City of Beaumont

Before Beaumont had a name it had a family. Noah and Nancy Tevis settled on the Neches in 1824, and the bluff was called for them. A Wiess family history says Noah applied for a grant on December 13, 1834, and received half a league on January 16, 1835, then died on December 6 of that year. Nancy managed the estate, married Joseph Hutchinson on September 9, 1838, and died in 1863. The town that took Mary Beaumont's name was laid out on ground the Tevises had held.

What the plaque says

City of Beaumont City of Beaumont, Named in Honor of Mary Dewleigh Borlace Warren Beaumont by Her Husband, Henry Millard Who Laid Out the Town in 1835 on a Site Known as Tevis's Bluff, Incorporated 1838

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• McFaddin-Ward House — 5.9 mi
  A Beaux-Arts Colonial Revival mansion finished in 1906 and lived in by one family for 75 years, with free guided tours of three furnished floors, the carriage house and gardens.
• Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum — 8.1 mi
  A re-created oil boomtown on the Lamar University campus, with a derrick, period shops, a 1941 granite monument and an optional re-enactment of the January 1901 Lucas gusher.
• Village Creek State Park — 13 mi
  A 2,466-acre state park on one of the few free-flowing creeks in Texas, with a launch for the Village Creek Paddling Trail, boat rentals and sandy-upland trails in the Big Thicket.
• Museum of the Gulf Coast — 21 mi
  Port Arthur's regional museum in a former bank building: fossils, Native Americans, the petroleum story, a 125-foot history mural and Halls of Fame for musicians, athletes and artists.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Beaumont — 3.5 mi
• Texas' First Rice Mill — 5.8 mi
• Congregation Temple Emanuel — 6.3 mi
• Pandit Mehar Chand — 6.4 mi