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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXXN_site-of-austinia_Texas-City-TX.html
Empresario Stephen F. Austin urged Mexico to improve foreign trade by establishing ports in the Galveston area as early as 1825. Historical references suggest Austinia was settled in the 1830s as part of Austin's foreign trade efforts in this area…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXXM_shoal-point-and-half-moon-shoal-lighthouse_Texas-City-TX.html
A number of families settled along Galveston Bay in the 1830s after land grants were awarded to veterans of the republic of Texas army and navy. An early community at this site became known officially as Shoal Point in 1878 when a U. S. Post Offic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXXL_william-jefferson-jones_Texas-City-TX.html
Virginia native William Jefferson Jones received his license to practice law at age 19. He was an associate of Mirabeau B. Lamar, future president of the Republic of Texas, in a Georgia newspaper enterprise. Urged by Lamar to move to Texas, Jones …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXVC_f-100f-north-american-super-sabre_Texas-City-TX.html
Military aviation evolved from those primitive beginningsOf military "flying machines" in service prior tothe First World Way and used for training in Texas City in 1913. The F-100F United States AirForce fighter represents the highlysophisticated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXV9_texas-city-memorial-cemetery_Texas-City-TX.html
On April 16 and 17, 1947, disastrous explosions aboard two ships docked at the Texas City port killed hundreds of people. In the weeks that followed, relief workers led by the American Red Cross and other volunteers labored to identify the victims…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXV8_s-s-grandcamp-anchor_Texas-City-TX.html
This anchor was blown from the S.S. Grandcamp when this ship blew up on April 16, 1947, while moored at Texas City Terminal docks. The anchor, which weighed approximately 3200 lbs. originally, was projected from the ship to a point on Pan American…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXV7_sociedad-mutualista-mexicana-in-texas-city_Texas-City-TX.html
In the 1870s native Tejanos organized Sociedades Mutualistas, mutual aid societies designed to protect their interests from the growing Anglo population of Texas. Although most of the early settlers of this area were of English, French, and German…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO6I_first-aero-squadron_Texas-City-TX.html
First tactical air unit, U. S. Army; was stationed here 1913-1915 during U. S. border troubles caused by revolution in Mexico. The 7 planes, 5 officers, and 21 enlisted men were not in combat, but made aerial maps and achieved a long distance flig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO6F_texas-city-dike_Texas-City-TX.html
In early efforts to develop a major port here on Galveston Bay, Texas City capitalists, acting against the advice of engineers, dug a ship channel directly through and across the Bay's natural water line. As a result, currents carried silt into th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO5W_anchor-from-freighter-grand-camp_Texas-City-TX.html
9:12 a. m., April 16, 1947, the French freighter Grand Camp exploded, setting off a disaster that killed 576, injured 5,000 and destroyed $67 million in property. This 10,640 pound anchor was found buried 1/2 mile from the scene of the explosion.