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Crystal Beach is an unincorporated community in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States. Also known as Patton, Crystal Beach stretches 7 miles (10 km) along Texas State Highway 87 in the middle of Bolivar Peninsula. [1] Crystal Beach is located along 27 miles of beach on the Bolivar Peninsula.
Covington was founded by European immigrants to the United States. It was incorporated in 1821 as the seat of the newly organized Newton County. [6] Covington was named for United States Army Brigadier General and United States Congressman Leonard Covington, [7] a hero of the War of 1812. The settlement grew with the advent of the railroad in 1845.
Crystal Beach may refer to one of the following locations: Crystal Beach, Ontario, community in Fort Erie, Ontario; Crystal Beach Park, amusement park in Crystal Beach, Ontario from 1888 to 1989; Crystal Beach (Nepean), community located in Ottawa, Ontario; Crystal Beach, Texas, historical beachfront near Galveston Bay, Texas
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The Anschutz family of Denver, Colorado, owns two resorts with limited public access and maintains a gated community for around 500 single-family residences. The resorts, Sea Island Beach Club and The Cloister, are located a short distance from one another, connected by a roundabout in the middle of Sea Island Drive, the island's main ...
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Covington even boasted a Federal League baseball team, the Covington Blue Sox, during the 1913 season. The present-day circuit courthouse is located at the site of its former grounds, Federal Park, which is thought to have been the smallest stadium ever used by a professional baseball club.
The 40 shacks that were built on the dune, for and by park workers, are now fully equipped summer homes that front directly on the beach. Including the three cottages formerly used for customs officers, these 43 homes now comprise a gated community called the Crystal Beach Hill Association (formerly the Crystal Beach Hill Cottagers Organization).