Brazos Santiago, TX saucer fragment.

by Daniel Schmidt
(Harlimgen, Texas)

Brazos Santiago, TX saucer fragment.:- This fragment was found last week at the civil war era site of Brazos Santiago in south Texas. This site is within several miles of the last battle of the civil war. The area is only accessable by 4x4 truck. To find this fragment my wife and I drove 30 miles to Brownsville Texas and the 20 miles east to the Gulf of Mexico. Then we had to drive 8 miles north on the sand.

When we reached the jetties at Brazos Santiago pass. from there we went 2 miles west. This is the area where the city of Brazos Santiago was located.

The pottery mark has what appears to be an American Indian working on a pot. Under the image is the word CHINA and under that is PA.. I assume that PA is Pennsylvania.

This area has more history than the civil war era. General Zachary Taylor also in this area during the Mexican American war in the 1840s.

30 miles north of this site three Spanish galleons were wrecked with many thousands of pounds of silver coins lost on padre island.

This fragment could have come from many different ears and I have been unable to find this pottery mark on any websites.

If anyone can help identify this fragment I would help in my research of this area.

Regards,
Daniel Schmidt

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