History

Contributed photo Richard Leshin, right, the attorney for the estate of the late Luther Hotel owner Jack Findley, talks with a group supporting the preservation of the hotel, before admitting them to inspect the hotel.

Contributed photo Richard Leshin, right, the attorney for the estate of the late Luther Hotel owner Jack Findley, talks with a group supporting the preservation of the hotel, before admitting them to inspect the hotel.

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Luther Hotel opens for inspection

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Thursday, May 4, 2023
   People and experts supporting preservation of the Luther Hotel were allowed inside the locked gates surrounding the hotel on April 25.

Bay City’s Coca Cola plant grand addition in 1934

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Thursday, April 27, 2023
   EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story on the 81-year-old former Coca-Cola bottling plant was taken from the Matagorda County genweb page.     At the corner of Avenue A and Texas 35, the building now is mostly shrouded by overgrown trees and plants.

Mary Wightman’s writing revealed early Texas life

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Thursday, April 20, 2023
   Mary Helm, pioneer teacher, the daughter of John Hutchinson and Janet (Henderson) Sherwood, was born on July 3, 1807, in Herkimer County, New York.      She began teaching at the age of 16 and was teaching in a district school when she became reacquainted with her former teacher, Elias R.
Photo by Margaret Doughty The Huebner Bros. Cattle Co. has been driving cattle across the Colorado River in Matagorda for over 100 years. Recently, the cattle swam from their winter pasture on the Matagorda Peninsula and landed on the banks of Matagorda Bay Nature Park before heading to their summer pasture on the family’s ranch south of Bay City.

Photo by Margaret Doughty The Huebner Bros. Cattle Co. has been driving cattle across the Colorado River in Matagorda for over 100 years. Recently, the cattle swam from their winter pasture on the Matagorda Peninsula and landed on the banks of Matagorda Bay Nature Park before heading to their summer pasture on the family’s ranch south of Bay City.

Headed for summer pasture

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Thursday, April 20, 2023
Sentinel Photo/Mike Reddell Nick Herman, standing, has made an offer for the Luther Hotel that’s gone unanswered by heirs of the property.

Sentinel Photo/Mike Reddell Nick Herman, standing, has made an offer for the Luther Hotel that’s gone unanswered by heirs of the property.

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"Save Luther attorneys prepare for hearing" by: Mike Reddell

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
    Organizers of a Community Meeting to Save Palacios’ Luther Hotel hope the momentum from Saturday, April 8, meeting will survive a Bay City probate court zoom meeting Friday, April 14 and a hearing June 22.

U.S.S. Matagorda kept patrol planes in the sky

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
   EDITOR’S NOTE: A letter was written to Darwin Williams, president of the Matagorda Chamber of Commerce, from the U.S. Navy Fleet Office in New York City about the U.S.S. Matagorda’s service during World War II.    The story was written by a member of the crew of the U.S.S. Matagorda. U. S. S.
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