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The property on
which the Charles Champion store stands dates to the War with Mexico.
The building is in use today as the Port Isabel Historical Museum.
Address is 317 Railroad Avenue, Port Isabel
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The
Charles Champion General Store. Sign Reads:
The (Key) of the Gulf - Charles Champion Proprietor
The Robert
Runyon Photograph Collection, Image RUN08733, Courtesy of The Center
for American History, The University of Texas at Austin |
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Postcard
courtesy Cruse Aviation |
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Champion store with lighthouse visible behind. |
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Postcard
courtesy Cruse Aviation |
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view of the building. The light colored patches on the facade are
paintings of various gulf fish species - a mural painted in 1906. |
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