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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 |
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.
See The
Great Comanche Raid and the Battle of Plum Creek by Jeffery Robenalt |
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