Historical Marker
Calhoun County
Port Lavaca, Calhoun County · Texas
Erected 1936
Industry remade the county after the Second World War. An Aluminum Company of America plant that employed 2,600 workers opened at Point Comfort in 1947, and a Union Carbide plant near Seadrift followed in 1952; it still employed 1,400 people in 1980. The population rose from 5,911 in 1940 to 17,831 in 1970. In 1988 Formosa Plastics of Taiwan, encouraged to locate here to improve employment, opened a petrochemical plant at Point Comfort, and controversy over its environmental practices followed. In 2014 the county counted 21,797 people, 47.6 percent of them Hispanic.
What the plaque says
Calhoun County, Formed from Victoria, Jackson, and Matagorda Counties, Created April 4, 1846, Organized July 13, 1846, Named in Honor of Joyn Caldwell Calhoun, 1782-1850, a Distinguished Southern Statesman, A Member of Congress and of the Cabinet, Vice-President of the United States, 1825-1832, Port Lavaca, The County Seat
Where it stands
28.62261, -96.72223 · Directions
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