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Mitchell was born to Greek immigrant parents in the port city of Galveston, Texas in 1919. [2] His father, Savvas Paraskevopoulos, was from the village of Nestani in Arcadia, tended goats before immigrating to the United States in 1901, arriving at Ellis Island at the age of 20.
Map of Galveston in 1871 Galveston City Railway Company c 1894. At the end of the 19th century, Galveston was a booming metropolis with a population of 37,000. Its position on the natural harbor of Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade in Texas and one of the largest cotton ports in the nation, in competition with New Orleans. [22]
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.
Originally the Tremont Opera house, some of the walls were retained when it was re-designed as the E.S. Levy department store in 1896. The building was built for E.S. Levy & Co. and Ed S. Levy. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 2003. The building is located at 2221-2225 Market Street.
Tremont House (Bellevue, Ohio), on the National Register of Historic Places; Tremont House (Boston), the first hotel with indoor plumbing; Tremont House (Chicago), 1860 Republican National Convention Headquarters; Tremont House (Galveston), a historic hotel in the Strand Historic District
The Broadway Cemetery Historic District, also known as the Broadway Cemeteries, is a six-block collective of seven separate cemeteries in the city of Galveston, Texas, covering an area of 15.27 acres (6.18 ha). [2]
The East End Historic District encompasses a large 19th-century residential area in eastern Galveston, Texas. The area is roughly bounded by Broadway to the south, Market St to the north, 19th St to the west, and 9th street to the east. The area has one of the best-preserved and largest concentrations of 19th-century residential architecture in ...
After the Texas Revolution, Mason moved to New York, but returned to Texas multiple times during the 1840s. [3] He traveled to Texas for the last time in 1849. [ 3 ] Mason died of cholera on May 3, 1850, at Tremont House in Galveston .