Historical Marker
El Lobanillo
Historical marker location:
SH 21, Geneva, Texas
( pullout on west side of SH 21, 0.1 mi. SE of Lee Arnold Road)
Marker installed: 1972
In this vicinity was historic Spanish rancho called El Lobanillo. Pueblo of Gil Ybarbo (1729-1809), where his ill mother and other refugees remained when Spain evacuated colonists from Western Louisiana and East Texas in 1773. Granted 1794 to Juan Ignacio Pifermo, and inherited in early 1800s by John Maximillian (1778?-1866), this is now known as oldest continuously occupied site in East Texas. (1972).