Site of Landmark Campbell's Bayou
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ggmorton
N 29° 18.246 W 094° 54.116
15R E 315278 N 3243178
A marker near the Galveston causeway.
Waymark Code: WM1E8B
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/18/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member clayj
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Marker Number: 267

Marker Text:
(1 mi east)

Settled 1821 by privateer James Campbell (1791-1856), U. S. Navy veteran, War of 1812, who after discharge was lieutenant and close friend of buccaneer Jean Lafitte, operating out of Galveston (then called Campeche).

In Karankawa Indian rituals about 1817, Mary Sabinal (1795-1884) became Campbell's bride. When Lafitte left Texas in 1821, Campbell pleased his wife by settling here as a rancher.

Community remained until its second destruction by hurricane, 1915. Graves of the Campbells and many other early Texans are in cemetery at Campbell's Bayou.

1968
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