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Aransas
City, Lamar, Copano fought it out
Aransas
City
1850s and became the domi-
nant southern ports for about
30 years. Most of the long-
leaf pine lumber used in south
and central Texas came from
Florida through St. Mary’s.
Indianola received a large
U.S. Army contract as the port
for military supplies for forts in
Texas. Neither one was a deep
water port, but relied on long
wharves to reach even eight
to 10 feet of water. Still they
grew to have populations in
the range of 4000 to 8000. Both
St. Mary’s and Indianola were
devastated by a series of hur-
ricanes in the 1880s and were
abandoned by the early 1890s.
They were supplanted by
Rockport and Corpus Christi,
at that time also shallow water
ports. Lamar still exists but not
as a port.
Herndon Williams is affiliat-
ed with the Bayside Historical
Society and the Refugio County
Historical Commission. He is
the author of the book, “Texas
Gulf Coast Stories,” pub-
lished in December 2010 by
The History Press. His second
book, “Eight Centuries on the
Texas Frontier,” was published
in May 2013. Email at chern-
don8695@sbcglobal. net.
Lamar,
Copano, and Linnville all com-
peted to be the major port in
south Texas long before St.
Mary’s of Aransas, Indianola,
Rockport and Corpus Christi
were on the map. This hap-
pened in the early days of the
Republic of Texas, starting in
1837.
Antonio). And Copano was the
port of entry for the Irish colo-
nists who arrived in the early
1830s.
But there was no town or
wharf at Copano until the
1840s. Capt. Monroe reported
small, half-finished frame
house” on the Copano beach
in 1834 which served as a
Mexican customs shack; the
customs master lived in La
Bahia.
Coastal Bend
Chronicles
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By C. Herndon Williams, Ph.D.
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In that period, land titles
were uncertain because the
Republic of Texas claimed own-
ership of all vacant lands.
The Republic was giving land
script for parcels of 640 acres
of vacant land to colonists and
Texan Army veterans. The
scripts were sold, traded and
amassed by some land specula-
tors. Even former empresarios
were required to submit sur-
veys of their original Mexican
grants in order to retain title.
In this atmosphere, the
empresario, James Power,
decided in 1837 to establish
a port on his land on Live
Oak Point at the entrance to
Copano Bay. He named this
port Aransas City since it was
near the site of the old Spanish
Fort Aranzazu.
Both were built near Live
Oak Springs, about four miles
north of present day Fulton.
In 1839, the Congress of the
Republic of Texas approved the
incorporation of Aransas City,
with Power as mayor, and also
established the Custom House
there.
Power built a wharf and the
population surged to about 98
families. Power was a business
partner with Joseph Smith
until the latter managed to
litigate away Power’s land on
Copano Bay where St. Mary’s
would be built. The competi-
tion with other nearby ports
and raids by Comanche and
Karankawa caused Aransas
City to be abandoned by 1847.
At about the same time
(1837), James Byrne, a Power
colonist
Lamar, within sight of Aransas
City on the other side of Copano
Bay.
Byrne named his town
for Mirabeau B. Lamar, the
President of the Republic of first house in Copano in 1840
Texas at the time and Lamar and James Power moved his
Joseph Plummer built the
even helped lay out the town.
home to Copano in 1850 after
Aransas City was abandoned.
Byrne built a wharf and in
1839 he petitioned the Republic At Peak, Copano had about
to move the Customs House a dozen shell crete buildings, a
wharf and the shortest route
from Aransas City to Lamar on
the basis that Lamar had more by ox cart and mule train to La
Bahia and Bexar.
population (it did not).
This caused it to be a port
President Lamar ruled in
Byrne’s favor, but the Customs °f entry for elements of the
House was moved back to Mexican Army and American
Aransas City a year later, volunteers during the Texas
Lamar prospered until it was Revolution in 1836. Copano
destroyed by Union navy bom- prospered until about 1870, but
bardment in the Civil War.
eventually was surpassed by
St. Mary’s of Aransas (founded
in 1857).
