Site of Caney Post Office
Matagorda County, Matagorda County, Texas
Marker Inscription
In its vicinity members of Austin's colony established pioneer sugar plantations.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This site marks the vicinity of the old Caney Post Office, in a district where members of Stephen F. Austin's colony established some of Texas's earliest sugar plantations. Along the fertile bottomlands of Caney Creek, colonial-era settlers of the 1820s and 1830s planted cane in what became one of the state's pioneer sugar-growing regions.
Why it matters
The marker roots this stretch of the Texas coast in Austin's original colony, recalling the plantation economy that helped shape early Anglo settlement of the region.
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