Site of Caney Post Office

The plaque says only that pioneer sugar plantations grew up near here. The county's numbers show what that meant. In 1850 Matagorda County made 1,394 hogsheads of sugar, with 1,208 enslaved people among its 2,124 residents, and planters from Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia brought in more between 1850 and 1855. The state's largest sugar mill went up in the county before 1860. By 1860 about six in ten residents were enslaved, 2,107 of 3,454, and John Duncan held 75 of them and James B. Hawkins 101. The Caney post office served from about 1838 to 1914.

What the plaque says

Site of Caney Post Office In its vicinity members of Austin's colony established pioneer sugar plantations.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 19 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.

More markers nearby

• Lukefahr School Community — 2.5 mi
• Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi
• Vine Grove Christian Church — 5.2 mi
• First Christian Church of Bay City — 5.7 mi