Matagorda

Year Marker Erected: 1986
Location: from Matagorda take SH 60 approximately 1 mile northeast to Matagorda Cemetery

Marker Text:
Georgia native Albert Clinton Horton came to Texas in 1834 from Alabama, where he had served in the state legislature. He established a plantation along Caney Creek in present Wharton County. In 1835, he returned to Alabama to recruit volunteers for the Texas army, and he served as colonel of a cavalry unit during the Texas revolution. (1986)