Columbus, Texas, was established in 1836, located on the strategic road built from San Antonio to San Felipe by Byrd Lockhart in 1828. Key events of the campaign for Texas independence from Mexico played out on the Colorado River near Columbus between March and May of 1836. There were two primary locations where the Colorado River could be easily forded at low water — Atascosito and Dewees’crossing). Benjamin Beason operated a crossing service called a ‘ferry’ in which some kind of a boat, from canoe to launch to raft to flatboat, could be used to assist crossings.
Click on the link below to learn about the road network and the several river crossings and army campsites that existed here in early 1836.
River crossings and army camps, Columbus, Texas, 1836
