Brazos Canal

Lake Jackson

Year Marker Erected: 1986
Size: 18" x 28"
Repairs: Poor; Refinish
Location: off N. Yaupon on Crepe Myrtle just past Beachwood

Marker Text:
Chartered in 1841, the Brazos Canal Company was the result of local landowners' efforts to build canals to connect inland plantations to Gulf shipping ports. Construction began in 1847 on a canal, referred to locally as the "slave ditch" because it was dug by the slaves of company owners. A one-mile section, twenty-four feet wide and three feet deep, took to years to complete. The project was soon abandoned. A rival company, the Galveston and Brazos navigation company, completed a canal between the Brazos River and Galveston Bay in 1856. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986