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The port of Corpus Christi opened in 1925 after culminating efforts that began as early as 1848 to obtain a deep-water port. [6] The Port of Corpus Christi currently is the sixth largest U.S. port and deepest inshore port on the Gulf of Mexico, it handles mostly oil and agricultural products. In 2005 it was ranked as the 47th largest in the ...
Port Lavaca-based Bauer-Smith Dredging Company started construction on the first bridge in February 1949; the project was funded by $1.7 million in public bonds. [1] [2] The 4.5 mile [2] long raised roadway structure opened on 17 June 1950 as a toll road [1] and was originally called the North Padre Island Causeway; on 26 November 1963, Nueces County officials renamed it after President ...
The Nueces Hotel as seen in an illustration from the 1940s. The Nueces Hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, was a luxury hotel that also served the city as a center of social and political life during the early 20th century and was for years the largest building in Texas south of San Antonio.
Corpus Christi's Proposition A failed by 70% of the vote - the highest rejection since the Destination Bayfront initiative in 2013. Here's why.
Corpus Christi: 100 Years (Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 1952) Harland Bartholomew and Associates (1967), Comprehensive Plan: Corpus Christi, St. Louis {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Dan E. Kilgore, "Corpus Christi: A Quarter Century of Development, 1900–1925," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 75 (April 1972).
Corpus Christi (/ ˌ k ɔːr p ə s ˈ k r ɪ s t i / KOR-pəs KRIS-tee; Latin for 'Body of Christ') is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County [5] with portions extending into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties.
The county seat is Corpus Christi. [2] The county was formed in 1846 from portions of San Patricio County and organized the following year. [ 3 ] It is named for the Nueces River , which marks the county's northwestern boundary with San Patricio County before emptying into its mouth at Nueces Bay north of the port of Corpus Christi.
Early voting in the Corpus Christi City Council runoff election begins Monday. Here's who the candidates are and what they think about policies.