Bowie County - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Texas Historical Commission Atlas Data:
Index Entry: Bowie County
City: New Boston vicinity
County: Bowie
Subject Codes: counties
Year Marker Erected: 1936
Marker Size: 1936 Centennial - Highway Marker (pink granite)

Marker Number: 9469 Marker Text: Named for James Bowie (1799-1836), who fought for Texas freedom from 1819, when he joined the Long Expedition, to 1836 -- when he died in defense of the Alamo. Inhabited before 1800 by agricultural Indians, charted 1819 for Anglo-American settlement, this was Red River County land when Texas Republic was founded in 1836. Bowie County was created Dec. 18, 1840; organized Feb. 1, 1841. County seats: DeKalb, Old Boston, Texarkana, and Boston. Forceful citizens joined in beginning railroad construction in 1857. Economy is based on agriculture, lumber, manufacturing. Erected by the State of Texas - 1971

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