This landmark serves to be a remeberance of Kinney's legacy of the establishment of Corpus Christi. Kinney brought settlers and business to Corpus Christi which is still present today. I was interested in this marker because I had seen a photo of a ton of tents set up in a uniformed formation on a beach in the Central Library. I soon realized that Kinney and his group of men established a relation ship with the global economy at that time. Some of these realtionships were from Spain, France, and Germany. This makes me realize that Corpus is very enriched in many diversed cultures and it is nice to know that we were not kept to ourselves, because I know we have spread our culture on to many.
Cool Fact: Kinney's Trading Post was asked to house former slaves by an active abolitionist.
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