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2. Fort Travis Seashore Park - Wikipedia

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   Fort Travis Seashore Park is also the historic Fort Travis, a 60 acres (24 ha) military site with bunkers. The park is located in an area known as Bolivar Point , on the extreme west side of the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County , Texas .

3. Bolivar Peninsula, Texas - Wikipedia

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   Bolivar Peninsula (/ ˈ b ɒ l ɪ v ər / BOL-i-vər) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,769 at the 2020 census. The communities of Port Bolivar, Crystal Beach, Caplen, Gilchrist, and High Island are located on Bolivar Peninsula.

4. Crystal Beach, Texas - Wikipedia

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   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. It is a popular destination due to allowing camping and fires, as well as its fishing opportunities. Some fish in the surf, and others on ...

5. Gilchrist, Texas - Wikipedia

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   Gilchrist, Texas is an unincorporated residential community and beachfront resort along State Highway 87, located seventeen miles east of Bolivar Point in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States.

6. Fort Crockett - Wikipedia

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   Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.

7. Galveston Bay - Wikipedia

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   Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula are generally at the greatest risk. However, though the island and the peninsula provide some shielding, [42] [43] the bay shoreline still faces significant danger from storm surge. [44] Hurricane Ike, the most economically and environmentally destructive event on the bay since 1900, struck in 2008. [45]

8. Bolivar voters reject partnership with OTC, which involved a ...

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   Voters in the Bolivar school district rejected a partnership with Ozarks Technical Community College that would have increased residents' property tax levy in exchange for significantly lower tuition.

9. Galveston Island - Wikipedia

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   Galveston Island (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States, about 50 miles (80.5 km) southeast of Houston.The entire island, with the exception of Jamaica Beach, is within the city limits of the City of Galveston in Galveston County.