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"Stone
and Piling for Jetties at Aransas Pass, Texas"
Click on image to enlarge
Postcard courtesy of Dan
Whatley Collection |
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 |
Bakery Cafe on
Commercial St.
Photo courtesy of Ken
Rudine, May 2004 |
"Stone
and Piling for Jetties at Aransas Pass, Texas" postcard back
Postcard courtesy of Dan
Whatley Collection |
Stone and Piling
for Jetties at Aransas Pass, Texas
Train Eighteen
Miles Long
The Railroad records show that the contractor used 1954 cars of stone
on jetty work at Aransas Pass from last July 20 to November 24.
If this all could come on one train it would be wighteen miles long.
Burton & Danforth |
"Commercial
Street, Aransas Pass, Texas"
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
| "This picture
is hanging in the Aransas Pass City Hall, and it is a picture of their
downtown with the Bright and Early sign on it." - Michael Gibson |
"Bright
and Early" in downtown Aransas Pass
Courtesy Michael Gibson |
"Commercial
Street looking southwest
from Wilson Avenue, Aransas Pass, Texas"
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
"City Drug
Store Fountain, Aransas Pass, Texas"
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
Aransas
County 1920s map showing Aransas Pass
From Texas state map #10749
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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