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Maxan Street, downtown Port Isabel
It’s the mid 1920s and Point Isabel is buzzing with activity including this street improvement project on Maxan St. near the Point Isabel Lighthouse. The roadway was cleared and rebar and forms laid. Sidewalks and curbs were added. Maxan St. was the main street in Port Isabel for most tourism traffic catching the ferry to…
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Late 1970s Downtown Port Isabel
Downtown Port Isabel in the early-1980s. The 2nd Queen Isabella Causeway opened for traffic in September 1974. The traffic pattern through Port Isabel changed as a result of the new route. Garcia Street (the last street before crossing the causeway) was less traveled and Maxan Street, one block north of Highway 100 became more developed.…
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It Grew Epidemic
This is a reprint from an 1895 Detroit Free Press article about an event that happened in Point Isabel. There are a couple of subtitles that draw the reader in. “The Curious Mania Which Swept Over a Texas Town.” And this one, “Sane People Organized to Subdue the Craze Created by a Demented Preacher Who…
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Port Isabel Man, 120, Is Probably Oldest In Texas
Inocencio Rosales, Known As ‘Don Chencho’ Helped Build Lighthouse; Recalls Early Valley History The following is an article reprinted from the Brownsville Herald (August 15, 1943) by Clarence LaRoche about Don Chencho. He was a remarkable individual that embodied the spirit of what it takes to pioneer on the south Texas coast. Texas was just…
