Ingleside

The plaque carries Ingleside to the 1890s and then hurries; the Handbook of Texas supplies the twentieth century. Developers E. O. Burton and A. H. Danforth laid out the present townsite in 1909, and a common school district with eighty pupils followed in 1913. Hatch's vineyards peaked between 1910 and 1920 and died of blight in the 1930s. Humble Oil's 1927 refinery plans brought company housing and two newspapers, the Review and the Index. Aluminum plants opened nearby in 1948 and 1950, the town incorporated in 1951, and the La Quinta Channel cut through Ingleside Point in 1954.

What the plaque says

Ingleside The Ingleside community began in the 1850s when George C. Hatch purchased land on both sides of the bayou. He later acquired 3,800 acres of land and sold land to other settlers who built homes on the bayou and Ingleside Cove. John Vineyard is credited with naming Ingleside Cove for his Scottish ancestral home. In 1854 George and Marcellus Turner settle in the area, and in 1857 Marcellus obtained a grant for the area's first post office. The Turners established the star cattle company and organized several cattle drives to northern markets. A general store was operated by Youngs Coleman. George Hatch introduced grape culture to the area, and his son John G. Hatch developed a prosperous vineyard in the 1880s. The Massi and Mircovich families were prominent in the fishing industry established here. The railway bypassed Ingleside in the late 1880s. Residents set up a new town site on the railroad in 1893, and in the early 1890s a large hotel was built on the cove. In later years, the economic base of the community was assisted by the establishment of an oil refinery, industrial development and a U.S. navy home port. The population of Ingleside grew steadily after the 1970s. (1998)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Port Aransas — 9.2 mi
  The fishing town at the north end of Mustang Island, reached by a free state ferry that crosses the ship channel day and night, with a university marine lab begun in a one-room shack.
• USS Lexington Museum on the Bay — 10 mi
  An Essex-class carrier of 1943 moored off North Beach, the Blue Ghost that Tokyo Rose kept reporting sunk, and the Navy's training carrier for nearly three decades after.
• Texas State Aquarium — 11 mi
  A nonprofit aquarium on the tip of Corpus Christi Beach built around the Gulf and the Caribbean, with the largest coastal wildlife rescue center in Texas behind the exhibits.
• Art Museum of South Texas — 11 mi
  Philip Johnson's 1972 museum on the Corpus Christi bayfront, joined in 2006 by Ricardo Legorreta's Miller Wing, holding more than 2,000 works mostly from Texas and the Americas.

More markers nearby

• Early Ingleside Schools — steps away
• Late Pleistocene Ingleside Fauna — 2.7 mi
• First United Methodist Church of Aransas Pass — 6.1 mi
• Terminal Railroad — 6.4 mi