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Rockport
Featured Destinations |
Rockport
Maritime Museum
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, September 2007 |
| | "Between
Christmas and New Year, a stiff wind has blown about 1 or 2 feet of water out
of the bay exposing 'new ground'. | |
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| | Sunsets
are prettier too." - Ken
Rudine, December 28, 2005 | |
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History
in a Seashell
A timeline of important and significant events.
1865: Development of
Rockport began right after the Civil War as a cattle processing and shipping port.
1867: Col. George Ware Fulton, namesake of Fulton,
Texas, returns from Maryland
1870: Rockport incorporated as a town
1871: the year Aransas County was demarked from Refugio County
1880s: boat
building and fishing industries develop
1886: The San Antonio and Aransas
Pass Railway arrives
1890: The First National Bank of Aransas Pass opens -
town gets electric lights.
1914: Population 1,382
1919: Hurricane nearly
obliterates Rockport
1920s: Shrimp industry develops
1935: Harbors built
at Rockport and Fulton
WWII:
shipyard established in 1941 built submarine-chasing speedboats.
Present:
Fishing, shrimp and tourism remain the town's major economic factors. |
Rockport Chronicles
Rockport
Ships by Mike Cox
"All but forgotten today, in the early
months of World War II a
Rockport shipyard sent two dozen wooden-hulled subchasers down the ways to face
iron-plated German U-Boats in the North Atlantic..." |
| | A
bicycle fence
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, November 2005 | |
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Rockport
area Tourist InformationRockport-Fulton
Area Chamber of Commerce
404 Broadway Rockport, TX 78382
Phone: 361-729-6445
Toll-Free: 800-242-0071
Toll-Free: 800-826-6441
http://www.rockport-fulton.org/
Rockport
Hotels
Fulton
Hotels
Book Your Hotel Here & Save |
| | The
former Shorty Kline's Old Cafe. (Owners; Mr. & Mrs. Gloria and Herbert R.
"Shorty" Kline)
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, November 2005 | |
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| | Rockport
in the 1950s
Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
~txgenweb// postcards/Index.html
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| "Deer
run freely every night in a subdivision named Rockport Country Club Estates."
- Ken Rudine,
2009 | |
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