The Nueces River

The river that the plaque calls a boundary was a contested one. In 1689 Alonso De Leon named it Rio de las Nueces for the pecans along its banks; earlier maps called it the Rio Escondido, the hidden river, because its mouth was hard to find. From the Texas Revolution through the Mexican War the land beyond it was disputed territory. After the 1848 treaty fixed the line at the Rio Grande, the Nueces Strip took years longer to develop, and the army built Fort Ewell at a crossing of this river in 1852.

What the plaque says

The Nueces River Until 1836 this river formed the undisputed western boundary of Texas * By the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in February, 1848, the boundary line between Mexico and the United States was fixed at the Rio Grande. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brush Country Museum — 1.0 mi
  La Salle County's local museum, with a segregated-schools display that sets the scene for the Welhausen School, where Lyndon Johnson taught Mexican American children in 1928-29.
• Chaparral Wildlife Management Area — 13 mi
  A 15,200-acre South Texas brush country research tract in La Salle and Dimmit counties, open to the public in spring and summer, with a short accessible trail and a long ranching past.

More markers nearby

• The Amanda Burks School — 1.0 mi
• Cotulla's First School — 1.0 mi
• First Presbyterian Church of Cotulla — 1.0 mi
• La Salle County — 1.0 mi