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A post office called Ohio was established in 1882, and remained in operation until 1920. [2] The community was named by settlers from Ohio who settled in the area during the early 1900s. Ohio was shown on maps until 1948. Since 1990 a few scattered houses remain in the area. [3]
in 1846, Mayor John Sydnor proposed converting the old marketplace to a combined city hall and marketplace. The old market was located on municipally-owned land on Market Street between 20th and 21st streets. Yet this plan lacked financing until the 1880s, when the city hired Alfred Muller to design a city hall.
The Strand Historic District, also known as the Strand District, in downtown Galveston, Texas , is a National Historic Landmark District of mainly Victorian era buildings that now house restaurants, antique stores, and curio shops. The area is a major tourist attraction for the island city and also plays host to two very popular seasonal ...
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Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as a landform on the Texas Gulf Coast. [4] The natural waterway inlet has a depth of 45 feet (14 m) with an island to peninsula shoreline width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km).
Seawall Boulevard is a major road in Galveston, Texas in the United States. The boulevard is conterminous with Farm to Market Road 3005 south of 61st Street. It runs along the Gulf coast waterfront of the island near the main parts of the city, and is the longest, continuous sidewalk in the United States at 10.3 miles long.