Historical Marker
Gaines County
Seminole, Gaines County · Texas
Erected 1936
Gaines was a double first cousin of Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, and in 1803-04 the two surveyed lands along the Natchez Trace for President Jefferson. Tall, red-haired and red-faced, he was Captain Colorado to the Alabama and Coushatta men he commanded in the Gutierrez-Magee expedition against Spanish rule. His ferry on El Camino Real was said to have carried four-fifths of the colonists across from the United States. He opposed Haden Edwards in the Fredonian Rebellion, and in 1836 he sat on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
What the plaque says
Gaines County Created August 21, 1876. Organized October 24, 1905. Named for James Gaines. Born in Virginia in 1779. Established a ferry across the Sabine River in 1819, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Congress of the Republic. Gold lured him to California where he died. A country of cattle, oil and farming. Seminole, the county seat.
Where it stands
32.71834, -102.64467 · Directions
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