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"City
Drug Store Fountain, Aransas Pass, Texas"
Postcard
courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
History
in a Pecan Shell
A timeline of significant events and milestones: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.
Aransas
Pass Landmarks/Attractions Photographer's
Note:
"Hwy 35 through town is Commercial Street and Hwy 361
is Goodnight Street. At this corner and Catty-Corner from HEB is this old hotel
shown. The view shown is the Goodnight Street side. Eating at the Bakery Cafe
(est. 1929) the waitress said she had been in the hotel 2nd floor and it is still
in the "rooms configuration" as when it was a hotel, but it has not been functioning
for many many years. The 1911 school you describe is now the school administration
building and close examination of the brick laying is interesting." -
Ken
Rudine, May 30, 2004 |
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Seaman's
Tower
Photo
courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 |
Seaman's
Tower interior
Photo
courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 |
The
2-story old brick hotel on Goodnight Street
Photo
courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 |
The
old School Building, now the school administrations building
Photo
courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 |
Shrimp
boats in Conn Brown Harbor
Photo
courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 |
Aransas
Pass Seawall
Photo
courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 |
Another
view of the Aransas Pass Seawall
Photo
courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 |
"Commercial
Street, Aransas Pass, Texas"
Postcard
courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
"Commercial
Street looking southwest
from Wilson Avenue, Aransas Pass, Texas"
Postcard
courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
Bakery
Cafe on Commercial St.
Photo
courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 | |
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