Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Originally conceived as part of a City Beautiful civic center, Galveston relocated its new city hall from the old city market site to Rosenberg Avenue. The architecture firm of C. D. Hill & Company also designed a city hall for Dallas, employed Italian forms for its palazzo-type structure and its portico.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
This page was last edited on 28 September 2021, at 14:15 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Galveston (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.The community of 211.31 square miles (547.3 km 2), with a population of 53,695 at the 2020 census, [6] is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county.
The island and city of Galveston by far formed the most important population center. The city of Galveston was the republic's largest city and its center of commerce and culture. The Galveston County Bar Association, first formed in 1846, is the oldest in Texas. [7] Port Bolivar on the Bolivar Peninsula was a port of secondary importance.
Bayview is an area within unincorporated Galveston County, Texas, United States, that was formerly a more distinct community. [1] The Bayview, San Leon, and Bacliff communities form the "Bayshore" area. [2] The San Leon-Bacliff-Bayview Chamber of Commerce serves the area. [3] Like San Leon and Bacliff, many residents in Bayview commute to work ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
The Bolivar Peninsula forms a very narrow strip of land in Galveston County, separating the eastern part of Galveston Bay from the Gulf of Mexico. Its narrowest point is a quarter of a mile and is near the unincorporated community of Gilchrist, where the peninsula was divided by Rollover Pass. Bolivar Peninsula as census-designated place (CDP)