Site of the Town of Bevilport

Bevilport had a main street and a hotel by the 1850s, and the Handbook of Texas says it served as the freight depot for northern Jasper County in high water. The same entry says Sam Houston bought the first lot, a post office opened in 1854, and the post office closed for good in 1899. Logging for Beaumont sawmills in the 1870s obstructed river traffic below the Angelina's meeting with the Neches, and the town faded. By 1948 only two old store buildings and the Randolph C. Doom house, built in 1852, remained, the entry reports.

What the plaque says

Site of the Town of Bevilport Important river navigation point, 1830-1860. Established by John Bevil in whose honor the municipality was first named in 1834 with Bevilport as seat of justice. A mail station in 1835. County seat of Jasper County, 1836-1837. Incorporated June 5, 1837. A business and social center until the Civil War. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Martin Dies, Jr. State Park — 5.8 mi
  A 705-acre state park on Steinhagen Reservoir at the meeting of the Neches and Angelina rivers, with about 14 miles of paddling trails through sloughs and more than 200 campsites.

More markers nearby

• Dixie Baptist Church — 1.9 mi
• Here Lived Dr. Stephen H. Everitt — 1.9 mi
• Dixie Freedom Colony — 2.1 mi
• Bevilport — 5.1 mi