Artesian Park

Artesian Park marker

NPS

Quick Facts

Location:

524 Twigg Street Corpus Christi, Texas, 78401

Designation:

Texas Historical Commission. (Marker Number 213)

MANAGED BY:

Corpus Christi Parks Department

Amenities

2 listed

Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Parking - Auto

In 1854, Henry Kinney, Corpus Christi’s founder donated the land where Artesian Park now sits. The park is also the site where in the winter of 1845, hundreds of tents sprang up along these flats on the Corpus Christi Bay as thousands of U.S. soldiers arrived in the region in response to a territory dispute with Mexico.

The troops remained here until March 1846, when they moved southward to claim the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of Texas.