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Old Railroad Depot
Located at 211 Matagorda St. between Orleans and Mobile Streets

It was constructed around 1903 and is a late Victorian style one-story wood frame, rectangular building with a gable roof and stick bracketing supporting eaves, pedimented moldings over windows, asymmetrical arrangement of doors and windows. It is significant because of its unusual design. It was an early Matagorda railroad depot and was moved from its original site and converted to multi-family residential use. Since being built, the porches have changed and it has been moved. Roof is constructed of wood shingles and has lap siding.

St. Peter's Baptist Church
Located at the corner of Austin and Cedar, Matagorda

The marker reads:
Though early records for St. Peter's Baptist Church were lost in heavy storms, the church is likely to have been organized by area African Americans in the 1870s. The heirs of Samuel Rhoads Fisher, who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, deeded land on this site to the trustees of St. Peter's Baptist Church in 1879. After the St. Peter's Church building burned in 1928, members of the Matagorda Baptist Church gave their building to the St. Peter's congregation. In 1998 St. Peter's Baptist Church continues to worship in the traditions of their founders.

 

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