Milam County Steamboat Landing Texas Centennial Marker. (original) (raw)

"Steamboat Washington Landed Here" Centennial Marker
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2008

Texas 1936 Centennial Marker:

Steamboat Washington Landed Here

In the winter of 1850-1851 with Captain Basil M. Hatfield, commander, the Steamboat Washington landed here with a shipment of merchandise from Washington-on-the-Brazos to J. W. McCown and Co., merchants at Cameron. The first, last and only steamboat to navigate Little River.

Milam County 1920s map showing Little River and
Cameron the county seat
from Texas state map #10749
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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