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HISTORICAL MARKERS GUIDE: MATAGORDA COUNTY

Battle Island

Matagorda

Year Marker Erected: 1936
Location: from Matagorda take Wightman Road north approximately 3 miles

Marker Text:
Here in 1826, a company of volunteers commanded by Captain Aylett C. Buckner almost exterminated a band of Karankawa Indians who had murdered several families on Lower Caney.