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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Galveston County, Texas. There are 10 districts, 73 individual properties, and four former properties listed on the National Register in the county. Two districts and one individually listed property are National Historic ...
August 25, 1970. Designated NHLDCP. May 11, 1976. Designated CP. May 30, 1975. Designated RTHL. 1967. The Bishop's Palace, also known as Gresham's Castle, is an ornate 19,082 square feet (1,772.8 m 2) [2] Victorian -style house, located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas.
Coordinates: 29°29′59″N 95°05′23″W. A simulated-color image of the Bay Area, courtesy of NASA. For a period of over 7000 years, humans have inhabited the Galveston Bay Area in what is now the United States. Through their history the communities in the region have been influenced by the once competing sister cities of Houston and ...
Moody Gardens is an educational tourist destination, with a golf course and hotel in Galveston, Texas, which opened in 1986. The non-profit destination, established by The Moody Foundation, [5] uses nature to educate and excite visitors about conservation and wildlife. Moody Gardens features three main pyramid attractions: the Aquarium Pyramid ...
Morgan's Point, Texas. Morgan's Point is located 30 miles southeast of Houston in southeastern Harris County, Texas, United States, located on the shores of Galveston Bay at the inlet to the Houston Ship Channel, near La Porte and Baytown. As of the 2020 census, it has 273 residents, and is located within the La Porte Independent School District.
Houston, Pasadena, League City, Baytown, Texas City, Galveston, La Porte, Seabrook, Anahuac. Galveston Bay (/ ˈɡælvɪstən / GAL-vis-tən) is a bay in the western Gulf of Mexico along the upper coast of Texas. It is the seventh-largest estuary in the United States, [2] and the largest of seven major estuaries along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Galveston (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.The community of 211.31 square miles (547.3 km 2), with a population of 53,695 at the 2020 census, [6] is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county.
The Galveston Bay Area, also known as Bay Area Houston or simply the Bay Area, [2][3] is a region that surrounds the Galveston Bay estuary of Southeast Texas in the United States, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. Normally the term refers to the mainland communities around the bay and excludes Galveston as well as ...