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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BVT_west-galveston-island_Galveston-TX.html
First known to world history in the 16th century, from report of Spanish soldier Cabeza De Vaca, who was shipwrecked on this island in 1528. Area was also visited by French explorer La Salle in 1685. Second known Caucasian to live here was the buc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXN7_galveston-news-c-s-a_Galveston-TX.html
Founded 1842 by Samuel Bangs, Texas' first printer. Published after 1843 by Willard Richardson, who put up the first 4-story building in Galveston to house the offices and printing plant.
Soon after the Civil War began in 1861, cut back from a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKCC_karankawa-campsite_Jamaica-Beach-TX.html
In this area is one of several known Karankawa campsites or burial grounds. Now extinct, the nomadic Indians lived along the Texas coast, depending on the Gulf for survival. In 1528 they aided Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca, but resisted all intr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKCB_lafittes-grove_Galveston-TX.html
Fort and settlement established here in 1817 by the freebooter Jean Lafitte who maintained headquarters here while preying on shipping in the Gulf of Mexico. The Battle of the Three Trees was fought here between Lafitte's men and Karankawa Indians…