Bee

Skidmore, TX

Earliest known residents were Karankawa Indians who named creek.

Beeville, TX

Statesman, soldier and ambassador, Barnard Elliot Bee, Sr., was a significant figure during Texas’ years as a republic (1836-45).

Pettus, TX

1936 plate: Created a county largely from San Patricio in 1857 Organized in 1858.

Beeville, TX

Long before Mexico granted land (1834) on Poesta Creek to the first settlers, Anne Burke and James Heffernan, savage Indians roamed this...

Beeville, TX

The first post office was established in Beeville in 1859, the year after the town's founding.

Beeville, TX

Benjamin Dudley Tarlton Dougherty (1923-1978) was born to James Robert and Genevieve Tarlton Dougherty of Beeville, where his father...

Beeville, TX

One of builders of Southwest.

Beeville, TX

The Commercial National Bank of Beeville traces its history to January 1893 when several prominent citizens met to organize a financial...

Beeville, TX

From pack trails and wagon roads that marked this area at least 300 years, have developed such modern roads as U.S. Highway 181.

Beeville, TX

Oldest business structure in Beeville, erected about 1867 on east side of courthouse square, near Poesta Creek.

Normanna, TX

Settlement dates from about 1850.

Beeville, TX

A few yards south passes Papalote Creek, crossed by the fierce Karankawa Indians who found kite-shaped pebbles and named it Papalote,...

Pettus, TX

Oil capital of Bee County, Pettus was settled in the 1850's when John Freeman Pettus set up his sprawling ranch about 4 miles south of here.

Tuleta, TX

The Rev. Peter Unzicker led a group of Illinois settlers here in 1906.

Beeville, TX

In the years before Texas became an independent republic, Hispanic and Irish settlers established ranches and farms in this area.