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HISTORICAL MARKERS GUIDE: MATAGORDA COUNTY

Hotel Blessing

Blessing

Year Marker Erected: 1965
Designations: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Location: corner 10th and FM 616; Blessing

Marker Text:
Built 1906 for landseekers, as well as a family home for prominent developers, Jonathan E. Pierce and son, Abel B. Pierce. Town and hotel were named out of gratitude for era of railroads and gulf coast development. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965