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Historical
Marker:
Medio Creek
Named by the Spaniards
about 1800 because of its midway position between the San
Antonio and Nueces Rivers. Rises in Karnes
County; empties into Mission River. Crossed by explorers, padres,
soldiers, settlers who traveled on three early ox-cart roads that
led from Mexico
to Mission
La Bahia at Goliad.
The Cart War of 1857, between Texas and
Mexican teamsters on the freight route between San
Antonio and Gulf
ports, originated along San Patricio Road, southernmost of the
three roads. The Mexican cart drivers used mesquite beans as feed
for their teams, starting the mesquite brush which thrives along creek.
Settlers were attracted here by the tall grass, and many veterans
of the Texas Revolution were given bounty lands in the area. First
post office in Bee County
was established in 1857 at Medio Hill pioneer community, once a down-creek
settlement. In 1909, the town of Candlish was founded within 50 feet
of here, with a hotel, general store, school. The store closed; Candlish
became a ghost town.
In 1938-39 on Medio and Blanco creeks, fossil beds yielded 1,000,000-year-old
fossils of a new mastodon species (named Buckner's Mastodon), rhinoceros,
elephants,
alligators,
camels
and three-toed horses.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1967 |
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