Both Copano and Black Point
had served since 1750 as land-
ings on Copano Bay for passen-
gers and goods destined for La Indianola (on Matagorda Bay)
Bahia (Goliad) and Bexar (San were both founded in the mid-
establishing
St. Mary’s of Aransas and
was
Federal judge sides with plaintiffs in state Planned Parenthood case
Texans and Human Services
who rely on Planned from eliminating funding
Parenthood as a medical for Planned Parenthood
AUSTIN
sions for the federal jus-
tice and education depart- the teaching certificate of
ments on Feb. 22 issued any teacher on deferred
a joint “Dear Colleague” adjudication for sexual
guidance letter reversing misconduct or on the sex
the controversial move offender registry; and
last May.
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State Capitol
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care provider won’t have in the state’s 2017-18
to seek those services budget,
elsewhere, pending an
upcoming trial.
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“There is no legitimate
public interest in allow-
ing Texas to complete its
planned terminations (of
funding) based on the cur-
rent facts,” wrote Sparks.
“Instead, the public inter-
est favors enforcing the
individual
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Require school dis-
In late August, a Fort tricts to enact polices and
training addressing con-
court enjoined nation- tact between students and
wide enforcement of the teachers on the Internet
Obama administration’s and social media,
directive.
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By Ed Sterling
Texas Press Association
In the lawsuit titled
Planned Parenthood
et al. v. Texas Health
and Human Services
Worth federal district
Commission, U.S. District
Judge Sam Sparks of
Austin on Feb. 21 grant-
ed a preliminary injunc-
Department of Health
and Human Service’s
termination of Planned
Ken Paxton expressed
disappointment in the
ruling and said he plans
to file an appeal.
‘Bathroom bill’
continues
The Trump adminis-
tration has reversed last
year’s Obama administra-
tion move to allow trans-
gender students to use
the bathrooms and locker
rooms of their choice.
The civil rights divi-
Legendary jurist dies
Noted Texas jurist Jack
Bill 6 by Lois Kolkhorst, p0pe of Austin died at age
R-Brenham, is awaiting 103 on Feb. 25.
a hearing by the Texas
Senate’s State Affairs
plaintiffs’
,. , , , i „ rights and avoiding dis-
tion to prevent the Texas mpting the health care of agreements likely vio
Department of Health some of Texas’ most vul- lates federal law.
nerable individuals.”
Sparks found that an
injunction would ensure
that Medicaid recipients
in Texas “will continue
to have access to medi-
cal care at their chosen
providers” and the Texas
Meanwhile, Senate
Parenthood’s provider
Born in Abilene in 1913,
Pope helped establish for-
mal judicial education for
Texas judges, fought for
a voluntary judicial eth-
ics code when judges had
none and fought again to
make that code manda-
Sparks ordered the
plaintiffs and defendants
to work out a schedule
for presenting arguments
within 30 days. The court
will then schedule a trial
date.
Texas Attorney General
Committee.
Mathis
News
The state legislation,
considered a high prior-
ity by Gov. Greg Abbott
and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick,
would require trans-
gender students to use
facilities that match the
biological sex they were
assigned at birth.
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lation that would prevent the longest of any Texas
a teacher fired for sexual Supreme Court justice,
misconduct m one school
district from getting hired
by another district.
“We have to remove any
possible obstacle to iden-
tify teachers or educators
with this problem and
pull their license,” said
Sen. Paul Bettencourt,
author of Senate Bill 7.
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veyed by Spanish and
Mexican land grants
changed Texas water law
forever. As chief justice
he forged a way to guar-
antee income to finance
legal assistance for the
poor. Concerned with
Create criminal double litigation in the
penalties for any superin- same case, he won legisla-
tendent or principal who five support for statutory
fails to notify the state of changes to thwart “forum
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