Garcitas Creek

The Garcitas Creek is a river of the Texas which takes its source in the south-east of the county of DeWitt (with 29°03' NR, 97°05' O) and runs towards south-east on approximately 60 kilometers to its mouth in the Lavaca Bay (with 28°43' NR, 96°40' O).

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It is the principal system of drainage of the county of Victoria and constitutes the border between the county of Victoria and Jackson on her the last 20 kilometers. Its principal affluents are Arenosa, Marcado, Blanca Put it, and Willow creeks.

History

The name of Garcitas, was given to him later by the Mexicans, it acts of an alternative of the Spanish word garcetas which means " andouillers" , ramifications of the wood of a stag, undoubtedly because of the sinuous shape of the river. Garcitas Creek is the river on which Rene Robert Cavelier of the Room had established the Fort Saint Louis in 1685. At the time the Room the river of the oxen had baptized it then Spanish named it Río of los Franceses (the river of French)

In March 1836 during the Révolution texane, the river was used as hiding-place with the trading vessel of John J. Flax that the Mexicans sought. What enabled him later to evacuate Harrisburg and to supply Sam Houston at the time of the Bataille of San Jacinto. During the American Civil War, the Company has, of 13th of cavalry of Texas, one of the three company of the county of Victoria who served in the Confederated Armée, was gathered along Garcitas Creek, on April 13rd 1862, by Dr. James P.B. January, a veteran of the Révolution texane and américano-Mexican Guerre.

Sources

  • The Hiring off Salle' S Colony one the GULF off Mexico City ; Herbert Eugene Bolton; The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 2 (September 1915); rpt., Southwestern Historical Quarterly 27 (January 1924).
  • 300 Years in Victoria County ; Roy Grimes, ED. ; (Victoria, Texas: Victoria Advocate, 1968; rpt., Austin: Nortex, 1985).
  • Reminiscences off Fifty Years in Texas ; John J. Flax; (New York: Sadlier, 1883; 2d ED., Austin: Steck, 1935; rpt., Austin: State House, 1986).
  • The Presidio Bahía del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga, 1721 to 1846 ; Kathryn Stoner O'Connor; (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1966).

External bond

  • Strong Saint-Louis on texasbeyondhistory.net
  • Garcitas Creek on the U.S. Geological Survey

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