Marker Details

Notes: U.D.C. marker erected as part of Jefferson Davis Highway plan conceived in 1913; marker circa 1927-1937; per http://www.txudc.org/jeffdavishwy.html one of only 11 markers of this type (20 noted) in the state, only one in Houston; REF. "History of the UDC" by Mary B. Poppenheim. (c) 1938 "In April 1925, the Texas State Highway Commission designated the highway from Orange to El Paso" as a link in the transcontinental highway known as the Jefferson Davis Highway." The dedication in 1927 of the boulder at Brownsville marking where Col. Jefferson Davis and his Mississippi troops landed in 1846 in the war with Mexico, was the brilliant success of the year.



"The Jefferson Davis Highway Committee recommends to this body that a granite boulder be erected at Point Isabel, Texas, marked with a bronze tablet commemorating the landing of the Mississippi troops under the command of Col. Jefferson Davis of the United States Army, in 1846, during the war with Mexico."