(O.K.,
Joyce, here we go.).
I
finally went by and read the Historical Marker by D.S.I., here's what it says.
State
Historical Survey Committee. Site of former settlement of Richardson's Bluff. Home site of
Benjamin Richardson (1775?-1848?), an 1830 De Zavala Colony settler. With his sons,
Richardson operated a ferry that was of great service, Place later renamed Ford's Bluff
for a family with a mill site here in 1852. In 1894 Mannie Cox opened a local shingle mill
that was sold to Kirby Lumber Company in 1902. When Kirby built it's sawmill here in
1904, the site was renamed Evadale in honor of Miss Eva Dale, a teacher at the Southeast
Texas Male and Female College in Jasper.
