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HISTORICAL MARKERS GUIDE: CALHOUN COUNTY

Cox's Point

NE end of causeway, on SH 35, near western city limit
Point Comfort

Year Marker Erected: 1936
Location: NE end of causeway, on SH 35, near western city limit, Point Comfort

Marker Text:
An early landing place of supplies for the interior . Captain Jack Shackelford's "Red Rovers" of Alabama disembarked at this point. A town established her in 1836 was burned by Indians in 1840.