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Construction of Fort Travis began on 8 April 1898, and was completed in October 1899. The fort was named in honor of William B. Travis. [2] The federal government purchased 97 acres (39 ha) in 1898 and completed Batteries Ernst and Davis. After the 1900 Galveston hurricane a 17 feet (5.2 m) seawall was built for storm protection. Battery ...
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 lighthouse is located on the western end of the peninsula, directly across from Fort Travis Seashore Park. Fort Travis in Bolivar Peninsula, a separate facility from Fort Travis in Galveston, was built with construction starting in 1898. [5] [6] The North Jetty, extending from Bolivar Peninsula, of the entrance to Galveston Bay started ...
Location of Galveston County in Texas. 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.
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
Travis James Mullis, 38, is set to be executed Tuesday for killing his 3-month-old son, who was molested, stomped to death and abandoned at Galveston’s Seawall, a popular tourist destination ...
Emma and Travis Heim, who started Heim Barbecue in a tiny food trailer in 2015 and launched Fort Worth to fame as the best barbecue city in Texas, have stepped aside as operators of their namesake ...
Travis Smith is Fort Walton Beach through and through. Smith was born in 1984 and graduated from Choctaw High in 2002. After a year of deciding whether college was the right way for him, he chose ...