History

Sentinel Photo/Jessica Shepard Donnye Stone's annual Black History Month exhibit is up for viewing at the Matagorda County Museum. Titled "Black Cowboys of Matagorda County" it features overall historical facts and surnames of local cowboys from Matagorda County.

Sentinel Photo/Jessica Shepard Donnye Stone's annual Black History Month exhibit is up for viewing at the Matagorda County Museum. Titled "Black Cowboys of Matagorda County" it features overall historical facts and surnames of local cowboys from Matagorda County.

"Stone’s ‘Black Cowboys of Matagorda County’ Black History Month exhibit" by: Jessica Shepard

   “Cowboys in Black Skin” is the theme of Donnye Stone’s annual Black History Month exhibit in the lobby of the Matagorda County Museum for February.      Stone’s exhibit includes names of several famous cowboys and Matagorda County cowboys.

Mount Pilgram Missionary: On Caney, before recorded history

   The story of the Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church membership began prior to the earliest recorded history – on the bank of Caney Creek, during a journey through slavery.     During the earliest period slaves who could, gathered to worship in their quarters or under trees.
Isaac Van Dorn

Isaac Van Dorn

Van Dorn was 1st elected sheriff of Matagorda County

   Isaac Van Dorn (Vandorn), one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, was born in Pennsylvania about 1801.     At the age of fourteen he was indentured to a farmer for seven years, whom he eventually left.

Remembering when weather affected all

   EDITOR’S NOTE: Given the regular schedule of at least some rainfall, it’s interesting to note that wet weather has long been on Matagorda County residents’ minds.

1939: Coca Cola high in pure value contents

   Palacios Beacon, Oct. 19, 1939    The Coca Cola Bottling Company in Bay City on Highway No. 35 was built in 1934 and serves the entire coast line area from Freeport through Palacios reaching inland from 30 to 50 miles.

Bay City’s Coca Cola plant grand addition in 1934

   EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story on the former Coca-Cola bottling plant was taken from the Matagorda County History and Genealogy Page.     At the corner of Avenue A and Texas 35, the building now is mostly shrouded by overgrown trees and plants.