Sabine Pass

The town of Sabine Pass is on State Highway 87 at Sabine Pass , thirty miles southeast of Beaumont in extreme southeastern Jefferson County. The townsite, first known as Sabine City, was perhaps laid out as early as 1836. The Sabine City Company, which organized the town, eventually included such notables as Sam Houston, Philip A. Sublett, George W. Hockley, John S. Roberts, Albert G. Kellogg, Niles F. Smith, and Sidney Sherman