 1836 was burned by
the Indians in 1840."
Cox's Point has a shared history with the neighoring
ghost town of Linnville.
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