Hamman Oil once boasted sizable operations in Bay City

As the immediate photo below shows, the Hamman Oil Company had a sizable operation going south of Bay City beginning in 1933.

Bostwick one of earliest Old Three Hundred colonists

Caleb R. Bostwick (Bostick, Bostic), one of Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundred colonists, may have originally been from Columbia County, New York.   He moved to Texas as early as 1820 or 1821, when he traveled from Arkansas with John Ingram and the Thomas Williams family.

Wagner ‘typical country doctor’ for Palacios

Joseph Ralph Wagner wascborn on May 16, 1870, in Newman, Illinois, was the son of Dr. John Marquand (Marquin) and Sarah Ellen Wagner.  He attended public school in Newman, and was graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago.   He began his practice in 1895 in Newman.

Scott practiced medicine in Bay City for 31 years

By Dr. Gordon E. Richardson  Dr. Edward Eugene Scott was born February 20, 1867, in Lampasas, Texas.   His parents were Dr. Morgan Jackson and Harriett Kenney Scott. They were natives of Gasconade County, Missouri, both being born there in 1821.

History records how Wilson Creek church served Black community

The Wilson Creek church and school building erected in 1891 on Wilson Creek Road in Matagorda County was named Christ the Chief St. Mary Baptist Church.

Shiloh important for early Black settlers in Cedar Lane

The year 1865 was significant in the history of the early Black settlers of the present day Cedar Lane Community.   Their prayers had been answered, they now were free. Overnight, they were transformed from slaves to free community members.

"Stone’s annual exhibit highlights local African American education" by: Jessica Shepard

Time’s running out to catch Donnye Stone’s annual Black History exhibit in the Matagorda County Museum lobby.  Museum operating hours are Wednesday-Saturday from 1-4 p.m. at 2100 Ave. F in Bay City.

Vine Grove: The little church of Live Oak Community

Whether the name Grapevine Church, Home Mission Society, or Vine Grove Christian Church is used, one is still referring to a little church that once was or still exists in Live Oak Community, Matagorda County.

Karankawas probably had early campground near Live Oak Bayou

Liveoak (Live Oak) Community is near Live Oak Bayou and FM 2540, 10 miles southeast of Bay City in southeastern Matagorda County.

Caney Creek once widely traveled waterway

Caney Creek, originally named Canebrake Creek after the dense cane growth that banked its sides until white settlement of the area, rises one mile south of Matthews in Colorado County, within the maze of irrigation canals, dead-water sloughs, and old stream channels of the flat prairie near the...