Historical Marker
Site of the Town of Linnville
Port Lavaca, Calhoun County · Texas
Erected 1936
Linn first called the place New Port. It stood on a quarter-league grant belonging to Pedro Gonzales in De Leon's colony, and like the other Lavaca Bay ports it grew up around warehouses, where goods for Victoria, Gonzales and San Antonio were stored. It became the customhouse of the District of Lavaca, held about 200 people around 1839, and listed 130 town lots for taxation in 1840, when eleven enslaved people lived there. Orceneth Fisher called it "a place of considerable business." The site is now partly under water.
What the plaque says
Site of the Town of Linnville An early Texas port named for John Joseph Linn 1798-1885 A pioneer merchant of Victoria who located his warehouse here in 1831 Around this a settlement grew up which was destroyed by Comanche Indians on August 8, 1840 Erected by the State of Texas 1936
Where it stands
28.64776, -96.65245 · Directions
More markers nearby
- Lavaca Lodge No. 36, A.F. & A.M. — steps away
- First Presbyterian Church of Port Lavaca — 2.0 mi
- First Baptist Church of Port Lavaca — 2.2 mi
- Port Lavaca — 2.2 mi