Texas Historical Marker

Battle Island

Matagorda County · placed 1936

Native History

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Matagorda County, Texas

The story

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.

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