"Zipprian’s Corner a longtime meeting place for families, kids" By Kathleen Tatum

   Zipprian’s Corner was the site of a general merchandise store at the crossroads of Texas 60 and the road leading from Gulf to the old iron bridge crossing the Colorado River (now Selkirk Island road).      The store was in operations from about 1927 until the 1950s.

"Illinois, Iowa, Ohio colonies rose from early 1900s migrations" By Colleen Claybourn

   Illinois Colony, Iowa Colony, and Ohio Colony were “neighborhood” settlements northwest of Palacios.     They were named, obviously, for the persons who settled in their immediate areas, most of them coming south during the migrations from 1900 to 1920.

"Badouh Bros. one of Bay City’s earliest businesses" By Carol Sue Gibbs

   Among the early businesses in Bay City during the first decade of the 1900s was Badouh Bros.     The Badouh brothers, Edward M. and Anton Michael had a storefront on a 7th Street corner whose sign read Badouh Bros. General Merchandise.

‘Kit’ Williams well known for his plantation, practice

   EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. C.H. Williams was born and lived on a lower Caney Creek plantation that was near the site of the former community of Gainesmore/At Last.    The following is taken from his obituary in the Matagorda County News & Midcoast Farmer, March 28, 1916.    Dr. C.H.

Gainesmore/At Last last stop on Hawkinsville train

   Gainesmore, also known as At Last, was on Farm Road 457 seventeen miles south of Bay City in eastern Matagorda County.

"An Opinion: Luther Hotel update" By Margaret Doughty

The Luther Hotel’s first planned demolition date of Dec. 19, 2022, is long gone and The Palacios Preservation Association had more good news this week.  Judge Polly Spencer, probate judge based in San Antonio, ordered the temporary restraining order to be extended from April 4 to June 22.

Moses Morrison part of early scouting force

   Moses Morrison, one of the Old Three Hundred colonists and leader of the force some historians call the precursor to the Texas Rangers, was born in North Carolina, probably in 1793, and in 1821 moved from Missouri to Texas.

Weekly spotlight on Luther

   The Legacy of Jack Findley, deceased owner of the Luther Hotel     RE: Luther Hotel in Palacios, Texas     Jack was born in Ft Payne, Alabama. He served in the US Navy and pursued a long career as a teacher. Around 1993, he married Claire Joy Luther.

Eudora Moore taught school throughout Matagorda County

   Eudora Inez Moore, teacher and writer, the only daughter of Robert Baxter and Mary Crowell (Layton) Moore, was born in Victoria County, Texas, on Nov. 17, 1847.     The family, which eventually also included six sons, had sailed to Texas from Mobile, Ala., the previous summer.

Markers for long-unmarked Collegeport graves

   Hundreds of former Matagorda County residents lie in their last resting places with no gravestones to prove to the world they existed.     Many cemetery associations have records, but often those records don’t record the exact grave of someone buried in their cemeteries.