"Deadly outlaw captured at Markham" Matagorda County TXGenWeb (usgenwebsites.org)

Editor’s visit to Palacios in 1903 tells about train arrival that year

Palacios Baptist Academy students creative in Halloween festivities

"Illinois, Iowa, Ohio colonies rose from early migrations" By Colleen Claybourn From the Matagorda History & Genealogy Website

Yellow fever claimed a third of Matagorda

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following narrative on the yellow fever epidemic of 1862 was submitted for a state historical marker by the Matagorda County Historical Commission. Former MCHC marker chairman David Holubec made this remarkable story available.    Research and story done by Zia Miller.

Tidehaven was early port on Tres Palacios

From Matagorda County genweb www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txmatago/ 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.

PAHA to present ‘Images of Valor’ exhibit of Latinos, Latinas in WWII

PALACIOS – Beginning Sept. 28, Palacios Area Historical Association will present “Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas in World War II,” an exhibition created by the School of Journalism and Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and produced by Humanities...

Remembering when weather affected all

From Matagorda County genweb www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txmatago/    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.