Cox's Point

Historical marker location:

Point Comfort, Texas

( NE end of causeway, on SH 35, near western city limit, Point Comfort)

Marker installed: 1936

An early landing place of supplies for the interior . Captain Jack Shackelford's "Red Rovers" of Alabama disembarked at this point.

A town established her in 1836 was burned by Indians in 1840.