Details for Bucareli

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5313011251

Data

Marker Number 11251
Atlas Number 5313011251
Marker Title Bucareli
Index Entry Bucareli
Address SH 21
City Midway
County Madison
UTM Zone
UTM Easting
UTM Northing
Subject Codes Baptist denomination; churches; settlements
Marker Year 1972
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location From Midway take SH 21 about 4 mi E to marker on N side of Rd, just W of trinity bridge.
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text In this vicinity, at Paso Tomas on the Trinity, was the Spanish town Nuestra Senora del Pilar De. Bucareli (1774-1779) Indian troubles had caused Spain to move Louisiana colonists to Bexar (San Antonio). These people, however, pled to return to East Texas, and secured the consent of Viceroy Antonio Maria Bucarelo. Led by Gil Ybarbo (1729-1809), they built at the Trinity crossing a church, plaza, and wooden houses, and grew to a town of 345 people. But ill luck with crops, a few Comanche raids, and river floods sent the settlers farther east. Again led by Ybarbo, they rebuilt the old town of Nacogdoches, 1779.