Camp Ebenezer
N 26° 11.122 W 098° 08.000
14R E 586599 N 2896501
Pioneers in the Alamo, TX area.
Waymark Code: WM1FGE
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/28/2007
Views: 26
City: Alamo
County: Hidalgo
Year Marker Erected: 1986
Marker Location: 1341 W. Business Route US 83, Alamo
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 660
Marker Text:
From 1902 to 1909 Peter Ebenezer Blalock and George L. Hawkins bought 32,000 acres of land here. By 1908 they had built shipping pens at this site and named the railroad depot Ebenezer. Their ranching plans ended in 1909 when the tract was sold to the Alamo Land and Sugar Company. Under the direction of C. H. Swallow (1868-1957), the company colonized the land after 1914. Excursion trains brought prospective farmers, housed here at "Camp Ebenezer." The depot was moved one mile east in 1919 to serve the new town of Alamo. The camp served until the 1930s as temporary housing for land buyers.
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