Marker Inscription
Most early Texas homes and towns were built along streams that provided water for people and livestock, and travel for boats said to be capable of "floating on a heavy dew". Oyster Creek served, 1822-1861, as such a homesite-highway. Its boat landings were piled high with sugar, cotton, cane and other products of some of America's richest plantations. Chocolate Bayou was an area of early-day cattle raising. These were 2 of 50 streams and 10 bays that made this coast a network of useful waterways. (1968)
About this site
Vicinity of Oyster Creek and Chocolate Bayou is a historical marker in Alvin, Brazoria County, dedicated in 1968. 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 29.3333, -95.2857 near Alvin. The nearest cataloged historic site is Liverpool Post Office (historical marker), about 2.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include Liverpool Cemetery, Callihan, Thomas Jefferson, and First Methodist Church of Alvin.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5039009545. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
