Located on an island owned by Stephen F. Austin in 1832, the town of San Luis was established by the early 1830s. In 1836 the Follett family opened a boardinghouse and established a ferry service between Galveston and Brazoria County. Developers such as George L. Hammeken laid off town lots and planned for a major rail and canal connection to local plantations for shipping cotton and other local products. By 1840 San Luis was a thriving community with a population of 2,000. There were plans to build a bridge to the mainland, and a plat filed with the county clerk in 1841 outlined a city with more than fifty blocks. Storms, harbor sanding and a depressed economy made San Luis a short-lived community. By the end of the 20th century, most of the original townsite was under water due to shoreline erosion. (2000)
Site of San Luis
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Site of San Luis is a historical marker in Freeport, Brazoria County, dedicated in 2000. It is one of 125 historical markers documented in Brazoria County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 223 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.0790, -95.1300 near Freeport. The nearest cataloged historic site is Titlum - Tatlum (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Mary J. Hudgins Reeves Grave, Hudgins Cemetery, and Cannan, William Jarvis.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5039011766. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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