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The municipality of Matagorda
was created during the Mexican regime in 1834, and its territory comprised
the southeast corner of the original Austin grants. The western portion was taken in December, 1835, to form the
municipality of Jackson, and after the creation of Wharton County
in 1846 the limits of Matagorda
County were fixed in their present form. The municipality was organized
as a county after
the establishment of the Republic, and the Town of Matagorda,
which was incorporated in 1837, became the county seat. A custom house had been established
at Matagorda about
1831, and it seems to have been maintained throughout the troubled period leading to the Revolution, the collections
of the port being the chief reliance of the Mexican garrisons at Goliad and San Antonio. Matagorda is at the mouth of the Colorado,
thirty miles from Pass Cavallo. the entrance to Matagorda
Bay, and while not so accessible a port as Galveston, Velasco and Lavaca,
its importance increased with the settlement of the country behind it in the Colorado Valley.
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The county seat is Bay City Towns Palacios- Blessing-Markham-Van Vleck |
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