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Fort Travis Seashore Park is also the historic Fort Travis, a 60 acres (24 ha) military site with bunkers. The park is located in an area known as Bolivar Point , on the extreme west side of the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County , Texas .
Camp Travis (previously Camp Wilson) on the northeastern boundary of Fort Sam Houston (five miles northeast of downtown San Antonio). Camp Wilson was renamed Camp Travis after it was chosen as the training site for the Ninetieth Division of the army (Texas-Oklahoma). The Camp Travis training facility covered 18,290 acres (7,400 ha).
Fort Travis is on the southern shore of the Bolivar Peninsula, adjacent to Port Bolivar. Originally the site of the Confederate Fort Green, with a different Fort Travis located on Galveston Island, [7] this Fort Travis started construction in 1898 and adopted the name from the Galveston Island fort. The new fort had its own railroad spur. [8]
The "Fort Travis" name was transferred across Bolivar Roads to a new fortification on Point Bolivar, the tip of the Bolivar Peninsula, which forms the east side of the entrance to the bay. An additional new fortification was built on the north east tip of Galveston Island, and was named Fort San Jacinto in honor of the final battle of the Texas ...
William Barret Travis Historical Marker in Anahuac, Texas William B. Travis, painted by Henry Arthur McArdle, years after Travis's death, using a stand-in as a model. In May 1831, upon his arrival in Mexican Texas , a part of northern Mexico at the time, Travis purchased land from Stephen F. Austin , who appointed him counsel from the United ...
English: Fort Travis, TX 87 at Loop 108 Port Bolivar This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America . Its reference number is 5000247 .
The base was renamed Travis Air Force Base in 1951 for Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, who was killed when a B-29 Superfortress crashed shortly after takeoff on 5 August 1950. The ensuing fire caused the 10,000 pounds of high explosives in the plane's cargo — a Mark 4 nuclear weapon (minus its nuclear core) — to detonate, killing ...
The following is a list of Nike missile sites operated by the United States Army.This article lists sites in the United States, most responsible to Army Air Defense Command; however, the Army also deployed Nike missiles to Europe as part of the NATO alliance, with sites being operated by both American and European military forces.