Live Oak County
N 28° 18.527 W 098° 06.820
14R E 586898 N 3131727
The creation of Live Oak County
Waymark Code: WM1FM3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/28/2007
Views: 21
City: George West
County: Live Oak
Subject Codes: CO;
Year Marker Erected: 1936
Designations: na
Marker Location: from George West take US 281 south about 1.4 miles south marker is on east side of highway
Marker Size: 36' Centennial - Highway Marker (pink)
Marker Number: 3104
Marker Text:
Created by legislature Feb. 2, 1856, and organized August 4 with Oakville as county seat. Formed from San Patricio and Nueces Counties. Named for its Live Oak trees. County seat moved, 1919, to George West on railroad. Center for ranching, farming, petroleum production and processing. Recreation areas include Tips State Park and Lake Corpus Christi. Historic sites are Fort Ramirez, first settlement; Fort Merrill, built 1850 to protect early settlers; Brownsville-San Antonio Oxcart Road, used by general Santa Anna on the way to the Alamo. Other sites marked.
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