Site of the Town of Sebastopol

This Trinity River landing was first called Bartholomew. The Handbook of Texas says Russian merchants who settled here in the mid-1850s renamed it and bought cotton from local plantations, shipping it by barge down the river and then by ship from the coast to Russia. The county counted 791 enslaved people among 4,392 residents in 1860. The town was said to hold 500 people before the Civil War. Yellow fever killed many, and railroads drew off the river trade in the late 1860s. In 1936 only a fisherman's shack and the keel of the Memphis Belle remained.

What the plaque says

Site of the Town of Sebastopol Site of the town of Sebastopol, an important shipping point established in the late fifties. Named in commemoration of a naval station of Russia. Declined in importance after railroads reached this region.

Where it stands

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