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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLIV_beeville-on-the-poesta_Beeville-TX.html
Long before Mexico granted land (1834) on Poesta Creek to the first settlers, Anne Burke and James Heffernan, savage Indians roamed this valley at will.
Their colony, although successful at first, soon met disaster. In 1836 James Heffernan, hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLIO_bee-county-courthouse_Beeville-TX.html
Bee County was created in 1857 from parts of five neighboring counties. The first county seat was located seven miles east of this site, and the first commissioners court was held on the banks of Medio Creek in February 1858. The city's earliest c…