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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
The London School, a large structure of steel and concrete, was constructed in 1932 at a cost of $1 million (roughly $22.3 million today [3]). Its football team, the London Wildcats (a play on the term "wildcatter", for an oil prospector), played in one of the first stadiums in the state to have electric lights. [4] London School before the ...
Texas City refinery explosion (2005), an oil refinery fire This page was last edited on 29 January 2024, at 03:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Apr. 28—The Texas Department of Information Resources has awarded Harmony Public Schools the Texas CyberStar certificate for the school system's ongoing commitment to robust data protection and ...
Thick black smoke was seen rising into the air after an explosion triggered a large fire at a chemical plant in Shepherd, Texas, on Wednesday morning (8 November). San Jacinto County Office of ...
A chemical plant explosion and fire sparked a large shelter-in-place order in Texas. Smoke and flames engulfed the chemical plant on FM 1127 in Shepherd on Wednesday morning, San Jacinto County ...
Most of Texas City is served by the Texas City Independent School District, which has four elementary schools for grades K–4: Kohfeldt Elementary, Roosevelt-Wilson Elementary, Heights Elementary, and Guajardo Elementary. The TCISD intermediate school, Levi Fry Intermediate, provides for fifth and sixth graders, and one TCISD middle school ...
The explosion was heard 5 miles away from the Valero refinery and rocked buildings within a mile of the plant, according to local media reports. Valero's Texas City refinery hit by explosion, fire ...