Carlos Rancho |
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Carlos Rancho One time county seat of Refugio Co., Carlos Rancho now lies in Victoria Co. |
Don Carlos de la Garza was born at La Bahia in 1801, his father being, it appears, a military man. He was reared in a military atmosphere, and it is said that he was a soldier all of his life. In 1829 Tomasita...came with her parents to La Bahia, and the same year she and Carlos were married in the presidio church. The same year or the next the young couple moved to a place on the left bank of the San Antonio river, below La Bahia, and there established a rancho, which shortly became famous as the Carlos Rancho. Here Don Carlos and Tomasita de la Garza lived, died and were buried. Thus, four or five miles above Anaqua, an old trading post on the north side of the San Antonio River, was the Carlos Crossing of the river. On the north side of the river was Carlos Rancho, and on the south side of the river across from Carlos Rancho was the ranch home of Colonel John White Bower, who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. The old road between Refugio and Victoria crossed the San Antonio River here, and both de la Garza and Bower operated the ferry at different times. After Bower's death, his widow operated the ferry for a number of years. Bower is buried on this ranch. The Carlos Rancho became the place of refuge for Mexican Tories, during the Revolution, and was raided several times by Fannin's men. After the revolution it sheltered Texian families during Indian depredations, was the headquarters of the Texian army and General Albert Sidney Johnson, a post of Texas rangers, and on more than one occasion during the Republic the county seat de facto of Refugio County. Source: Hobart Huson, Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County from Aboriginal Times to 1953 (2 vols., Woodsboro, Texas: Rooke Foundation, 1953, 1955) |
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Land Titles Issued by Jose
Jesus Vidaurri |
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1858 Baptisms
Recorded at Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church in Refugio |
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