Galveston County, Texas
Port Bolivar is home to 5 official Texas Historical Commission markers — each one telling a piece of the city’s story. Browse the markers below, then find them on the map and discover more nearby with RoadHistorical.
Headquarters for Long's Expedition which attempted to free Texas from Spanish rule in 1819. Named in honor of Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), leader in the Spanish-American War for independence. Here Mrs. Long and a small…
View on map ↗In early 1836, soon after Texas declared independence from Mexico, Republic of Texas President David Burnet dispatched Colonel Ed Harcourt to Galveston Island to erect a fort. Using army recruits and slave labor…
View on map ↗In 1815 Colonel Henry Perry established a military camp here as part of a plan to invade Spanish Texas. In 1816 Galveston-based privateer Louis-Michel de Aury forced shiploads of captured African Slaves to walk from…
View on map ↗Virginia native and Civil War veteran James A. Crenshaw wed Henrietta Barker Elliott in Kentucky in 1870. Two years later, with their first child, they moved to Bolivar Peninsula and constructed a two-story house in…
View on map ↗JANE HERBERT WILKINSON LONG (JULY 23, 1798 – DECEMBER 30, 1880) BORN IN CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND, JANE HERBERT WILKINSON LONG WAS A TEXAS PIONEER. SHE MARRIED JAMES LONG IN 1815, AND JOINED HIM IN TEXAS DURING HIS…
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