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Sept. 23, 2001
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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. |
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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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