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MATAGORDA ISLAND . Matagorda Island is a sand barrier island averaging two miles wide and about fifty miles long in Calhoun County (at 28°14' N, 96°38' W); Cavallo Pass separates the island from ... Huson, Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County from Aboriginal Times to 1953 (2 vols., Woodsboro, Texas: Rooke ...

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MATAGORDA, TEXAS . Matagorda is near the Colorado River mouth and East ... Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe line in southern Matagorda County. The community was established after Stephen F. Austin secured ... in the Runaway Scrape , but returned to form Matagorda County (1836) with Matagorda as county seat (1837). After the revolution, the ...

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MATAGORDA PENINSULA . Matagorda Peninsula is a narrow strip of land separating ... Gateway, 1974). John Columbus Marr, History of Matagorda County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1928). Junann J. Stieghorst, Bay City and Matagorda County (Austin: Pemberton Press, 1965). Rockette L. Woolridge, "Here Comes ...

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MATAGORDA COUNTY . Matagorda County (G-24) is in the Coastal Prairie region of Texas, bounded on the north ...

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MATAGORDA ISLAND STATE PARK AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA . Matagorda Island State Park and Wildlife Management Area is on Matagorda Island across from Port O'Connor in Calhoun County. The southwestern tip of the island, consisting of 11,500 acres, is ...

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EAST MATAGORDA BAY . East Matagorda Bay, off Matagorda County on the Texas coast (at 28°43' N, 95°49' W), is enclosed by the ...

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CHINQUAPIN, TEXAS (Matagorda County). Chinquapin is on an unpaved road on Live Oak Bayou just ... miles southeast of Bay City in southeastern Matagorda County. It is surrounded by swampland. It and nearby Chinquapin Bayou were ...

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WILSON CREEK (Matagorda County). Wilson Creek, formerly known as Wilson's Creek, rises 2½ ... and just north of Farm Road 2431 in northwest Matagorda County (at 28°58' N, 96°07' W) and flows south for fourteen miles; the stream ...

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MATAGORDA GAZETTE . The Matagorda Gazette was a weekly but irregularly published newspaper begun ... 1858 in Matagorda, which was at that time the Matagorda county seat. According to Texas Newspapers, 1813–1939 (1941), the ...

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ASHBY, TEXAS (Matagorda County). Ashby is off Farm Road 1095 just north of a residential ... nine miles northeast of Palacios in west central Matagorda County. Before settlers arrived, the area had been a campsite of the Karankawa ...

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