History

Freed slave Ino Hudgins founded settlement named for him

News Staff
Thursday, January 9, 2025
   Hudgins (Hudgins Settlement) is near the site of the Robert H. Williams plantation in a section of the rich Caney Creek bottomlands once known as plantation row, a mile north of Farm Road 457 and eight miles east of Bay City in east central Matagorda County.

Merry Christmas 1937 from East side of the square

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Wednesday, December 25, 2024
   Shoppers on the east side of the square on December 11, 1937 were probably greeted with signs which said “Only 14 Days Until Christmas!”   They were grateful that the temperature which was in the 40s, was warming up a bit.

Merry Christmas 1937 from south side of the square

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Thursday, December 19, 2024
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Williams among Bay Prairie men who died at Goliad

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Thursday, December 12, 2024
   Napoleon Bonaparte Williams, soldier in the Texas Revolution, was born in 1809 to George F. and Lavinia (Hobbs) Williams.   The family moved to Texas from Connecticut.   George Williams, as a member of the Old Three Hundred, received a grant of a sitio of land on Tres Palacios Creek.

Robert Williams interests went from politics to farming

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
    Robert Harris Williams, alcalde of the District of Mina and one of Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundred colonists, son of Marmaduke “Duke” and Ede (Harris) Williams, was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, on October 10, 1796.   His siblings included Charles F. Augustus and John Williams.
Sentinel Photo/Mike Reddell Matagorda County Museum recently opened its upstairs gallery to show off its new look. The upstairs gallery features class photos from different schools in the county - some decades and eras old, some from schools that no longer exist.

Sentinel Photo/Mike Reddell Matagorda County Museum recently opened its upstairs gallery to show off its new look. The upstairs gallery features class photos from different schools in the county - some decades and eras old, some from schools that no longer exist.

Museum shows off upstairs gallery

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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