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Texas | Texas
RiversMEDIO
CREEK
Bee County,
TexasRecorded
Texas Historic LandmarkUS
59 about 4 miles NE of Beeville
Marker O.2 mile East |
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Historical
Marker Text Medio
CreekNamed
by the Spaniards about 1800 because of its midway position between the San
Antonio and Nueces Rivers. Rises in Karnes County; empties into Mission River.
Crossed by explorers, padres, soldiers, settlers who traveled on three early ox-cart
roads that led from Mexico
to Mission
La Bahia at Goliad.
The Cart War of 1857, between Texas and Mexican teamsters
on the freight route between San Antonio
and Gulf ports, originated along
San Patricio Road, southernmost of the three roads. The Mexican cart drivers used
mesquite beans as feed for their teams, starting the mesquite brush which thrives
along creek.
Settlers were attracted here by the tall grass, and many
veterans of the Texas Revolution were given bounty lands in the area. First post
office in Bee County was established in 1857 at Medio Hill pioneer community,
once a down-creek settlement. In 1909, the town of Candlish was founded within
50 feet of here, with a hotel, general store, school. The store closed; Candlish
became a ghost town.
In 1938-39 on Medio and Blanco creeks, fossil beds
yielded 1,000,000-year-old fossils of a new mastodon species (named Buckner's
Mastodon), rhinoceros, elephants,
alligators,
camels and three-toed
horses.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1967 |
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Recorded
Texas Historic Landmark
National Register of Historic Places |
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