From Bay City, Hadnott went to statewide fame in anesthesiology

    Dr. William Hicks Hadnott, Jr., the fourth child and first son of William Hicks Hadnott, Sr. and Marjorie O’Neil Hadnott, was born June 13, 1928 in Beaumont, Texas.     He departed from this life on Saturday, August 28, 2010.

Moore House built for a prominent leader

   The D.P. and Louise Moore home was built on block 60 in 1902 by builders Hatchett and Large.     The land was purchased from David Swickheimer on Nov. 20, 1894.     Lots 4 - 9 - 2404 Ave. E - were for the homesite, and the other half was used for pasture.

Texian Navy Day Celebration and Commissioning Ceremony

   Sept 16 2023, 11 a.m.    Matagorda Harbor Pavilion (East side)    Welcome remarks by Admiral Craig Hlvinka, Harbor Master and also Texas Historical Commission Marine Steward.     Master of Ceremonies - Admiral Chris Barbee, Mayor of El Campo.

Samuel Fisher lived a complicated life of business, politics

   Samuel Rhoads Fisher, secretary of the Texas Navy during the republic era, was born in Philadelphia, Penn. on Dec. 31, 1794.     He was reared and educated in the best schools of that city.        He began life as a government employee in the Naval Stores of Philadelphia.

Jane Cazneau was the only lady colonizer in Texas

   CAZNEAU, JANE MARIA ELIZA MCMANUS (1807–1878).    Jane Cazneau [pseuds.: Montgomery, Cora Montgomery, Corrine Montgomery], journalist, author, promoter, and unofficial diplomat, daughter of William Telemachus and Catharina (Coons) McManus, was born in or near Troy, New York, on April 6, 1807.

"Natham Blum installed 1st TVs in Bay City, Palacios" By Katherine Pollard Carter

   What’s wrong with your car radio?” Nathan Blum, owner of Radio Center on Nichols Avenue, asked his distraught customer.  “It cuts off if I go over a bump or around a corner or up a hill or down a hill and it’s too full of static to understand a program,” the customer wailed.

Memories of the family home at Rotherwood

Rotherwood    Mary L. White was born in 1815 in Knoxville, Tenn., whence she came with her father, the late B.J. White, to Texana, Jackson County, Texas in 1830.     Mr. White settled first with his family on the Navidad.     In 1833 she was married to Colonel Robert H.

Tidehaven was early Tres Palacios River port

   Tres Palacios, also known as Tidehaven, was a port community on the Tres Palacios River south of Hawley and near what is now Farm Road 459, thirteen miles southwest of Bay City in western Matagorda County.