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Constituted and organized in October 1918 as the 20th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) (C.A.C.) at Fort Crockett, Texas, but demobilized in November 1918.This was one of a number of Coast Artillery regiments mobilized to operate heavy and railway artillery on the Western Front in World War I, but the Armistice resulted in the dissolution of the 20th.
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.
Battery G assigned to Fort Crockett in HD Galveston, Texas, caretaking battery. [1] 1st Battalion HHB activated 8 January 1940 at Key West Barracks. [1] Battery G inactivated January 1940, personnel used to activate HHB 20th Coast Artillery at Fort Crockett. [1] 3rd Battalion HHB activated 15 January 1941 at Fort Barrancas. [1]
State Highway 6 (SH 6) runs from the Red River, the Texas–Oklahoma state line, to northwest of Galveston, where it is known as the Old Galveston Highway.In Sugar Land and Missouri City, it is known as Alvin-Sugarland Road and runs perpendicular to Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59 (I-69/US 59).
Fort Crockett (in Galveston) Fort McIntosh (in Laredo) Fort Sam Houston (in San Antonio) Fort D. A. Russell (near Marfa) Fort San Jacinto (in Galveston) Fort Travis (on Point Bolivar) Additionally, unfortified coastal artillery stations were established at key points on the Texas coast to prevent U-boats or aircraft from approaching Texas ports.
FM 2218 north – Richmond: Rosenberg: I-69 / US 59 – Victoria, Houston: I-69/US 59 exit 97: FM 1640 (Avenue I) US 90 Alt. east (Avenue H) / FM 723 north – Fulshear, Richmond, Historic Downtown District: South end of US 90 Alt. overlap: Spur 529 south – Wharton: US 90 Alt. west – Eagle Lake: North end of US 90 Alt. overlap: Spur 10 south
The Star Drug Store building dates to the late 1880s, when the property was owned by Olympia Freybe. C. J. Michaelis, a drug store owner, moved his business to 510 23rd Street in 1906.
Fort Crockett was a US Army artillery training center during World War I. Soldiers bound for France trained in the use of several types of artillery. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Fort Crockett housed the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) 3rd Attack Group (an ancestor to USAF's 3rd Wing). At this time, the 3rd Attack Group was the only ...