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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27JV_mardi-gras-in-galveston_Galveston-TX.html
Mardi Gras was born out of a fifteenth-century European masquerade ball tradition, where guests would wear extravagant costumes and masks to conceal their identities.
The first Mardi Gras celebration in Galveston occurred in 1867 at Turner Hall, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27JU_the-tremont-houses_Galveston-TX.html
The present Tremont House is the third Galveston hotel to bear the name. The island's first Tremont House was built by the firm of McKinney and Williams in 1839 on the southwest corner of Postoffice and Tremont Streets.
An impressive two-story s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20ID_carl-and-hilda-biehl-house_Galveston-TX.html
In 1902, Galveston was still recovering from the most devastating hurricane in recorded history. Many buildings were badly damaged, including the house at 1416 Broadway. In the early 1900s, Carl Christian Biehl immigrated to Galveston from Germany…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TEP_galveston-orphans-home-historical_Galveston-TX.html
The Island City Orphans Home of the 1870s and 1880s was created to provide refuge for Protestant and Jewish children in Galveston. The orphanage operated out of its original wooden structure for the next twelve years, narrowly escaping destruction…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PDK_the-texas-navy_Galveston-TX.html
1836 - 1845
In commemoration of
The Texas Navy
that played heroic part
in the struggle of
the Texas Republic
and made headquarters at
the port of Galveston
Erected by
the Texas Society
Daughters of the American Colonists
April 21, 193…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PDJ_galveston-world-war-i-honor-roll_Galveston-TX.html
1917 Honor Roll 1918
We with uncovered head
salute the sacred dead
who went and who return not.
McDonald, Margaret · Astal, Douglas N. · Berg, George · Bone, Albert R. · Brown, William H. &middo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PCS_campeche-galveston-island_Galveston-TX.html
Discover Nature at the Beach ... the Shoreline
You stand at the shoreline of a sandy 30-mile long barrier island, one of several that edge the Texas Coast and help protect the mainland from the sea. Straight ahead of you, across 650 miles of open…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PCR_the-birds-of-galveston_Galveston-TX.html
Galveston is a narrow barrier island that hugs the upper Texas coast. This slender sliver of sand and beach hosts a precious diversity of wildlife, especially birds. Sandpipers, plovers, herons, egrets, waterfowl, gulls, terns, hawks, falcons, war…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PBY_beach-invertebrates_Galveston-TX.html
Animals without backbones are called invertebrates. Standing on the beach, wading in the surf, or swimming in the waters, you can encounter many varieties of Gulf invertebrates such as sand dollars, jellyfish, snails, crabs, and shrimp.
Sand Do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P6V_galveston-seawall-and-grade-raising_Galveston-TX.html
Following the hurricane of 1900, the greatest natural disaster of U.S. history, with the loss of 6,000 lives, civil engineers designed and built a concrete seawall and raised the elevation of Galveston Island, using pioneering materials and method…