Historical Marker
Beauregard Ranch
Historical marker location:
US 181, S of Poth, Poth, Texas
( From Poth take US 181 4.5 miles south. Marker is on west side of highway. MARKER REPORTED MISSING 3/2009.)
Marker installed: 1967
Founded 1852, by Augustin Toutant-Beauregard, of landed Creole gentry who traced lineage to 16th century Spanish nobility. Brother was Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant- Beauregard. Stone-mounted iron rings were part of scaffolding used to butcher hogs. (1967).
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