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Collegeport is an unincorporated community in Matagorda County, Texas, United States.Founded on May 25, 1908, Collegeport is located on the Trespalacios Bay, which outlets into the Matagorda Bay.

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History

Ranchers Jonathan Edward Pierce and Abel Brown Pierce sold their land to developer Burton D. Hurd. In the agreement Hurd would develop a town that would include a college and a port on the Trespalacios Bay. Families began relocating to Collegeport, also named the 'Town of Opportunity,' after an advertising venture by Hurd that promoted the area's mild climate and the prospective farming lands.[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txmatago/collegeport.htm Collegeport]. Collegeport is an unincorporated area community in Matagorda County, Texas County, Texas, United States.

Collegeport was acquired through a land purchase in 1908.