Chambers County

Chambers County has come close to disappearing. Efforts to dissolve it came in 1915, 1923 and 1925, driven by quarrels over stock laws, Prohibition and the county seat, which Anahuac won in 1908. Harris and Liberty counties sweetened the idea with offers of lower taxes, because their officials hoped to collect on the oilfields inside Chambers County. The county held together, and the oil that tempted its neighbors helped carry it through the Depression: its population reached 5,710 by 1930 and 7,511 by 1940.

What the plaque says

Chambers County Formed from Jefferson and Liberty counties. Created February 12, 1858. Organized August 2, 1858. Named in honor of General Thomas Jefferson Chambers (1802-1865), the first and only superior judge of Texas before the revolution. Member of Secession Convention of 1861. County seat, Wallisville, 1858. Anahuac first known as Chambersea, since 1908.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 24 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 30 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.

More markers nearby

• Black Education in Chambers County — steps away
• Events at Anahuac Leading to the Texas Revolution — 0.4 mi
• Lone Star Canal — 0.5 mi
• Home of Thomas Jefferson Chambers — 0.6 mi