Cox's Point Texas. (original) (raw)

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

1936 Texas Centennial Marker:

Site of Cox's Point

An early landing place of
supplies for the interior

Captain Jack Shackleford's
" Red Rovers" of Alabama
disembarked at this point.

A town established here in 1836
was burned by Indians in 1840

History in a Pecan Shell

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.

Cox's Point has a shared history with the neighoring ghost town of Linnville.

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