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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28IC_capture-of-the-uss-morning-light-and-uss-velocity_Port-Arthur-TX.html
After Texas seceded from the Union at the onset of the Civil War, the state's ports were included in a Union blockade of the South. The proximity of Sabine Pass to Galveston made it a strategic point for both the Union and Confederacy. In January …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28I8_united-states-forces-at-the-battle-of-sabine-pass_Port-Arthur-TX.html
Federal forces in the Civil War failed in most of their early efforts to capture Texas. In the fall of 1863, after taking New Orleans and Vicksburg, their leaders attacked Western Louisiana in a renewed effort. They wished to divert valuable stock…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28I7_federal-fatalities-at-the-battle-of-sabine-pass_Port-Arthur-TX.html
The Civil War battle at Sabine Pass on September 8, 1863 was a victory for Lieutenant Richard W. Dowling and his troops, which numbered fewer than 50. Dowling and his Davis Guards kept Union gunboats from advancing up the pass. The U.S.S. Clifton …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28HB_commodore-leon-smith_Port-Arthur-TX.html
Maine native Leonidas Smith (b. 1829) became a sailor as a youth and, by age 21 commanded the U.S. Mail Packet Pacific along the west coast. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, he was sailing out of Galveston, Texas. He served as volunteer n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28GQ_spaights-11th-battalion_Port-Arthur-TX.html
Commanded by Col. Ashley W. Spaight, the 11th Battalion of Texas Volunteers, Confederate States Army, was nicknamed the "Swamp Angels." Tracing its origins to the "Sabine Pass Guards" militia formed in 1861, the battalion served during the Civil W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28GH_city-of-sabine-and-sabine-pass_Port-Arthur-TX.html
The first known settlers in this area were John McGaffey and Thomas Courts, who arrived in 1832. Sam Houston assisted Manuel de los Santos Coy in acquiring a land grant here in 1833. Two years later Houston and two partners purchased Coy's propert…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28GB_fort-sabine_Port-Arthur-TX.html
During the Civil War, the Sabine Pass Channel was a strategic gateway to the interior of eastern Texas and western Louisiana, control of which was vital. Fearing a possible Union invasion, the citizens of Sabine City (later Sabine Pass) formed a &…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28G7_1886-hurricane-at-sabine-pass_Port-Arthur-TX.html
In October 1886, Sabine Pass was the second largest town in Jefferson County, boasting a new rail line and an optimistic outlook on continued growth as a major coastal port. On the afternoon of October 12, just two months after a hurricane had des…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28FK_jefferson-county-courthouse_Beaumont-TX.html
The first county building constructed at this site was a jailhouse completed in 1838, two years after the organization of Jefferson County. Located on land acquired from Nancy Tevis, a pioneer settler of the area, it also housed county offices and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28FF_beaumont_Beaumont-TX.html
County seat of Jefferson County. Settled in 1825 as Tevis Bluff; incorporated as Beaumont Dec. 16, 1838. Early trading post, riverboat port, lumber, rice and ranching center. Near site of Spindletop gusher, where oil became an industry, ushering i…