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Live Oak County

  Texas Historical Markers
US 281, s. of George West, George West, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 28° 18' 29.88348000012", -98° 6' 49.05912999996"
 
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    Created by legislature Feb. 2, 1856, and organized August 4 with Oakville as county seat. Formed from San Patricio and Nueces Counties. Named for its Live Oak trees. County seat moved, 1919, to George West on railroad. Center for ranching, farming, petroleum production and processing. Recreation areas include Tips State Park and Lake Corpus Christi. Historic sites are Fort Ramirez, first settlement; Fort Merrill, built 1850 to protect early settlers; Brownsville-San Antonio Oxcart Road, used by general Santa Anna on the way to . Other sites marked.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Live Oak County Historical Marker Location Map, George West, Texas