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Sabine Lake viewed from Pleasure Island in Port Arthur Sabine Lake is located on the Gulf Coastal Plain at the Texas–Louisiana border. The natural portions of the lake have a mean low-water depth of at most around 10 feet (3 m), though the ship channels have been dredged to a depth of more than 40 feet (12 m). [ 8 ] :
The Martin Luther King Bridge, of Port Arthur, Texas, is a cantilever bridge spanning the Sabine-Neches ship canal.It was opened in 1970 as the Gulfgate Bridge, [1] and allows Texas State Highway 82, a short (13 miles (21 km)) highway, to cross the canal and continue on Pleasure Island to the Texas-Louisiana border, connecting Port Arthur to Louisiana Highway 82.
Stilwell named the city Port Arthur after himself, [10] not the British Royal Navy Lieutenant who gave his name to Port Arthur, China. [11] Pleasure Island now separates the city from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The 18.5-mile (29.8 km) man-made island was created between 1899 and 1908 by the Corps of Engineers to support development of the ...
The new Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier was built 1,130 feet (340 m) out over the Gulf of Mexico waters. It had its "soft" opening on May 25, 2012. [6]The new pier complex is located where the original Pleasure Pier stood from 1943 until 1961, when it was destroyed by Hurricane Carla.
Louisiana Highway 82 (LA 82) is a state highway located in southern Louisiana.It runs 142.87 miles (229.93 km) in a general east–west direction from the Texas state line east of Port Arthur to the Vermilion–Lafayette parish line southwest of Youngsville.
Galveston-Port Bolivar Ferry: Bolivar Peninsula: 9.3: 15.0: Loop 108 north – Port Bolivar: 11.9: 19.2: Loop 108 south: 35.5: 57.1: SH 124 north: Gap in route : Jefferson McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge PR 69 – Sea Rim State Park: Sabine Pass: FM 3322 east – USCG: Port Arthur: bridge over Gulf Intracoastal Waterway: SH 82 – Houston ...
Construction on the Rainbow bridge, a cantilever truss bridge, began in 1936.It was contracted under the guidance of the Texas State Highway Department.Due to concerns by the upstream city of Beaumont about the bridge posing a threat to ship navigation, the Rainbow Bridge was built with a 680-foot (210 m) main span.
Early pleasure piers were of complete timber construction, as was with Margate which opened in 1824. The first iron and timber built pleasure pier Margate Jetty, opened in 1855. [7] Margate pier was wrecked by a storm in January 1978 and not repaired. [8] [7] The longest iron pleasure pier still remaining is the one at Southend. First opened as ...