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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MY_powell-arch_Galveston-TX.html
The festive arches gracing Galveston's historic Strand District are part of an imaginative civic design project undertaken in 1985 and based on temporary decorative arches constructed in 1881, when the City of Galveston hosted Saengerfest, a bienn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MO_custom-house-post-office-and-united-states-court-house_Galveston-TX.html
Authorized by The Congress of the United States * March 4, 1854 * Construction completed * March 31, 1864 * This was the first building erected by the United States of America for civil uses in the State of Texas The first session of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28MN_federal-building-1857_Galveston-TX.html
In 1854, a congressional appropriation was secured for the erection of a government building in Galveston for the customs, post office departments, the United States Court, and the United States Marshal. Three lots on the southeast corner of P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28LQ_st-marys-cathedral_Galveston-TX.html
The cornerstone for St. Mary's Cathedral was laid in 1847, the same year that the Catholic Diocese of Galveston - which included all of Texas - was established. Father J.M. Odin, the first Bishop of Galveston, traveled to Europe and secured 500,0…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28AD_norris-wright-cuney_Galveston-TX.html
Born a slave on the Waller County plantation of his father, Philip Cuney, Norris Wright Cuney was sent to Wyle Street School in Pennsylvania for an early education. At the age of seventeen he moved to St. Louis and found employment on Mississippi …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28A1_galveston-county-communities_Galveston-TX.html
Communities of Galveston County were established as follows: Algoa was named following the 1900 storm for a British Tanker which ran aground there. Alta Loma was given the Spanish Name, "High Ground," by a development company in 1893…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM288M_rabbi-henry-cohen_Galveston-TX.html
Called the "First Citizen of Texas" by U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, Rabbi Henry Cohen, an internationally known humanitarian, was born in London, England. He came to Galveston in 1888 as spiritual leader of congregation B'Nai Israel and serve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM287I_reconstruction-to-1900_Galveston-TX.html
The revival of the economic, political, social and religious institutions in Galveston County following the Civil War, was more rapid than anywhere in the south. Galveston emerged as the largest city in Texas and with its natural seaport, became t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM287H_dignified-resignation-a-war-memorial_Galveston-TX.html
Erected to the Soldiers and Sailors of the Confederate States of America by The Veuve Jefferson Davis Chapter No. 17, United Daughters of the Confederacy 1911 Galveston Texas "There has never been an armed force which in purity o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27N6_original-site-of-st-marys-orphan-asylum_Galveston-TX.html
Children orphaned by a yellow fever epidemic in 1867 were cared for temporarily in Galveston's St. Mary's Infirmary by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. In 1874 Galveston Bishop Claude Dubuis bought the 35-acre plantation and home of…
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