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  2. Ashton Villa - Wikipedia

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    Making very little change to the building, the house served as their business offices and meeting hall until 1970, at which point it was put up for sale. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Under the threat of demolition, the Galveston Historical Foundation raised $125,000 (~$756,996 in 2023) to purchase Ashton Villa.

  3. Strand Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The original plat of Galveston, drawn in the late 1830s, includes Avenue B. The name 'strand' for Ave. B was coined by a German immigrant named Michael William Shaw who opened a jewelry store on the corner of 23rd and Ave. B. Shaw, not liking the name "Ave. B", changed the name of the street on his stationery to "Strand", thinking that the name (named after a street in London) would have ...

  4. Category:Houses in Galveston, Texas - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 10 October 2023, at 11:22 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Moody Mansion - Wikipedia

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    Upon Narcissa Willis' death in 1899, her daughter Beatrice put the home up for sale. [4] Libbie Moody, who lived in a home nearby the mansion, asked her husband, William Lewis Moody, Jr., to put in a bid for the mansion. After the Hurricane of 1900 devastated Galveston that September, many of the bidders pulled out of the sale. Moody won the ...

  6. Jean Lafitte Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The Jean Lafitte Hotel is a National Register of Historic Places-listed property located at 2105 Church Street in Galveston. History The Jean Lafitte Hotel was ...

  7. History of the Galveston Bay Area - Wikipedia

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    The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company was formed in New York in 1830 to promote additional settlement around Galveston Bay and other parts of southeast Texas. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The company gradually brought in many colonists from the United States and Europe, although conflict with Mexican officials over colonization laws initially made these ...

  8. Galveston Bay Area - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the 19th century Galveston remained Texas' dominant metropolis and the communities around the bay were strongly tied economically and culturally to the city though, as Houston began to develop, so did the Bay Area's ties to it. The construction of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad further spurred growth in the area. [32] [33]

  9. Samuel May Williams House - Wikipedia

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    Samuel May Williams moved to Mexican Texas in 1822 and soon began working as the secretary to Stephen F. Austin, the first empresario in Texas. [5] During the Texas Revolution (1835–1836), Williams and his business partner Thomas F. McKinney used $99,000 of their own funds to purchase supplies for the Texian Army; Williams also purchased the first ship in the Texas Navy, the schooner Invincible.

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