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Drug Store Fountain, Aransas Pass, Texas"
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Originally
the plan was for a deep-water port connected to San
Antonio by a railroad and turnpike. But with false starts, delays, the Civil
War and other setbacks, the port didn't become a reality until 1907 after the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged a deep channel and installed jetties.
Initial town lots were sold by lottery to people in the Midwest wanting to
relocate to the coast. The sale was a success, although the government needed
to adjust some of the rules.
1892: Methodists erect combination church
and school - post office opens
1910: City incorporates
1911: two-story
brick school is constructed
1912: Town celebrates shipment of 47,093 bales
of cotton in a two week period.
1916: Hurricane strikes
1919: Second Hurricane
strikes - seawall is constructed
1920: Corps of Engineers announces that Corpus
Christi had been chosen as major deep water port
1926: Corpus Christi opens
port facilities
After World
War II, the shrimp fleet moored in the area became the largest on the Gulf
coast.
The city remains one of the more popular vacation and fishing
destinations on the coast.
- © John Troesser
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- See Handbook of Texas Online:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/hfa6.html
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