Historical Marker
El Lobanillo
Geneva, Sabine County · Texas
Erected 1972
Sabine County's Spanish and Mexican land grants covered about 220,000 acres, according to the Handbook of Texas, and the largest went to Juan Ignacio Pifermo in 1794: 17,713 acres. The Handbook says Pifermo received the property from Antonio Gil Ibarvo and applied for the grant that year. Boregas Creek forms its eastern boundary, and Jack Cedars, called the first Anglo settler in the region, was active on the creek in the 1790s. John Maximillian, Pifermo's son-in-law, lived in the area into the 1840s.
What the plaque says
El Lobanillo In this vicinity was historic Spanish rancho called El Lobanillo. Pueblo of Gil Ybarbo (1729-1809), where his ill mother and other refugees remained when Spain evacuated colonists from Western Louisiana and East Texas in 1773. Granted 1794 to Juan Ignacio Pifermo, and inherited in early 1800s by John Maximillian (1778?-1866), this is now known as oldest continuously occupied site in East Texas. (1972)
Where it stands
31.47594, -93.91730 · Directions
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